- Maximizing the benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classrooms by Bülent Alan and Fredricka L. Stoller.
- Educational Leadership Giving Students Meaningful Work: Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning by John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller.
Rate: 4
After reading the articles my thoughts about how to asses students learning were enriched. First, settings No-elaborated tasks are rating as projects while Elaborating sets are the ones that establish the process of a project and finish it, and it can cover a total unit. In those cases students are really benefits as they actively participate and delivery work reports developed over a period of time, and as a result, students get a higher level of knowledge and improve their foreign language. Also, their motivation and autonomy increased.
Moreover, it is really important to be careful with the way that students are process and gather information. Teachers first should present to them the different ways to gather reliable information to use in their investigation in order to make it more relevant and less superficial as well.
Furthermore, Something that I liked from the article was the project that most of the teachers tent to use in class, the under-exploited project work, there said that this project do no allow the full potential of the students, and the example presented was excellent, because if we leave our students working with friends, it is obvious that not all of them will work, because not everyone will be sharing their ideas, and if they do, they will not put into practice the English language, otherwise they would be speaking in their native language. Besides, if we left students provide feed-back on their own experiences or if we left them to work alone without receiving guidance it is likely we ignore them and they need support at every stage.
In addition, the way that the authors exposes the meaning of learning is very interesting. Also, how teachers can make the learning interesting and meaningful to students. I consider that the project based in activities is a good way to encourage students to work in something academic because they can feel that the work they are doing is important and goes beyond that getting points. Besides, I liked when the authors mention that students can feel encourage to work if they have a real audience.
You are right, this PBL activity can really help students improve. You can give them a topic, tell them what you want them to do, how they should do it and the outcome you expect. They will investigate, they will learn and they might have fun. This kind of activity will ask them to give their best, even creativity. So it is really a very good activity. We MUST try it someday.
ResponderBorrarI like the PBL activities because those activities helps tudents to improve their communication because some students are shy and the most of the time they prefer not to participate in the activities, also this kind of activities make students to be crativities and feel comfortable working with their classmates
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