Technology helps us to
be easier explaining our English material. Moreover, there are some skills that
has to be mastered when learning English, they are listening, reading, writing
and speaking. Those skills are must to be taught in the class. So, if we want
to focus on writing skill, we will also need the other three skills. For me, to
apply those skills on the class activities is little bit difficult and not all
of students can do it well.
Then, how to solve that case? As a future English
teacher who lives in a modern era, we are required to be able to operate the
technology and many tools in the internet. Why? It is because in education
nowadays using technology when do the teaching and learning process. Therefore,
as a teacher, we must very creative to design our media, strategies, teaching
methods, and so on.
If the teacher already
creative, the students will pay more attention on the explanation about the
material. Just take an example about teaching reading. Actually, students are
not really enthusiastic when they are asked to read passages and then they have
to answer it. It is very boring for them. One of the solutions for teaching
reading creatively is by using comics that relates with the material. Maybe the
teacher asked them to make a comic in a group work, or maybe they are asked to
do the role play based on the comics, and so on. There are a lot of activities
for reading that using comics.
But before I talk about
comic further, I will talk about teaching reading using technology. Enjoy your
reading guys :D
When teaching any skills
will need some approaches to be done, reading for example. When teaching
reading will need some approaches like :
- Phonics Approach
- Look-Say
- Choral reading
- Reading aloud
- Shared reading
- Reader’s theater
- Sustained silent reading
- The language experience approach
That approaches can be
done by a help from technology. So, teacher can integrate the teaching and
learning process with technology. So, teaching reading using technology is very
helpful. Below are some tools that can be use to teach reading.
- Natural Reader - Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. Natural reader supports over 20 languages with over 50 voices, including 5 varieties of English.
- Word game - Word Game is a game in which players compete in forming, thinking of, or guessing words according to a set of rules.
- Interactive reading or here - Interactive reading is where your students can read while look at the video. So it can give students some ideas or maybe about the meaning of the words based on the video
- Phonic reading - The text is having sound, which make the auditory learners easier to understand the content of the text
It is very different
right between papers based reading and the interactive tools above? Then what
do you think? Just give a comment on the comment box :D
For the following
website you can even find more collection of web-based reading activities that
can be easily and freely accessed. Just click the picture below.
And what shall we do if
we want to create our own web based interactive reading activities? The tool by
half-baked software offers the possibility for you to do so. Check this:
Cloze Reading Activity made with HotPotatoes
Hot Potatoes is an easy
to use authoring tools that can be used to create different web-based learning
activities. One of them is the CLOZE READING activities as shown in the link
above. You can also use it to create a matching activity, crossword, multiple
choice activities etc.
Another way to promote
reading activity is by having students to read comics. By reading comics
students will get visual references as well as the feeling of relax and thus
makes the reading activity more enjoyable. The following website talks about
using comics to promote students literacy skills:
Then how we can easily
create our own comics for reading exercise /writing exercise purposes? We have
a lot of ready to use tools actually, available on the internet. By using these
comic creating tools we can actually help students to have both reading and
writing exercises. So check the links below:
1. Toondoo
2. Chogger
3. Pixton
Why choosing Pixton? It is because on that tool the template has been prepared
and we only select what type that we want to make.
Do you guys ever try
such kind of the tools that already mention above? Just share your experience
on the comment box. Thank you…..
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