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   For today, Teacher turn on the video from you tube Which about  The Effect of New Technologies on English  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVqcoB798Is   Then, teacher talk about the video and asked about new  technologies and advantages & disadvantages of social media.    After that, teacher assigned everyone in classroom to read the article research "Computer assisted Language Learning and Introduction" by Mark Warschauer. After that, the teacher gave the handout me to read again at home.    I learned from 08.30 a.m. until 10.0 a.m. and then I had a midterm examination. It's about the thing that we learned such as what is "Global English"? And how to implicate in teaching and learning English?, what is differences between ESL and EFL? And how to implicate in teaching and learning English?, What are the factors that affect in learning and teaching English? How to implicate in teaching and learning in English? The teacher gave 90 minutes

   Today I learned about the English teaching problems in Thailand and Thai teacher's problems.     First, teacher asked me to think about the problems of Thai education, and I found that it had many problems such as, teacher had many works, teacher not understand the curricula, large class, students lacked of motivation in learning and etc. These problems are stills for long time, and Thai education system can't solve the problems.    Next, teacher assigned me to read the article about English teaching problem in Thailand, and I learned about problems involving teachers as follows: The top 5 highest ranks of their problems were concerned with  1) teaching writing 2) incorporating experiential learning into English classes 3) their own minimal use and/or exposure to English 4) teaching listening and speaking 5) using games and songs effectively in English classes Then, I will tell you about the problems involving students had the highest problems as foll

        From last week, teacher gave the text which was a research about the Factors Effecting English Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. For today, teacher assigned everyone in my class to think about The factors that effect to English teaching by writing mind mapping. After that, changed the opinion and ideas with friends in my class. For me, I divided the factors that effect to English teaching into 3 parts. First, about the teacher, students and Learning Environment.       First about teacher, the affecting has many components as follow: Teaching method, teaching experience, relationship between teacher and students, appropriate contents for students, rules of learning, and etc. Second about the students, the components that effect to students such as background knowledge, learning motivation, mood and emotion, learning attitude, learning style, etc. And the third, learning environment that effect in learning such as the large class, atmosphere in classroom,

    For this week, teacher reviewed about Learning in 21st Century. We learned from the research and websites that the teacher suggested. 21st Century Curriculum and Instruction - Teaches 21st century skills discretely in the context of key subjects and 21st century interdisciplinary themes - Focuses on providing opportunities for applying 21st century skills across content areas and for a competency-based approach to learning - Enables innovative learning methods that integrate the use of supportive technologies, inquiry- and problem-based approaches and higher order thinking skills - Encourages the integration of community resources beyond school walls Then, the teacher gave handout about the data of classroom learning contexts: teacher descriptions.  After that, she assigned everyone in my class to think and discuss about the teaching method, learning activities, level of students, atmosphere etc. There was 3 contexts such as An English Lesson in Malaysia, Mo