Proposal of Group Project - Group 5

Proposal of Assignment 3 by Fanny, Jenny, Joyce and Sherlock

Our target students:
We design the CALL website for upper primary and junior secondary students. As Cantonese is their first language and English is their second language, students are weak in English comparatively.

Our aims:
Since students are passive learners, we would like to make use of this website to arouse students’ interest in learning English. We want to improve students reading and comprehension skills. We can expose students to read authentic texts such as online news articles and motivate them to share their feelings and opinions about the readings. Besides, students can do interactive activities and writing activities like writing instructions, “Dos and Don’ts” in a notice after reading some recipes.

Students needs:
This website focuses on reading and comprehension skill. We link to some interesting and attractive websites which provide a lot of online readings. We choose some simple, familiar and interesting topics for our students such as food. We also want to attract them by creating some interactive activities using Hot Potatoes (exercises like fill in gap, matching, multiple choices, etc.) We set some hints and feedback for students when they try the activities. Here, teacher becomes a facilitator and is responsible to explain rules and guidelines of these interactive activities to students. The doers are the students where they are also the active learners and controllers.

As reading comprehension is included in the school curriculum and the syllabus, this website is useful for teaching and learning in schools or at home. We will design one lesson to do these interactive activities. With Internet connection in the MMLC, students can use the computers and does the task. They are asked to do the activities and write down their scores. We can assign follow-up writing exercises like poem / recipe / notice. Students may download the writing frameworks from the website and can summit their work to teachers via email. Teachers can mark it or share it with the class.

Benefits
After the lesson, students can:
1. learn a set of vocab about food & action verbs [the verbs appear in the recipe]
2. learn another kind of genre [recipe + writing instructions]
3. tailor-made material to speed up reading texts

Technologies:
We design our website by using Dreamweaver and Hot Potatoes. We ask students to share their feelings and ideas about the activities on the website. Links will be set to our blogs, wiki, online dictionary and some useful and interesting English websites.