Well.. That's the End!!

In the past 2 years, two of my colleagues were dealing and talking about some tasks that they should do until a certain time and they seemed really interested. While they were sharing what they learnt, I was impressed by the way they found solutions to different classroom problems, the way they enriched activities and brought variety into classroom. It was that moment I had decided participating in this course. Luckily I was chosen for this course.

At first, things, tasks, assignments and two post policies etc were a bit confusing. Even, I forgot to post answers to other blogs in the first two weeks. Allocating time for the readings was also challenging as I as also busy with teaching 40 hours a week both for day and night classes, writing my thesis and studying French for Phd. However, the more I read the more interested in the course I became. I noticed that many of the problems in my mind had their own solutions and when technology was integrated into classroom activities, things were becoming easier. For example, teaching large classes is an important issue for many teachers of English Language. Things such as Think-Pair-Square, ConcepTest were really helpful. Additionally, learning online tools such as ANVILL, Project Based Learning together with WebQuests, Multiple Intelligences, issues such as learner autonomy etc, all these have helped me to enrich my perspective in language teaching.

I want to thank everybody who helped me here, in this course, by suggesting new ideas which I would never think myself, by making comments to my posts, to my peer editors for my project and especially to Robert for his motivating feedback and generous help in guiding me in my way through this course.

Aveka

Week 9

Searching, finding articles or sending articles to journals is what we do in our everyday life in academic world. Especially, we all have to follow the journals in order to keep up with the recent developments in or fields. In my country there is a common belief among ELT scholars that they are the ones who send articles to US or UK journals and they claim they do not get a response from the editors or the answer comes too late. Or, some claim that their articles are not published because of prejudice. This week it was my luck that I found answers to those questions by asking Koller and Glass. Thanks Robert for giving us this chance! I wonder if it is possible to contact them when we search for a special thing or before sending an article! 

The second issue was Multiple Intelligences which I pay special attention to. Many people in my country do not receive the necessary education based on their  intelligence and learning style. In fact, they do not receive an intelligent test at all. Many go on their education with their hidden talents. In a class dominated by logical/mathematical dominant students, the musical dominated students will be seen as unable to learn both by the teacher and the other learners. So, teachers should be careful about exploring the students' learning styles and intelligences and should give them a chance to explore their  capacity also. If there are students  with different learning styles, the teacher can use different web sites which address students' needs such as pictures, videos, writing  or musically enriched sites for English learning.

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