Brief review of my action research project

I mainly use the Ohio ESL http://www.ohiou.edu/linguistics/esl/ for my action research. The learning objective is to arouse student’s interest to the topic “Halloween” http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/halloween1.htm and to train their reading skill. I expect students can explore more on the topic by doing other related language-use exercises like gap-fill, matching & jumbled sentence. For the evaluation, I will do class observation and a short survey about the effectiveness of this website. I may also interview some students if necessary.

From the class observation, I found that most of the students enjoyed to do the exercise and could be handled quietly themselves within the time limited. From the data of the survey, most of the students were interested to use the website. Some of them suggested if there are animations, pictures, audios and even videos, it will be more attractive.

I think it is a trend to incorporate teaching with online resources. It is especially true to arouse students’ interest and even support to explain difficult concepts with the help of animations and videos. I think schools can tailor made some online materials and buy some suitable software from different publishers which match our syllabus and the school-based curriculum. Teachers can also mark students’ work online. This would make teaching more effective in future.