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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