The Seventh Week Project Progresses...

To talk about my project implementation progress, my webquest creation is almost in the final stage. Since I have raised the difficulty of my Ss in ‘Listening & Speaking’ skills as compared to ‘Reading & Writing’, my intervention is obviously onto the earlier lg skills. I have begun implementing the interactive mode of this project right from the class. To begin with, Ss were asked to listen to English news broadcast on international radios. Some of them replied that they hardly comprehended the content since it was very new, from adjustment POV, accent to them. Few told me it is the award conferring program of OSCAR. Some of their favorite films are in nomination, e.g. Skyfall. Since they hardly named other films, it proved that they are unable to show keen interest on their own hobby because of lacking foundational listening skills, though they can work up with speaking to some extent.

I have been reviewing two projects besides the earlier reviewed one by Runganayagie Nalini Reddy on ‘Final Project Report for the TEACH South Africa Programme’. They are Prem Bahadur Phyak’s ‘Plan and conduct action research, which involves a change related to technology use in your classroom’ carried out among Master degree students from different

linguistic, socio-cultural, educational and economic background and Camelia Pagila’s ‘Final Project Report for Teens’ which was carried out in a Romanian school of Seventh grade.

Moreover, I am using the websites http://www.elthillside.com/up/files/article4.doc and http://www. soundsofenglish.org/links.html enlisted on my own delicious page www.delicious.com/yubarajnp . I have to begin from the threshold of their listening skills. So I have been undergoing through these all.

Although the change is quite steady, yet I am hopeful that by next week my peer review, plans, rubrics, references in drafts version shall be posted with regular follow-up.

 

Thank you.

Young & Yummy 

Yubaraj Neupane

Kathmandu, Nepal