IT's REALLY DELICIOUS
It has been really problematic to reciprocate myself with such sagacious commentary made by the classmates in every task of this week. No sooner I had started third week task I had to hospitalize my sister as she complained a severe headache. Such an unexpected incident further complicated the task to be carried on time, and my regular college classes and responsibilities were still there at forth. Gradual improvement in my sister's health further ameliorated me to concern on the task again, albeit I knew I was already late. I should admit that I was almost invaded by the feeling of inferiority, and then I got a very empowering mail by Donna allowing me to complete the remaining task and move further. I would love to extend my decent reverence to Donna and her affectionate concern.
The first task of this week contained three reading task and two other web-sites.    Lindsay Miller's essay Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials stresses the importance of authentic materials and methods to enhance our writing competency; which is customarily given less priority.  Next article we had entitled "New Perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation by Maria Grazia Busa deals about CAPT and CALL. When there are advanced technologies at your disposal, you cannot overlook their importance in classroom teaching and learning. It has become imperative for all of us to adopt the recent development in technologies to enhance our teaching and learning. Radio, TV and videos have been used to further the language teaching. Recently, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and internet based learning has got its impetus from the researchers across the globe. Since the few decades, experts have realized that computer or internet based learning can far better expose the learners to authentic materials. So articles seem worthy enough to foreground the importance of technology assisted learning in this global world.
Moreover Randel's Cyber Listening Lab is really awesome; it is particularly highly resourceful to those students and teachers who want to have serious discussion on enhancing listening skills. To make it direct, Cyber Listening Lab can be highly resourceful to those EFL students who are better in communicative language and familiar with certain listening skills, and still wants to improvise their skills yet further in advanced level. So I am wondering how I can use this Lab effectively to my students. One thing I should admit that I still feel some complications about the technology and the content of the course, but the learning and my friendly approach to technology has invaded my former zone of technology-learning hostility.
Similarly Delicious page is really delicious; finally I have a site where we can save and send the links of different useful webpage. I had encountered several such problems before when I couldn't save the link of resourceful sites.  Talking about the project report, I found all the reports equally useful; nonetheless there are some of the reports which need to be dealt properly.  To be specific , Runganayagie Nalini Reddy's report  on Building Teaching Skills Through tithe Interactive Web, University of Oregon fascinated me. It may be due to a complete different idea about the class structure, social reality  and other facilities. It is interesting in the sense that the writer deals about a complete different classes and the use of modern technology to assist it. Second I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the writer for sharing such such ideas. Still I am wondering how is it possible to supervise and guide those peace ambassador. Nonetheless Reddy's idea seems  so structured and well-planned and innovative.  Still I can't stop asking myself; will the project be  sustainable? After all, this week has been really really delicious.