Sunday, 9 March 2014

Reflect on the live session we had with Peggy

The Virtual classroom was about how does Arabic influence the pronunciation of English. It was introduced by miss Peggy, an American English Teacher. The time of the class was for one hour and it was there around 15 students and 2 teachers. Miss peggy talks about the differences between the sound system in Arabic and English language and the problem of how Arab people spell the word correctly. 

The advantages of virtual classroom that Large numbers of students can benefit from distance learning. Virtual classrooms are interactive enjoying increasing popularity, particularly among nontraditional students whose work or personal schedules do not allow for conventional classroom study. The flexibility of the virtual classroom makes it possible for many more people to enjoy the benefits of higher education.

The disadvantages of virtual classrooms that maybe some students feel boring and don't like this kind of learning. Some students have a problem of understanding, they need a time to understand and virtual classroom it may be not a good for them.

EFL Students need to Using virtual classroom in their learning and it will help them to enjoy and make the class interactive. Students sometimes need to learn with different kinds of learning to avoid boring.

Do teachers need to create Web based activities for EFL students in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Why and why not?

Nowadays, Creating Web based activities are very important and helpful for students to learn , not only in Saudi Arabia but in all the world. So, absolutely teachers need to create Web based activities for their students.  And I think its very comfortable when the teachers make their own website to learn their students. 

Web based activities have a positive results for students in subject.  It make a subject more easier and make students interesting to do their subject. 
Learners need a new way to learn whatever they want. And teaching with technology it comes with a positive results.  I think learning through a technology is the best way to learn.