Learning log 12

Today, I was absent and I asked my friend for the lesson. They told me about how to add game and video in my CALL. After that, they told me how to add audio in my CALL and how to show photo when we point mouse around the words or sentences. Moreover, they told me how to play music when we point mouse around words, sentences, or photos.

Learning log 11

Today, teacher taught me how to construct the test and exit page by Adobe Captivate 8. There are five types of test in this program; multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and true or false. First, multiple choice test, I provided the choices and click in front of the right answer. Next, fill in the blank test, I also had to provide the right answer that is possible way that student will answer. Moreover, I learnt about setting the program appropriately to make my lesson better. So, it made me have more understanding clearly. I felt very funny.

Learning log 10

This week, I learnt about program Adobe Captivate 8. Teacher taught me how to create my project by using Adobe Captivate 8. I thought it look like PowerPoint, and easy to create my project. Teacher introduced about basic tool. There are main menu, control bottom, panel group, filmstrip. Then, I created my project by added blank project and chose the size 1024*768. I could insert picture, and add the text caption. Teacher taught me the way to put student's name in my CALL. Then, I learnt how to make the test in this program and link flame into another flame when we click back, previous, home, or any button that you want to link. Moreover, this program is helpful to me and the students. It can make us more learning and having motivation to learn.

Learning Log 9

This week I learnt about Computer Assisted Language Learning and English Language Teaching in Thailand: Overview. It was about applying CALL in Thailand. The main purpose was to improve or develop the learner's competence. So, the teachers had to pay attention to improve ELT (English language teaching) in Thailand. Moreover, I learnt about how to use Adobe Captivate 8 because we use this program to build our CALL next class.

Learning Log 8

This week, I learnt about Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). CALL refer to "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning". CALL aims to find ways for using computers for the purpose of teaching and learning the language. After that, I learned about kinds of CAI. They were seven kinds.

Tutorial instruction was the program that gave the content to students in text, picture, audio, and all of them. After that, students had to answer the questions and they would have a feedback when the finished the task.

 Drills and practice was the program that had only questions or problems to the students to solve them.

Simulation was the program that simulate situation from the truth to practise skills to the students.

Instructional games was the program that encourage students to learn the lesson.

Discovery was the program that wanted students learned from their experience.

Problem-solving was the program that wanted students to think and decide to do something.

Tests was the program that tested the student's knowledge.

Good point of CALL

ü Time save

ü It more interesting

ü Students can learn whenever/wherever

ü computer can keep a lot of information

Bad point of CALL

ü Have to spend time to design.

Learning Log 7

This week, the teacher checked our pair work about parallel concordance in Thai language. I learnt about “false friend”. It is words in two languages (or letters in two alphabets) that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning. For example

In English "smart" means เท่ห์

In Thai "smart" means ฉลาด

Moreover, this day we presented the article about Applying Innovative Spirit to Multimedia Foreign Language Teaching. As a newly-emerged modern foreign language teaching form, multimedia foreign language teaching waits for the test of time. Without any problem in itself, its success depends on whether language teachers are initiative or not, whether they can fully exert the advantages of multimedia teaching to find and solve problems. As long as they deepen their research, sum up experiences and improve teaching methods constantly, multimedia will bring about more positive changes to foreign language teaching and therefore greater achievements will be made in our foreign language teaching.

Learning Log 6

       

       This week, I learnt about how to use antconc and made my special corpus named desserts. The teacher taught me to give the topic of the information that I collected. I searched some words in my antconc and it showed me concordances.  Moreover, I could learn both left and right side from the word I searched. Then, teacher taught me to use English-Thai parallel corpora online from the link http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~ling/ParaConc/