我們的團隊 The Advisory English Team of Taichung City

109學年度-臺中市語文領域國中英語輔導團團員
召集人	向上國中林翠茹校長	兼任輔導員	大德國中鄭維源老師
副召集人	溪南國中張倉漢校長	兼任輔導員	大墩國中簡慧琳老師
副召集人	北勢國中張清欽校長	兼任輔導員	梧棲國中張世賢老師
副召集人	豐陽國中蔡瑞昌校長	兼任輔導員	大甲國中莊雅蘭老師
專任輔導員	光明國中李國禎老師	兼任輔導員	漢口國中陳敬容老師
兼任輔導員	大道國中曾靜榕老師	兼任輔導員	大雅國中羅峻豐老師
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2022/12/06

A Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

1. Department of English, NCUE

2. In-service English teacher at Kaohsiung Municipal Gushan Senior High School

It's our honor to invite Vic Cheng talking about integrating information technology into English instruction today. Vic keeps mentioning that only by the help of Google will we become the master of CALL. What we TESOL practitioners need to do is to upload the questions onto the Cloud and then we teachers can see our students feedback in a second. It helps us to get to know whether our students actually acquire the knowledge we want to teach them or not.

Due to COVID-19, we teachers are no stranger to online teaching. Google is our best friend because it provides us with so many useful teaching tools. Therefore, all we need to do is to be skilled in operating these tools in order to make our classes efficient and effective.

We don't have to learn a lot of platforms in our English lessons. What we need to do is to have a good command of Google tools for education and that's enough. Try some in your own classes and you will make your classes interactive and energetic little by little.

2022/11/09

A Workshop on Language Testing and Assessment

About the Instructor

1. MASTER OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

2. IN-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHER AT WEN CHANG JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN TAOYUAN CITY

It is our honor to invite Jojo Huang, a researcher at National English Advisory Team, talking about Language Testing and Item Analysis on CAP. Her lecture could be divided into four main categories. They are curriculum of reading competency, types of questions, strategy teaching, and inquiry-based learning.

As English teachers, what we need to do is to be familiar with Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education on reading part if we want to assist our students in preparing reading ability test at CAP. Jojo mentioned that we TESOL practitioners need to equip our students with the ability to identify different genres. Take Narration for example, it is vital for us to teach our students the structure of narration, setting and characters, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement included. Also, when it comes to Exposition, knowing the author's perspective, attitude, and the purpose of writing is paramount.

Furthermore, in order to foster students to become readers with critical thinking skills, differentiate facts from opinions is so important.

At last, backward design is a fantastic strategy for teachers to use if we want to teach our students reading strategies. There are three steps in it. Firstly, we need to identify desired results. Secondly, just determine acceptable evidence. Lastly, plan meaningful learning activities.

Thank Jojo for sharing her brilliant ideas on reading teaching and language testing. We English teachers should teach reading strategies through the previous test question on CAP, which is efficient and effective.

PowerPoint Slides from Jojo Huang

Note from Chuang, Fang-Chi

2022/09/27

A Seminar on Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning

About the instructor:

1. Bachelor in TESOL, National Taiwan Normal University
2. Researcher at English Education Resource Center
3. In-service English Teacher at Taipei First Girls High School

It is our pleasure to invite Ruth Yeh, an in-service English teacher at Taipei First Girls High School, sharing a number of useful applications related to English teaching and learning with TESOL practitioners in Taichung today. This is a heated issue since online teaching has become an ordinary thing for all teachers all over the world. Therefore, we English teachers need to equip ourselves with the miscellaneous skills on applying technology to English teaching.

At the beginning of the speech, Ruth introduced Word Search and Bingo Baker for English teachers to use when we want to have a test or practice on vocabulary as a warm-up. They are quite user-friendly and teachers can generate word puzzles and bingo cards with ease.

Also, Ruth mentioned that Google Art and Culture can be fantastic materials if we English teachers are eager to get to know more about the background knowledge of various topics. Take holocaust for example, we can find a lot of cherished photographs associated with Anne Frank, which are vivid and prized. All of the information could be combined with Google Jamboard to add colors to our English classroom.

Lastly, Google Docs is definitely the most powerful tool for students to cooperate with each other to learn English through co-editing.

*****For more detailed information, please click on the following link: 0618 多才多藝的Google Docs - Google 文件

Ruth's lecture was quite informative and useful. We hope that we English teachers can put the information into practice. In this way, we can have wonderful English classes.