Hao to Learn

Blended learning In 2020, the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic changed people's life. For teachers and students, the most prominent change is the way we teach and learn. When I worked as a teacher during the pandemic, I started to teach online. At first, I thought that online technology is nothing special for me because I had always been a geek👨‍💻 and a big fan of technologies💻. However, the experience of online teaching still gave me something new to learn and I realised that online learning would definitely be more and more necessary and important in the future. (PS: I really like online teaching and it gives me the opportunity to be a streamer😆.) In the ICT module and professional practice module, I have experienced and learned more that blended learning. Personally, I think blended learning can help students do better in their studies as long as we teachers make good course design and preparations and students make full use of it. Moreover, with so many online resources and in...

English Varieties Have you ever been curious about the accents of people speaking English? When I was a child, I was given the concept of British English and American English, yet I was not clear about it at all. When I grew older, I found that people may pronounce a word in different ways and they are all correct.  After knowing the varieties of Englishes in TESOL education, I realised that it is important to accept all the varieties in this global era and know several commonly seen ones.  Pronunciation of Vocabulary Vocabulary is the base of Enlgish learning and mastering the pronunciation of words will help to build a solid foundation as well. However, in China, most of the English teachers are not native spearkers and what is more annoying is that even with dictionaries, there might be differences between the phonetic alphabet given in dictionary and the pronuciation of people actually speak in real life. For example, the word 'identify', in American English, people usuall...

Teamwork Experience Collaboration has always been significant in learning. During many years of learning experience as a student, I have had so many team works which acquire me to collaborate with my classmates or friends. Sometimes, it could be fun as we invested a vast amount of energy into the work. However, sometimes things didn't go well as we expected only because of a small mistake. For example, in the ICT class, when we were asked to work as a team to communicate via a online tool without talking to each other and finish a passage, we chose to use 'vialogues' without actually knowing anything about it. To be honest, the teamwork was a disaster and we barely write nothing in the end. Because 'vialogues' is a video based tool on which we can only communicate in the 'comments section'.  While when I was struggling with our tool, I accidentally saw another group happily working together and made successful outcome with another tool, which was 'Stormb...