Week 12: How project work helps students in their learning?
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Based on the articles: "Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classroms" by Bülent Alan and Fredricka L. Stoller and "Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning" by John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller.
Projects work help students in different ways. Also, they facilitate their learning and their communication with their classmates and make them organized. First, some of the benefits of projects work are that students can choose with their teacher the topic with their fell comfortable; the project could be an interview, to create a presentation on powerpoint or create a model of something, the principal point is that they have to be creative. Also, they can choose the people to work with and that facilitates the comunication and the harmony in the group. Next, the topics have to be relate with the real world because it could be more meaningful for them if they can tell a self-experience and that could guide them to focus in the principal point.
Also, students make a self-learning at the moment in which they look for the information and they fell more committed when they know that is something out of normal and that they have to do their best. The author of the first article mention 10 steps that students have to follow to create a work project. Step 1: students and instructor agree on a theme for the project, step 2: students and instructor determinate the final outcome of the project, in this second step students determinated whether the project will be a written report, a debate, an oral presentation, etc and whether the performance will be for their classmates, parents, local business or another kind of audience, in this part they have to decide which of those options is the best for their project.
Step 3: students and instructor structure the project, in this part students choose the role that they are going to perform and which part they are going to be encharge, at the end they share the information of each one. Step 4: Instructor prepares students for the demands of information gathering, this means that the instructor will help the students to choose the best way to recolect the information depending on how they will presente it. Step 5: Students gather information, in this part the put in practice the step before. Step 6: Instructor prepares students to compile and analyze data, in this stage students organize the data using graphic, charts; etc. Step 7: students compile and analyze information, it means that students have to discuss about the results obtained in the collection of information and identify the important things. Step 8: Instructure prepares students for the language demands of the final activity, in this part students used what they learn in steps 4 and 6 for present the final outcome. Step 9: Students present the final product, students perform the final outcome. Step 10: students evaluate the project, in this part students reflect about their performance and also they receive a feedback.
Those steps may help students and teachers to organized a great performance and also it is a funny way in which students can produce what they learn in class. Using wh- or yes/no questions. And if they decide to make a written report they can practice the structure of an essay like APA and they develop all the skills which make a meaningful learning.
In my point of view, both articles are agree with the use of projects in foreign language class because as I mention before, they help in their self-learning, they are entertaining and help students to communicate with others and practice the language out of the classroom.
Based on the articles: "Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classroms" by Bülent Alan and Fredricka L. Stoller and "Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning" by John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller.
Projects work help students in different ways. Also, they facilitate their learning and their communication with their classmates and make them organized. First, some of the benefits of projects work are that students can choose with their teacher the topic with their fell comfortable; the project could be an interview, to create a presentation on powerpoint or create a model of something, the principal point is that they have to be creative. Also, they can choose the people to work with and that facilitates the comunication and the harmony in the group. Next, the topics have to be relate with the real world because it could be more meaningful for them if they can tell a self-experience and that could guide them to focus in the principal point.
Also, students make a self-learning at the moment in which they look for the information and they fell more committed when they know that is something out of normal and that they have to do their best. The author of the first article mention 10 steps that students have to follow to create a work project. Step 1: students and instructor agree on a theme for the project, step 2: students and instructor determinate the final outcome of the project, in this second step students determinated whether the project will be a written report, a debate, an oral presentation, etc and whether the performance will be for their classmates, parents, local business or another kind of audience, in this part they have to decide which of those options is the best for their project.
Step 3: students and instructor structure the project, in this part students choose the role that they are going to perform and which part they are going to be encharge, at the end they share the information of each one. Step 4: Instructor prepares students for the demands of information gathering, this means that the instructor will help the students to choose the best way to recolect the information depending on how they will presente it. Step 5: Students gather information, in this part the put in practice the step before. Step 6: Instructor prepares students to compile and analyze data, in this stage students organize the data using graphic, charts; etc. Step 7: students compile and analyze information, it means that students have to discuss about the results obtained in the collection of information and identify the important things. Step 8: Instructure prepares students for the language demands of the final activity, in this part students used what they learn in steps 4 and 6 for present the final outcome. Step 9: Students present the final product, students perform the final outcome. Step 10: students evaluate the project, in this part students reflect about their performance and also they receive a feedback.
Those steps may help students and teachers to organized a great performance and also it is a funny way in which students can produce what they learn in class. Using wh- or yes/no questions. And if they decide to make a written report they can practice the structure of an essay like APA and they develop all the skills which make a meaningful learning.
In my point of view, both articles are agree with the use of projects in foreign language class because as I mention before, they help in their self-learning, they are entertaining and help students to communicate with others and practice the language out of the classroom.
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