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    Hi, Beijing colleagues. 😍Again, it’s time to share my experience of ICT in TESOL. During this week, I have conducted an experiment in English teaching with my son. I employed several tools in the lesson with my son, including ChatGPT and Voki . While preparing and delivering the lesson, I realized what appealed me most was that technological tools could stimulate learning autonomy and motivation if we could unitize them in appropriate ways.     As usual, I asked my son to repeat after authentic cartoon videos under my instruction. This time I selected a video in Blippi series ( click here https://www.youtube.com/user/BlippiVideos ) as the learning material (my son earlier complained that Peppa Pig was childish ☺ ). The topic was seaplane. The following words from the transcript I selected were the vocabulary target of this lesson.     Then I planned to do some vocabulary tasks so that he could be familiar with these new words. However, I had to avoid...

      Hi, Beijing colleagues. How is everything going? February is the month that your students would gradually receive offers from outstanding oversea universities. You must be enjoying such exciting moments in your teaching career. In the meantime, you might be meeting new students who just choose the international education pathway and have comparatively lower initial English proficiency. We know that TOEFL is definitely beyond their current English abilities. Thus, selecting appropriate learning materials is our top priority. The ideal material should be authentic and cover topics which are frequently included in TOEFL tests. Recently in Tilly’s ICT class, I found a useful website for TOEFL greenhand to explore, that is ‘ LearnEnglish ’ by British Council. click here  https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/       The ‘ Learning hub ’ on LearnEnglish website is one part that I eager to recommend to you. This is a place where L2 learners could inp...

Hi, 😎 Beijing colleagues.   I have already studied in University of Warwick for 4 months. I am extremely grateful to all the teachers here for their help. I feel that I am making progress every day. I also have experienced several moments when I questioned my effort, ability, and experience. Fortunately, the encouraging words from my teachers here always inspire me whenever I felt disappointed with myself. I gradually realize that the learning activity, to some extent, is similar to the experience of leading a life. They all continue in a process during which I explore, upgrade and then further explore. Sometimes I don’t exactly know where the next destination is, but I do know I am climbing the ladder to the next deck.  Voki One of the best ways to reinforce my own learning is to turn around and teach it to somebody else. In this blog, I want to share with you one technical tool called Voki ( https://www.voki.com/ ), which I have just learned in ICT class. Voki accords with...

  Organization and Layout The size of font and line spacing are moderate, making the paragraph easy to read for audiences. I feel comfortable with the blogs when I scroll through the texts. Additionally, there are some pictures in the blog. I can understand the blogger’s attempt at making texts pleasing to audiences. However, if I were the blogger, I would add photos of real interaction between my students and me, rather than virtual images. By this means, the blog could be more attractive and pragmatic for teacher audiences. Content and Features I have discovered a very interesting point that the blog is not filled with very technical issues. Instead, there is some interdisciplinary discussion and the blogger’s own experience sharing. For instance, the blogger focuses on a psychotherapy term and suggests teachers to employ this notion to help students explore personal life meaning in TESOL class. The blogger doesn’t seem to make audiences follow operating steps for high-tech tea...