Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Reflection on Task 1: Lesson Plan


When a Muslim baby comes to the world, it is necessary for her to listen to adhan. This event can be considered as a proof to how important listening is. Allah S.W.T has given fortunate human beings the ability to hear for them to use it wisely as taking care of this amanah is an act of 'ibadah

From the task give, we have discovered that when dealing with human to human conversation, our culture has set listening secondary after talking. Those who are vocal and speak impressively always get the name. Good listeners on the other hand, are easily forgotten. This is certainly not healthy as it takes two to tango. A society without listeners will lead to the collapse of its nation when everybody only wants to listen to themselves, their own point of views of life and others' don't matter. 

Hence our decision to prepare a lesson plan on listening skill, as we find that listening is as important as speaking. The significant lesson we learn from this task is that technology has opened up a whole wide area of opportunity to improve our listening skills, rather than using the conventional method of listening to a recoded tape and write down our answers on a given worksheet.

With the invention of voice-/video-chatting (such as Windows Live and Skype), students are able to improve their listening skills by communicating through voice-/video-chatting, as what we have prepared for our lesson plan. When we prepared this task, we found that there are so (numerous!) many websites on improving grammar, writing skills, and reading skills. Little did we know that there are also a number of websites that cater to improving one’s listening or speaking skills by communication to another leaner or teacher and this opens up students to the concept of authentic language. This gives the opportunity for students to possibly native English speakers or perhaps other dialects of English, especially those of non-native speakers.

This concludes that technology has brought boundaries closer and gives chances to people who are do not have the opportunity to be exposed to other versions of authentic English language than the one they are surrounded  by. 

               Prepared by: Illya Shahirah
 
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