Reflection on Week 3

It is good to treat English as a tool rather than a language. The projects encourage students use English to make webpage, send emails, research and so on. They have to use English to communicate with others, look for information and prepare their own material. They acquire English from the process.

Students’ work will be published on the web which motivate the kids do their work in a purposeful way. In the past, their ideas might only be seen by their teachers, parents or friends. Now, their work will be showed in public area. Also, they can exchange their ideas through email exchange programs. That’s a great opportunity of using English in a realistic situation.

However, we have to consider the amount of English they used during the activities. The kids may just use their first language to communicate with their classmates outside the computer world. They just use keyboard to translate their work.

At the same time, some of the kids may spend time on playing games on the NET. It is difficult to monitor them in the virtual area. They always claim that they are doing projects. This is the major reason of time consuming when doing project in an electronic way.