Day
4 Session 2 (Monday, 13 Oct. 2014, 11-12.30pm)
Communication
Skills Across The Curriculum
The lesson was about creating communication
among our students in English class. Katie mentioned at the start of the class,
students need to know the aim or expected outcome from each lesson so that they
will be involved or participated. With this in mind, the teacher needs to
create the ‘information gap’ so that students will have something to hold on to
from the lesson.
Form session 10 activity, we could see the organization
of the lesson incorporated all the 4 language skills which are reading, speaking,
writing and listening being systematically used in the activities. For us, this
is something interesting to try in future (with our respective classes). To
incorporate all these 4 language skills in one lesson sometimes can be very
challenging to a teacher, but Katie made it looked possible and it is actually
not that hard. We believe that so much preparation needed in order to make sure
this activity a success.
The question is, can Malaysian teachers actually
spend the amount of time in preparation for each lesson? Some challenges need
to be properly addressed first, such as, work load at the work place, the
number of students that reached almost 60 students in a communicative class
nowadays can mentally drained the teacher’s motivation to be well-prepared to
go into classes.
The jigsaw reading activity was very
interesting indeed. In fact we could see a lot of this method being used by
many of the trainers. We get the idea that this method can be utilized with
many different texts. Within this particular lesson, we got to see how
information gap was created and it actually made all of us participated in this
lesson as individual, and as group members too.
Jigsaw reading activity can enhance
students’ empowerment as the teacher does not have to be so involved in the
class. The students themselves will cognitively decide the language needed to
be used.
Ruzlinda Mustaffa (Tuanku Sultanah Bahiyah
Polytechnic)
& Norazizah Abd Aziz (Seberang Perai Polytechnic)
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