Audio editing

Salam...

There were two main focus for the class today, which were the presentation on identifying priorities in young learners language acquisition and a short lecture on audio editing task. As we know, it is crucial to create a learning atmosphere that integrates real language use in various forms for young learners, since it will be very much helpful in their future language application. Teacher should always aware with the content and attitude goals in teaching, since attitude goal was sometimes being overlooked by teacher due to the exam-oriented setting in Malaysia. Teachers were more focusing on finishing the syllabus and the content of the subject taught, rather than focusing on enhancing students' risk taking attitude and confidence (attitude goal). This is vibrant especially in higher level of education, where the attitude goal was sometimes being ignored by most of the educators.

Besides that, there is a need to understand the nature of language. Children use language to communicate their needs, so it is important for teachers to create a meaningful learning, in which real communication take place. The attitude goals like confidence and risk taking is very important as it was the key part of the process of language development. Besides that, the teacher needs to be aware with nonverbal behaviour shown by students in the class, since it sometimes indicates the understanding by students, and not just focusing on the verbal part. We can see many advantages of real language use in classroom, for instance in encouraging them to predict meaning of words and confirming that language is something that is for real use in their daily life. When students realise the importance of language in their daily life, the learning process will become even easier and positive for them. This will enhance their motivation in learning and lower down the affective filter that may block learning from taking place. In conclusion, learning need to be real and teacher has to balance the attitude and content goals in learning.

After the presentation by each group, we were given a brief description on audio editing by Pn. Foziah. Audio editing was important since it provides opportunities for teacher to edit the audio material that he/she want to use/omit in the class, especially for listening skills part. We can cut, add, or make the sound clear by using software like Audacity, Riva encoder, and many more.Besides that, we also get the opportunity to hear to the song edited by Puan Foziah, and this give a clearer view of what we have to do for the coming task.