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== Neşe's innovative ELT technique is collaborative writing. I entirely agree with neşe. Colloborative writing is very useful because students can share their writings with their friends and comment their friends' writings and also they can give feedback to each other. They can use colloborative writing tecnique via blogs, wikispaces and other technological tools. For example; we (FLE 324 section 1) use wikispace. We upload our lesson plans, reflections and we can make comment on our friends' works. We can see our mistakes and our friends suggest solutions. Because I had an experience of colloborative writing technique, I am sure that it is very beneficial technique. Moreover, teacher can add extra tasks and activities to colloborative writing technique according to needs of the students. Furthermore, almost all students have chance to use tecnnology in their education today as Neşe says. Therefore as long as technological tools are used properly, innovative ELT techniques like colloborative writing will contribute to English language teaching very much. ==

== Topic of this lesson is comparative and superlative structures in English. Actually this lesson is succesful but the activities which are done in the lesson could be more grammar focused. Lecturing the topic with adjectives can provide memorization the topic of the students but this is not enough for learning this grammar topic of students because our goal is not meaning but grammar. Using the board of the teacher while she is teaching the topic is very beneficial because the students can take note. Moreover, I like concentration carts very much because it provides practising the grammar structure. To sum up this lesson is succesful and it can be improved more, also. Thank you very much:)) ==

Sevilay BOZAK
**Comment on Fatma Çelik-Tuba Aslan-Meryem Çalık's Lesson**

**This lesson is a literature lesson. They show the pictures related to a story at first. Then they give a different part of the** **story to each group. Teacher wants the students to make comment on their part. After the students have information about** **the story, teacher wants the students to write end of the story. I think that this is an effective lesson. Showing pictures** **related to the story gives an idea to students at the beginning of the lesson. Moreover, these pictures provide visual** **elements for the students. What is more, students' writing end of the story can improve students' creativity. Apart from this, students' reading the story contribute to their reading skill. Consequently, in this lesson students will have been developed their reading and writing skills in an enjoyable way thanks to pictures and activities which are done in the lesson.**

**Sevilay BOZAK**

=**Comment on Salim-Busra-Zeynep’s Lesson**= =**I think their lesson was very appropriate for the students’ levels and their ages. Their visuals are the best I think because their students’ ages are young therefore they should choose the visuals according to their pleasures. They chose Smurfs and the adjectives are related to each other. Also their materials are very good. I think students will like them. I think the students can use the adjectives correctly after the lesson. They will also be familiar with new adjectives because they can see the pictures related to the adjectives. As a result that was a good lesson and students will exactly improve their grammatical knowledge.**= =**Thank You J **= =**Mualla ACAR**= Comment on Saliha’s and Ummuhan’s literature lesson plan The lesson plan is about reading and writing biography. They used Agatha Christie’s biography as a reading text in order to provide students with a real example of biography. After the text students write a biography which is like a game, because they came up with a fake biography written by a group of 4 students. I think that students would like to play that game, because while writing the biography they did not know anything about the ultimate work. This makes students excited with the ultimate product and makes the exercise interesting. Another good point in the lesson plan is that the teacher teaches literature and biography by practicing. However, the practice seems under the level of students or the text is above the level of students. The two activities are not in the same level. Finally, the lesson plan was well designed and creative. I think students will enjoy the lesson and the activities. Seda ATAŞOĞLU
 * 1) ==Comment on Ural's article reflection: **I think that Ural tells about very important topic for foreign language education.Ural says that i t is clearly stated that there may be mixed ability students in a classroom and activities should be organized according to these mixed abilities. I absolutely support this idea because each student is unique and each individual has differet skills and intelligence types. So teacher should apply methods which are useful for each student. Ural says that this can be provided with techniques such as peer work. Peer tutoring and group work are pretty effective techniques in my opinion. Moreover, Ural says that **** Robert VANDERPLANK doesn’t see instruction and feedback as effective ways of language performance.I do not agree with VANDERPLANK because feedback is very important for accuracy. Furthermore Moon thinks that ****while students are doing peer-tutoring or the others, their peers or group members give feedback to each other. I partially agree with Moon because students may sometimes guide in a wrong way. Consequently, I liked this article and Ural's reflection. Sevilay BOZAK **==


 * Comment on Yun and Fadime's Grammar Lesson Plan: **

According to my idea, the aim of the lesson that Yun ad Fadime prepared is very clear and there are plenty of activities that are suitable to apply in a real classroom setting. To begin with the strengths of this lesson, firstly, I think distributing candies to introduce the Simple Present Perfect Tense is very genius and strong, as it will be very motivative for the students and it will make learning more permanent. Secondly, I liked the idea of distributing a list of irregular verbs before students practice the perfect tense. It will make students’ job easier. However, I think there are some points that could be developed in this lesson plan. On the one hand, the lesson plan involves a lot of examples of the positive, negative, and question forms of the Present Perfect Tense. Teacher provides these sentences with various and suitable pictures with the help of Power Point slides. Teacher gives some very common time expressions of this tense like “just” and “yet” as well. In that aspect, I think the lesson plan is successful. However, in this lesson plan, grammar rules are given deductively. Maybe giving the grammar rules inductively would be better as it involves the students in the lesson/ topic actively. On the other hand, it is good that teacher asks confirmation from the students to the answers given in the class by asking “Do you agree with your friend?”, “Do you all agree that this is the right answer?” or “Do you have any other idea?”. I think this is what happens in most classroom environments, but, according to me, it is better for students to see the answers on the board. Thus, teacher could write the answers of the practice sheet on the board, or she could distribute an answer key just to be clear.

**Neşe Demir **
**Comment on Büşra-Zeynep-Salim's Literature LP ** This is a well-organized lesson for young learners and the lesson includes various activities. I think this is one of the powerful lesson plans. First of all, it is obvious that teacher knows the instructions very well and gives them to students clearly. It is a strength that the teacher lets the students know what they are going to do in that session, and the teacher encourages students to speak in the class by asking them which stories they have read or heard before. In addition, the fact that she wants to eliminate the answers for all the activities is also strength because the teacher encourages the students to speak at every turn. What’s more, teacher uses pictures at the beginning of the lesson with an enjoyable activity. This will be very motivating for students because the students are young learners and they like colorful pictures. Additionally, I think, the story is chosen intelligently as it includes repetitition patterns and has a simple language. There are four activities planned for the lesson, and the teacher enables students to practice by giving them matching and True-False activities and teacher wants students to product some things by giving them comprehension questions and asking them to write a new end to the story. Thus, I think the practice and production activities are distributed equally. However, although the activities are various and suitable for the lesson, I think those activities cannot be finished in just a 45 minute’s lesson. For example I would guess that students’ reading the text would take more than 4 minutes no matter how simple language it has, or it would take more time, rather than 4 minutes, to answer the comprehension questions.

**Neşe Demir **
I mostly agree with your comments Gulnara. Firstly I want to say that I also couldn’t understand how an assessment can be scientific and your reflection helped me at that point because when I realized that point, I sent a mail to speaker and asked this issue. I can forward the answer to you when she replied. Secondly, I also agree with your observations about the language levels and information that we have been provided. I think teachers should be more considerate toward beginner students throughout their adaptation process. Finally, I don’t agree with the idea that fear of failure is a motivation because I think it is a hygiene factor rather than motivation when we look at the situation from the point of Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory. To sum up you have some different points from my reflection and thanks to these different points I could also understand different points that I did not pay attention or notice during the workshop. Thanks for your efforts.(Gulnara is in the second section but as we should comment one conference that we also attended I choose her reflection.)
 * Comment By Abdullah ARAS for Gulnara's Conference Reflection**