Saturday, 1 March 2008

Reflection for Week 5

I do agree that students feel much relax to communicate with others by using the computers. In fact, many students hesitant to talk with friends or answer questions in English face to face. The reason is they afraid of making mistakes by using English. However, grammar is not compulsory rule that people concern when communicating with others by using computers. Therefore, when the students use English through computers to communicate with others, they do not need to concern the grammar. Therefore, they can freely to express themselves. It is an advantage to encourage students to use English.

However, there are some limitions when we apply it in our daily teaching. Self-discipline is one of the constrains. It is not easy for young learners to use computers only for doing the school projects. They may brouse other things and talk to each other out of the topics of the projects. In addition, the language ability of them may be affected by communicating with others through computers. It is becasue they do not concern grammar when talking to their friends. In this case, the students cannot raise their language ability and they cannot build up their confidence in using English when communicating with others face to face.

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