Nguyet Anh's Weekly Reflection

In this module, our class learned about two distinct concepts: ABCD learning objectives and Web searching , both of which are of great value to my teaching and learning. With regard to the former, the four letters A, B, C, D stand for Audience, Behavior, Condition, and Degree, respectively. To write learning objectives following the ABCD framework, teachers need to answer four questions corresponding to the above components, including “Who is the objective written for?” , “What action or behavior should be demonstrated by the learner?” , “Under what circumstances or conditions will the behavior be performed?” , and “To what level of proficiency or standard is the behavior expected to be performed?” . Personally, I hold that the ABCD model is crucial for writing clear and specific learning objectives that are both observable and measurable. Ambiguous action verbs such as “understand” and “learn” are thus unacceptable and should be avoided in this model. However, writing an accurate A...

A blog (short for weblog ) is defined as “a website where an individual person, or people representing an organization, write regularly about recent events or topics that interest them, usually with photos and links to other websites that they find interesting” (Oxford University Press, n.d.).  There are a number of reasons why blogging has become increasingly popular as an English language teaching tool over the past few decades. According to Sattar (2015), a blog serves as a collaborative platform where students, as bloggers, can actively construct their own knowledge through interactions with teachers and friends, which is considered a more “at-home” and “comfortable” learning environment for students. Blogging is, therefore, an important contributor to increased active participation among quieter students. Additionally, Selami (2014) concluded that blogging does exert favorable impacts on students’ writing skills. Normally, teachers are the only ones to receive, read, and give ...

Hello everyone. I am Nguyet Anh, a member of class PG43. Welcome all of you to my reflective journal, where I do weekly reflections for the course Internet in Language Teaching.