Session 2 Reflection

Corpus : http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

The first activity that impress me a lot was searching how native English speakers use the language in a corpus. I was quite excited because I was thinking of some ways to improve my language skills and I know the best way of learning a language is immersion. I stayed in the UK for one year and in that year, I felt my English improved a lot. However, I couldn't go to England for another year now, how can I still keep in touch with "native English"? 

I finally found an answer from the lesson. It is the corpus. Not only my academic writings, but also my students writings can be ameliorated because we can type some words in corpus and a series of the example sentences will be popped up. After all, we can see how people use the words to express themselves in a more "native "way so we can imitate the style of writing, the collocation of words and the level of acceptance of some "new" English. I would like to emphasize that English is a language system which is keep evolving so I will definitely tell my students to try this out and experience how real and practical the English they are learning.

Quick slides !? : http://www.classtools.net/qwikslides/

The another distinctive tool is a website which can help people turn a list of sentences into slides that can be flipped. I have tried to use it to make some slides of classroom rules and it really worker! I just used less than 2 minutes to finish the slides!

I have experienced how efficient and amazing the tools is, as the "production procedure" is very simple , teachers can let their students put down the sentences that they need to recite here and make them into slides, they must be interested and have great fun!