Reflection on the mini-presentation

To reflect on the presentation, I have to mention a name that really impressed me in the process. She is a nice young ambitious and smart lady, a would-be professor who spoke last night with passion, unshaken firmness and inspirational insights that never cease to amaze me in the last 24 hours.


Lesley in her two and a half minute speech explained the different features of college education from that of primary or secondary; addressed the importance of taking initiative in self study and the use of online resources; formulated three constructive opinions, based on her past experiences, on the college English learning and teaching which I found unusually helpful.


In the first opinion, she proposed that college teachers should consider the use of blog or wiki in teaching for exchanging ideas and solving problems. This is personally what I am thinking of but doubtful of its feasibility in china. I do hope Lesley could come up with ideas of how to implement this when confronted by the reality that most our Chinese students do not have easy access to computers.


In her second opinion, she suggested that college teachers should combine textbook with online resources. That interested me a lot. What a great thing if textbook can be updated online like Windows. Students won't be bored by the outdated materials and learning English can be enjoyable. Would we use E-textbooks in portable devices connect with network for students to facilitate their learning in a comparatively low cost? That my main concern.

Hi-tech, high life

Hi, welcome to Dictionary’ blog. I’m Dictionary.

I have been a teacher for three years in a small college where I was normally loaded with courses like Advanced English, Extensive Reading, English Listening and College English. Technically, I like to teach English listening, and I couldn't love it more for a couple of reasons.

Reason number one, it is the only course that deals with technology and I’m a big fan of technology.

Reason number two, it is the technology that works on the model of “computer as tutor” and this tutor greatly saves the effort of the real tutor.

Reason number three, it is the computer tutor that help students to improve their listening and they love that tutor.

I now share this technology in LT to you in details:

Language Lab


Pic 1


Pic 1 shows the general environment. It literally holds more than 60 students.





Pic 2

The main network system(pic 2) consists of several parts:

A master control equipment which controls a DVD, cassette players and projectors
A staff computer with Intel celeron, 512M DDR, 120G, CD-ROM,17' CRT
A campus network server
A network switch
A constant voltage power supply
Students terminals





Pic 3

Pic 3 is the teacher's interface which serves as the main platform for teachers.I now divide the interface into two parts-the left and the right for further illustration.




Pic 4


On the left side, there are four modes as can be seen in Pic4.

Normally, the discussion mode and exam mode are rarely used in teaching.

Mostly I click on teaching mode to begin my lesson.Student numbers refers to the seats(e.g.A2,B3,C8) that students take and you can just click on certain number to connect to a certain student when you ask her to answer your questions. The icons of student numbers may vary as follows:


indicating power-off in Student terminals

indicating power-on in student terminals

indicating someone who would like to talk or answer questions.

indicating someone who is talking or answering question





Pic 5


After the click on the teaching mode, it turns to the right part of the interface to chose materials.You can open videos or audios from computer to begin the course.



Pic 6

Pic 6 is the student' interface. Not many options for students.They push the call button to answer questions or chose the self-study mode to DIY their listening materials.

Anyway, teaching English listening can be really enjoyable.