Assignment nº 5

 Assignment nº 5

1_Using email: issues

Below is a series of issues that might arise when using email with learners. Suggest a solution for each.

a)   Your learners don’t have email accounts.

b)    Your learners don’t know how to send or open email attachments.

c)    Your learners use abbreviations such as CU (“see you”) or the lower case i in all their emails.

d)    You would like to provide your learners with a weekly emailed summary of class work covered, but have no time to do so.

e)    Your learners are reluctant to do extra work that belonging to a class email discussion list involves, and do not contribute much.

f)      In a keypal project, your learners don’t know what to write to their partner in another country.

g)     Your learners are upset by emails received from the partner country, as they find them “rude” or “aggressive”.

Solutions:

a)   The solution is that the teacher helps and teaches them how to create a personal email account. There are several free, web-based email services, through which it is easy to set up and use an email account. The best know are Yahoo, Hotmail, or Google mail.

b)    The answer is to teach them how to do it.

c)    The solution is to explain them that there are different levels of formality in email writing. E.g. the email to a friend may include abbreviations, emoticons, or lower-case characters such as i. These are inappropriate for a more formal email. And as we use emails to receive homework,. You will want to negotiate acceptable. We can  tell them that they are going to work with the standard written English.

d)    The teacher can email learners a summary of class work after each class or she/he can ask one student to send her/him the classroom `s summary to the whole class.

e)    The solution is to help learners, giving clear instructions and being sure to respect other’s opinions.

f)     If you learners don’t know what to write to their partner in another country, you can suggest interesting topics to push the conversation a long. Also, you can give a list of questions about a particular theme.

g)    Firstly, you must be sure about the other teacher and her/his students. If your students find them “rude” or “aggressive”, you must talk with the other teacher about it in order to share the same rules.