MODULE 07: FINAL PROJECT REFLECTION

In the final project, our team has to choose one to two technologies to apply in my classroom to solve a specific problem. We have chosen a class of five undergraduate students to implement our selected technology.

Students in this class have issues mostly with speaking skills, specifically, pronunciation, idea organization as well as the lack of confidence and learning autonomy. Within only six lessons for three weeks, we chose applying "Flipgrid" to deal with students' learning autonomy in practicing pronunciation. 

After a few lessons, I realized some of the problems mainly caused by learners' reluctance to speak and procrastination in doing homework and classroom activities. Though I can observe positive changes happening in the last two lessons, these problems are still unavoidable.

If I had a chance to reorganize my lessons, I would definitely provide my students with more comprehensive instructions, maybe a demo for using Flipgrid as a tool to enhance pronunciation skills and learning autonomy. In addition, I would have my students record videos during class time for a few times before assigning these tasks as their homework so that students could have time to get familiar with both the activities and the technology. Moreover, some one-to-one guidance should be offered in circumstances that learners are not able to do the tasks themselves. 

Despite difficulties and challenges during six lessons, I have learnt a lot about how I can utilize a technology to solve my students' problem. I believe that if I had more time, this six-lesson course would be much more successful and helpful. 

In short, I really appreciate this course- "Internet in Language Teaching" I am studying now, which has given me a precious opportunity for me to apply what I learnt in real-life situation.

This is also my last blog about this course. I hope to see my audience in near future for more intriguing blogs!!!


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