Students Blog ↔ Teachers Blog

↠ S TUDENTS B LOG ↔ T EACHERS B LOG ↞ Welcome to our blog!  Blogging is a creative way to express yourself, and it is therefore not difficult to imagine why many young adolescents are finding blogging humoristic and interesting. In this century, using technology is inevitable, and at the same time it is an important skill to acquire, and it also gives you the opportunity to learn about digital citizenship. Furthermore, blogging is not perceived as being a typical task in the classroom, and therefore we find it even more essential to include this as a part of an everyday classroom exercise. Moreover, blogging can be an ideal way to strengthen and improve the students four skills; listening, writing, speaking and reading.  W hy is it called  S TUDENTS  B LOG  ↔  T EACHERS  B LOG   ? The name of the blog is formed because teachers and students effect each other in every way; what the teacher does, the students do, and what the student...

R e a d i n g is one of the most difficult skills to improve, but is necessary for EFL students. Therefore teachers need to know the right strategies. Here are some strategies teachers can use using a blog!👇👇👇 1. Choosing Always let students choose the topic! It is very important for them to have an interest for what they are reading; Otherwise they will find it boring and just give up. Teachers can pick some articles or stories from online which are suitable for them and put the links on a blog. Teachers can post a blog for each reading and have an instruction for it. If you want to read more about the strategies...↓ Successful Strategies for Teaching Reading to Middle Grades English Language Learners:  http://www.amle.org/BrowsebyTopic/WhatsNew/WNDet.aspx?ArtMID=888&ArticleID=283 Improving Reading Skills Through Effective Reading Strategies:  http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042813001146/1-s2.0-S1877042813001146-main.pdf?_tid=5e57fde6-193b-11e7-9443-00000aab0f0...

WRITING Writing allows you to express your ideas !👌 Such as thoughts, stories, experiences, brainstorming, making notes and mind-mapping as pre-writing. ▶ Creativity   Writing gives you a chance to work both individuals and within a group . Writing is an useful skill in a classroom but also outside of classroom in a long term. According to Krashen`s 5hypotheses.... ☆Acquisition and leaning☆Monitor☆The natural order☆Comprehensive input☆Affective filter   These are the most important tips for writing ! So What about if we let students practice witting on their own blogs!? First , blogging is fun! 💓😆💪 It allows you to accesses to many materials such as images, videos, emoji, color, different font and so on. The way you express your ideas in writing can be much more creative in blogging. Blogging increase student`s motivation for writing. 👏 Second, blogging can be both individual and group work. So, Students can develop their ...

SPEAK! SPEAK! SPEAK!😁😁 It is well known that technology has become the most essential part in our everyday lives. Many teachers find it useful to use technology to improve the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) within their classrooms. When it comes to teach English to young learners, we as teachers have to take into consideration that nowadays, young learners l ike to live and learn in everyday contact with the new trends of technology, therefore teachers need to be aware and well trained in the use of them. During many years, teaching English as a second language was mostly on “Grammar - Based”. Teachers were focusing mainly on reading and writing skills, however we believe that one of the most prominent skills within teaching English as a second language is “Speaking”. It's important to help our students to improve their speaking skills in order to communicate and express their ideas with others in the target language. We can not have commun...

Conclusion The purpose of teaching four skills should enhance pupil's communicative skill, because by enhancing communicative skills, pupils would be able to express themselves and learn others cultural and social rules within plenty communicative situations. Furthermore, teaching four skills should take place within expressive communication, which is through blogging, rather than pure memorization, having this as a goal, diverse practices mentioned in previous blogs can provide considerable options and opportunities to students in enhancing basic interactive, cooperative and communicative skills necessary in and out of classroom. Especially through blogging, students easily learn and develop these four skills without recognizing it as studying. However, students need to know how to use it properly because it can also have an negative effect on them. Teachers can show videoclips and explain how dangerous these social media can be to students before start using them. It...