2- Actually I was thinking that the acts we are doing in classroom are not appropriate for my students. Because my students in this year have not any language skills. They don’t even spell English alphabet. But after I take today’s session, I believe that I can adapt the ideas about developing more listening skills to my students. I can do that in many ways. For example I can do drawing a picture of story activity with my students by simplifying it. First of all, I give them a lof of input related to vocabulary( for instance topic is physical appearance) Then I say ‘ my best friend has …. ‘ And they try to draw it. I believe that they have fun and intensify the topic with this activity. 

I can say the differentation task has given me another perspective to plan my tasks. I can adapt tasks to my students . 

 

2- One of the biggest problem with my students is that they are incapable of speaking skill. I am aware that there are many reasons for it. But if they gain self-confidence and believe themselves to achieve this, they can easily speak the language. 

Today, lots of craft knowledge come to my mind thanks to our trainers and my colleagues. There was an amazing example which our trainers showed us. I mean to say ‘KISS’( keep instructions short and simple). Sometimes we forget our students don’t know that language. And we only go with the stream while we are giving instructions. We should make quite simple sentences, which is notable for my students, and use gestures. If we think about an another effective solution for speaking, it can be digitalization. Flipgrid, which I haven’t used before, has so many advantages such as self-evaluating, motivation and peer learning. But if the students are shy like mine; animoto, voki, chatter pix, clarisketch are excellent apps. Further, let’s suppose that we don’t have any chance to get these apps, then we can use puppets and masks for speaking activity. In this way, they will be self-confident people. Yeah, ‘there is always a way.’ I believe it more day by day.

2- I would say to discuss ideas about grammar teaching methods. I mean explicit and impicit grammar. I consider implicit grammar is more educatory. Since students start to think about text while the teacher is just guiding. They try to reason and get an opinion. I suppose the most important stage is that. But there is no best method. Every method has their own effective results. It depends on situations like students, time etc. In a PDC meeting, I would want to share each methods that we have found useful and suitable for our students by adapting them.