Reflection Journal 5

1. What makes us listen? How can we improve our listenng skills?
2. Discuss the following terms regarding listening skills:Four Models, Bottom-up vs. Top-down, Listening comprehension activities, Self-Access
3. Discuss three material development principles for listening and how multimedia can assist teachers to design listening activities that meet these principles.


→ Well, I think that we can improve our listening skills by every day listening. I mean that if we play CNN news audio file and we do other things, it can be helpful for our listening skills. I experienced that case when I'm middle school and in elementary school.

Reflection Journal 4

1. Discuss what the chapter says about the following terms:segmental vs suprasegmental, description anlaysis, controlled, guided, vs. communicative practicecontextualized minimal pair, kinesthetic activites
2. we do not teach pronunciation explicitly in English class. Do you agree (disagree) on teaching pronunciation explicitly in class? Why(why not)?
3. How do multimedia assist teaching pronunciation? Discuss what you experienced.

→ I agree that we do not teach pronunciation explicitly in English class. In class, there are many students and teacher can't pay attention to each students. So if one student pronunciate wron, but teacher won't know the student who pronunciate wrong. So, In current classroom, Explicitly teaching about pronunciation is impossible.

However, multimedia can be helpful in this way of teaching pronunciation. Students can listen accurate pronunciation of word which students didn't know. Therefore, students can learn from multimedia.

Refelection Journal 3

1. Discuss what the chapter says about the following terms:practical writing tasks, emotive writing tasks, school-oriented writing tasks, dialogue journal
2. How do you think errors in writing should be corrected? What is your opinion? what does this book say?
3. How does technology help L2 writing? what tools are there? what supports do you expect from the followings?
dictionary, email, discussion board, software, text resources, other references.

→ I think that errors in writing should be corrected. In writing, we do several mistakes in writing. And I observed many of these errors. Then, I found that if errors aren't modified, that errors tended to be show up in the same context. So, errors in writing should be corrected. But, too much correction are even harmful, because it can lower the learner's motivation. So appropriate corrections of errors are essential.

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crossword puzzle

Reflection Journal 2

1. Discuss the following terms regarding vocabulary learning: Guessing meaning, word association, collocation, mnemonics,
2. Review other vocabulary teaching approaches. What do you think the most essential components in teaching words
3. Review the Online word games below by clicking each links and discuss what they are and how they can be used:
crossword puzzle, hangman, matching, word search, scrambled words From ITESLJ's Games for ESL Students
Eclipse Crossword Maker


→ I think the most essential part of vocabulary teaching is mnemnics. Though, word association, collocation are important for language ability, I think that anyway we must memory words and its meanings. Mnemonics can help us to remember the words' meaning effectively and even interestingly. Especially me, I think some mnemonics are interesting skills. So Mnemonics are the most important part in vocabulary teaching.

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Reflection Journal 1

1. Discuss activities for better texts comprehension.
2. Discuss what other approaches are suggested in reading than text comprehension(=intensive reading).
3. In what way can multimedia assist adult learners' reading? (Adults means older than elementary school students

→ 1. In my point of view, quantity of reading will be helpful for texts comprehension.

Of course, the materials that are not appropriate for readers can be harmful to reader's

understandig. But in socio-psycholinguistic approach, the familiar materials are more

useful to readers. I agree, too. I think that the materials we already have read can easily

comprehended to readers. So, Quantity of reading is also helpful.

3. Multimedia can be useful for adult learner's reading by providing sufficient reading

materials. As I put emphasis on the quantity of reading, various reading materials are

very important. Multimedia ( like Internet ) can provide lots of reading materials about any

levels. So It is important.

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid.[1] The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell living just long enough (five months) to see her first and only novel become a success.

A jack-o'-lantern (sometimes also spelled Jack O'Lantern) is typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved onto the outside surface, and the lid replaced. At night, a light is placed inside to illuminate the effect. Jack o'lanterns can often be seen in houses and shops in most western countries during Halloween.

A hamper is a primarily British term for a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.
In America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle for dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper".
In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.

a small mirror in a motor vehicle for checking one's appearance, esp. on the inside of a sun visor