My Th-warty,yet Thickset Third Week

Hello all!

This week was more exciting and busy. Days are getting busier and we have been molded steadily. It's really worthy to be one of the participants.

In this week, I went through three different new learning. Among them, the novel experience was building a link repertoire: delicious.com/yubarajnp. We can store our favourite websites along with appropriate tags. Under project exposure,  I went through the final project report for the 'TEACH South Africa Programme' prepared by Runganayagie Nalini Reddy,USAID Southern Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. 

Alike to the common project tasks, she also shares the function of Oregon step-wise project task that it gradually develops the content and skills base of the participants while simultaneously working on developing the project plan for implementation and review (if possible) and reporting. As the course aimed, it gave a sort of mind-mapping for me for my future project task,too.


The third task I did was discussion-oral/aural skill building.This week, I went through the first article 'Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials' by Lindsay Miller on http://www.elthillside.com/up/files/Article4.doc , which was first appeared in the March/April 2003 issue of ESL Magazine. Here Miller draws the background of less researches on listening aspect in the past as compared to speaking or reading/writing given that it is the language skill most often used in everyday life. According to him ,the precise reasons for not carrying out researches are;more than forty percent of our daily communication time is spent on listening, thirty-five percent on speaking, sixteen percent on reading, and only nine percent on writing.
Later, he stresses on the importance of use of authentic materials in listening classes which are not meant for just carrying out the activities or used just for testing purposes, rather should aim at putting the learners at ease. Here the learners are aimed at looking for other pieces of information besides learning the content for testing purpose.

I scanned through two websites :
1. http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu
2. http://www.soundsofenglish.org

They are useful for teaching sounds of English for beginners and other listening activities for them later.

That's all.


Young & Yummy Yubaraj (यूवक युबराज न्यौपाने)
 काठमाडौँ ,नेपाल

                   Training participants in a humanistic game 'Scuba-duba' in my 'Internship' course