Reflection+by+Ural+BOZOĞLU

Ural BOZOĞLU-1734615

** DIFFERENTIATE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING **

In this conference, there are 4 contributers who are experts on their area. This conference was definitely beneficial for me and now I will tell every aspect which I have found useful. Firstly, I will begin with Annamaria Pinter. She mainly talked about differentiation in language teaching. According to her, teacher cannot always be monitoring the groups. So group members should take some responsibilities. Autonomy cycle is another important concept that she focuses on.



2 minutes talk( talking about whatever students are interested in), poetry, picture stories and video clips are some examples of activities in differentiate groups. Secondly, Deborah Blaz mentioned about some basic information such as choosing activities based on things that students are interested in. Thirdly, Meghan Beler talked mainly about multible intelligences which are musical, intrapersonal, visual, verbal, etc. It is definite that classroom activities should focus on more than 1 intelligence at a time because students need to increase their understandings of different types of activities. Finally, the last contributer of the conference is Patrick Shartt. In addition to multible intelligences, he gives more importance to emotional intelligence in foreign language classrooms. We, as teacher, should provide students an environment in which students can notice their capacity of recognizing their feelings.



There are many students whose intelligences are different from each other and who feel in different ways from others. So, in terms of these aspects, this conference and those contributers will certainly effect our teaching way of English to students because all of those expert people tried to inform us that every single student needs a special treatment. So we had a chance to rearrange our teaching materials and activities and teaching methods according to students’ needs, emotions and intelligences.

**COMMENT BY ABDULLAH ARAS **

Actually I could not attend this conference, but thanks to your detailed reflection, now I know much about its content. With the shapes that you add your reflection the things that you tried to show are very clear. I think the first speaker Annamaria Pinter is right about monitoring groups. So I also think that while working in groups during the lesson there should be a responsible student in each group or every students in each group can have a different responsibility. In this way the teacher can both motivate the students and actively involve them in the lesson. I also agree with the second speaker Deborah Blaz because choosing interesting and attractive topics for children is also a way of motivating them. Finally I am not sure about the issue of emotional intelligence. Maybe you should use more than one intelligence but it should not be obligatory that one of them would be emotional. Thanks to your reflection I also know the content of this conference now. Thanks for your efforts. 


 * COMMENT by Gökhan Bozkurt **

First of all, I agree with you that classroom activities should focus on different intelligence more than one, because I think that student should be able to benefit from the activities and after an activity student should be able to say that there are many points in the activity which provide many improvements for me. Moreover, all of the teachers should be aware of the situation that students all have different capacity, because they have different backgrounds and come from different cultures. And so, I agree with you that activities should make students aware of their capacities and should be able to address all of the students. 