After reading the information about (A National Virtual Language Lab) I was amazed especially because it focuses on oral and aural skills and I consider that we as teachers must work a lot developing these skills, so I took a look about the page and I was so motivated to create an account as a new member, so I did it also because it is free; however, I cannot attend to any course yet because I do not have the invitation.
After signing up I surfed by the different pages and I put special emphasis in the “learn central” page on which we can find more information about past and future webinars and invitations for them. On the other hand this page provides a page about “language teachers´ conferences” and I consider that this is benefit to all of the English teachers around the world because we can review the place, the topic, the speaker and if we are interested and of course if it is economically possible, we can attend to it.
The use of this tool might change the way I teach by means of the webinars, because as a new engine I can say to my students to attend them and it might also change the way that my students learn, because they do not have experience attending webinars yet and they will be very expected to them, moreover this will make the students to think critically about how to create their own webinars giving them an autonomous learning; nonetheless, the problem may be the students´ economical situation, because as I mentioned before not all of them have a computer and it is necessary to have at least 70 cents for paying one hour in a coffee internet, so probably the solution may be to construct webinars en groups? What do you think about this?
Best;
Maggie
Hi Maggie,
ResponderEliminarThank you SO much for sharing your experience. It's wonderful to use ANVILL in teaching Oral/aural skills. However, there might be some constraints. As you mentioned almost of the students do not have computer in my context too.
With warm greetings!
Harimaya
Dear Harimaya,
ResponderEliminarThanks for posting in my blog, I will do the same with yours, according what you say I think that this is a problem around the world, so each country has its own economical problems; however we are helping a little with this, because we are attending to a granted course and we are doing our best, that is a good thing that we as teachers are doing.
All my best;
Maggie