3nd week

Third week

This week is the third week. For this week we need to bring Susan Halliwell’s book entitled ‘Teaching English in the Primary Classroom’. Pn Foziah divides us into groups. We have to discuss the topic in the book. There are 6 characteristics, skills and instincts and they are;

·         Children’s ability to grasp meaning

·         Children’s creative use of limited language resources

·         Children’s capacity of indirect learning

·         Children’s instinct for play and fun

·         The role of imitation

·         The instinct for interaction

I am in group number 3, and we have to discuss the third topic, and that is children’s capacity of indirect learning. In this topic, we have to discuss what kind of teaching materials that can be assumed as indirect learning, as the pupils can learn effectively through indirect learning. Therefore, we need to find something informal such as what kinds of games that can be part of teaching and learning process. We think of what topic they will learn and what example of the games that suit to the topic. For instance they learn about noun. So we find a guessing game that can play noun, such as hang man. After that, we need to do the power point slide show and present. We are the last group to present. The next 3 groups need to present theirs on the next week.

Apart from that, we have been told about assignment 2. For this assignment we have to find teaching aids such as video clip, flash cards, songs based on the KBSR syllabus.