Great Love of Language Teaching

This term we have had a different experience with our teacher is Fatma Toköz Göktepe in our Instructional Technology course. First of all, I owe dear Fatma Toköz Göktepe a debt of gratitude for changing my vision about how to use technology in classrooms. Let's talk about the class... It is obvious that the use of technology in classrooms especially for Turkey is restricted to some certain issues. Teachers generally use it for making easier their jobs but what about creativity? There are limitless advantages os technology but teachers can not see from different point of view to benefit from these advantages. We live in 21st century but how many of us can use technology inspiredly? We have many chances to create different methods, strategies, tools, activities for our lovely students. In this course, I have learned lots of things for making my teaching easier, entertaining and effective. I have realized that I hadn't been aware of educational blogs and we...

Hi everyone! Today I tell you about my  Storytelling.  Last week, I prepared a story by using storybird about adventure. In this process, I wrote something by using pictures about adventure. It was very enjoyable. CONTRUBITION TO ELT This work is useful and benefit for ELT because I think,the more we get involved in a work, the more we learn. This enables students to make an effort to learn something and also, they learn about  with fun. And here my story! While reading, you will enjoy and be shocked. Let's see what will happen in my story! TEAM SUPER DYLAN AND HAUNTED HOUSE Dylan is 6 years old and he wants to be a super hero and a rock star. He knows how to play a guitar. His father teaches him how to play a guitar. Dylan also has a cat. Its name is Cotton. He plays with Cotton ever day. He learns karate because he should know how to fight if he wants to be a super hero.His best friend' name is James and he loves eating doughnut...

In this post, I share my experience in using the Kahoot for teaching language courses in English. Now, I want to explain what is quizlet? Quizlet is a free website that lets you make flash cards indivually or with a group. The cards can then be shared, reviewed online in a variety of ways, or printed for offline use. The site allow a groups to be created, allowing students to work and communicative within their group. How to create Quizlet? Create a new user account at www.quizlet.com. Click on Start Studying or Make Flascards to create a new flashcard set. Enter the Title, subject and desciption. Set access levels for User and Editors. Users can view the simply view the flashcards and editors can edit. Insert the terms and correspond ending definitions. Click on the ''+'' to add additional cards, and on ''-'' to delete a card. When you are finished, click on Create Set. There are some advantages of Quizlet. For example...

In this post, I share my experience in using the Kahoot for teaching language courses in English. It is very enjoyable and attractive active. Firstly, I want to explain what is kahoot? A game based classroom response system  Free, web based, device independent. Teaching create quizzez with multi-choice up to 4 answers. Questions displayed on projector. Students gain points for correct questions and speed of response. The web program, Kahoot, is a game based response platform. This user friendly website gives  teachers the ability to create quizzez and surveys about any subject area. The website even tracks  student achievement by looking at what the student did during the Kahoot, as well as overall  achievement while logged in. Also, there are many advantages to using Kahoot in the classroom that  benefit both teacher and student. Student engagement with this game is high. The students enjoy  playing this g...

In this post, I share my experience in using the Hot Potatoes for teaching language courses in English with different levels. Hot Potatoes is probably the most popular authoring software among language teachers. It is produced by Half-Baked Software. Hot Potatoes provides you with a user-friendly interface which takes the hard work out of producing exercise, you simply type list of words you want to include in your crossword and the program makes a grad accommodating all those words. There are five basic programs in the Hot Potatoes: 1.The JQuiz program: creates question-based quizzes. Questions can be of four different types, including multiple-choice and short-answer. Specific feedback can be provided both for right answers and predicted wrong answers or distracters. 2.The JCloze program:  creates gap-fill exercises. Unlimited correct answers can be specified for each gap and the students can ask for a hint and see a letter of the correct answer. The program ...

I want to start with a question to my post: What do you know 21th century education?  As the time passes, the place we live in, the facilities we use, the language we speak, the environment we are in, and surely the needs of the human beings are changing and develoing because the education is one of the most important needs of the human beings, necessarily the education system are developing and changing. Nobody can expect the features of several decades/centuries ago's education. Am I wrong? If the people,the world and the time changing, education systems are also be getting changed. As the technology gets into our lives, its place in the education getting more and more. Comparing to several years ago we can say that technology has an important role in our education. With technology education become more easier and more understandable for students most of the times. The changes come out in the last century bring along the innovation about knowledge, skills, attitudes and req...

Hi everyone! In this post, I want to mention about '' how to make a lesson plan''. The teacher should prepare a lesson plan before the class. As a teacher candidate, I learned how to make a lesson plan. Now, I will share with you. Of course, we need some stages to make a lesson plan. These are; Here, it's an example of the lesson plan

Hi everyone! In this post, I want to mention about my research. My topic is ''attending to the learner''. It includes how the teacher deals with him students'. I observed real classroom. I learned lots of thing about attending to the learner. My research includes introduction, act, observation, reflection and references. 1.Introduction In this study observation how the teachers’ attending behaviors affect the students’ learning was examined in an actual classroom that I attended in Tarsus Fatih Anatolian High School, Tarsus, in total 5 times on every Wednesday between November and December in 2017. The class that I attended was 10G. The lesson was English and the students’ level was generally pre-intermediate;however, there were some students whose level was between pre-intermediate and elementary. The teacher’s name was Özgür Şanlısoy who was very helpful to the students and cheerful in the classroom. He was also very friendly to me when I requested to join ...