Reflection of Week 3

I feel that the Week 3 is harder than the previous ones. But it is no problem because it is our struggle to do and a challenge to face. Do you agree? Let me check one by one. Firstly, I have done a discussion on Aural/Oral Skill Building. I can say that this skill building is very important to practice in our classroom in order our student can achieve their competence of listening or speaking. Listening is a receptive skill that everybody does every time while speaking is the next skill as the productive skill that someone produces every day. I read the article written by Juila Gong that explains how to employ CALL in teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills. It is very impressive and interesting when we are successful in integrating CALL to listening or speaking class. CALL as one of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is very useful for teachers and learners to learn a second/foreign language because this medium can facilitate them to learn the language independently. CALL is one of teachers' and learners' friends in teaching and learning a language.

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The second job I did is creating a Delicious page. It is a very delicious web I know, because we can bookmark many important links as our daily academic menu. Now I have the URL of my Delicious.com, here it is: https://delicious.com/erhamadina. Please visit it. I bookmarked some links related to Translation Studies, based on my own major, such as Translator Service, Translate tools, and Journals.

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Thirdly, I have done Project Task 2 by doing a review of the project article written by Prem Bahadur Phyak from Department of English  Education, University Campus Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He was successful in motivating his students to do their project of academic writing and research skills. Though his class was a very large class that contains 300 students in two sections, he managed his class successfully by using one-way lectures technique. He was also successful in facilitating his students to use websites, though it was a very low connection there. He asked his students to create a blog for interactive discussions and sent emails about some references and resources to his students. He also organized his class to like a group discussion as an effective technique to apply in a large class. What I like from him are his ways of formulating the learning objectives using the ABCD model, responding and reflecting what he had found in his study into some detail findings of usefulness of technology for learning and teaching, particularly teaching Academic Writing and Research skills in his classroom.

Finally I say that what I did in the Week 3 is more impressive but harder. Thank you for your attention. Best regards, Rudi Hartono.