REFLECTION 6 - 11th of December

This week, firstly we listened to our classmates talking about including new technologies to improve our pupils' pronunciation, and secondly we were taught to edit a wiki.

First of all, I will point out some interesting facts about the article called "Podcasting: and effective tool for honing language students' pronunciation?" 

The article said that while some teachers feel there is often not enough class time to practice pronunciation, including intonation or prosody, others may not enjoy nor know how to teach pronunciation, or they may believe that students simply find it boring.

But the thing is that pronunciation plays a significant role in comprehensibility and podcasting may offer a possible option for practicing speaking skills outside of class. Podcasts are easy-to-create audio files that can be uploaded to the Internet and to which users can subscribe.

Technology has been used in many ways to improve students’ pronunciation and using podcasting in contextualized language learning can be useful in that it allows teachers to contextualize pronunciation and create meaningful tasks, rather than simply have students repeat and practice lists of words or sounds.

In this section, I will talk about the wikis. I have to say that I had never created or participated in the edition of a wiki before. 

I think it is a useful tool for collaborative writing in primary school so that learners can recieve for example spelling feedback from their classmates, students can be more motivated because that "piece of paper" can be seen from their house, and the teacher can devise interesting ideas for writing so that pupils can adquire a taste for it.

We had the chance to edit and create a story which had to start and finish with a sentence given by the teacher. But I am sure there are plenty of ideas so as to write in a wiki.

So I would like to find interesting and creative ideas to carry out with my future pupils.