Classroom Discussion2

       The second class of the course  began again. The teacher gave students suggestion about learner styles.  The topic of the class was focused on 'Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)'. Besides, the communicative approaches were discussed explicitly. My fellow students and I listened to the teacher quietly. Next, teacher introduced the content-based and task-based learning.  In language teaching we also learnt about the theory of language, roles, sequence of activity,language focus, and  the example of the lesson plan.

         The communicative language teaching (CLT) was the main topic of the class.Teacher gave the students the handout and described from the powerpoint presentation.  Then, teacher introdeced the range of Educational Quality of Asean Community. There were  eight countries in the range, and Thailand was at the last place. Besides, the English Proficiency Index from 60 countries all over the world found that the English Proficiency of Thailand  was at the 55th. It meant that English Language Education in Thailand need to be improved as soon as possible.
One of the ways to develop Thai students' English proficiency is Communicative Language Teaching.The heart of Communicative Language Teaching is making real communication, providing opportunities for students to test and review background knowledge, being learn the students'mistakes, providing  students opportunities to develop the accuracy and fluency, and linking the different skills together. Moreover, there are four communicative competences. They comprise of  linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse, and strategics.The activities which are used in CLT are; to seek the ways to develop students' communicative competence. These could help students to apply the language in context correctly. 

               There are many ways and styles to teach students English. Teacher can integrate them together, maybe more than two methods. To apply the methods, it also depends on students interest, or students learning styles. For instance, content-based instruction, task-based instruction that can be used in real classroom activities. Content-based instruction is the classroom that students clearly participate in learning of the content of the subject matter, and the lesson is designed based on the selected. The other one was task-based language teaching(TBLT). It is a kind of teaching which based-on task. The tasks in (TBLT) encourage students to use English. In classroom activities, there are three main steps; pretask, task cycle and the language focus. In pretask step is focused on the topic of language learning with the given instructions. Next, the task cycle consists of planning, report and listening intentionally. Lastly, the language focus is emphasized on analysis and practice. Students can reflect and analyse the language that they have learnt through the task, then students can use the language acquired into practice.

             In conclusion, the knowledge that I have received, I would use it in my classroom activities in the future. I think that, it might be a good theory or a great tips to apply in real classroom. When facing with the students who are different kinds of learning behaviors, the knowledge that I have learnt might work together. To solve the problems in learning English in the students, surely teachers need to work hard. Moreover, it would be a successful job, if the teacher could facilitate them to learn English with the teacher's encouraging happily.