Critical Reflections
Materials Design Experience
In designing the materials for
the syllabus design, we take into accounts who are the learners that will be
joining the English Camp. As the learners are schoolchildren aged 10-12 years
of age, we try to find materials that suit them. Having a previous camp with
the learners really gives us quite an experience on how to develop the flow of
the syllabus for them, and what kind of materials that really suitable for them.
Movie watching is one of the
activities that we decide for the learners. In the previous camp, we brought
along a few animated movies for them to watch. Surprisingly, they said that
they had watched the movie for several times from the satellite TV that they
have. Having very limited information about the learners, we failed to find
their needs for the first camp.
Now that we already know who
the learners are, in what kind of situation do they lived in and what are the
facilities that they have, we can prepare another different set of syllabus
design for them. In designing the materials for the second camp for the
learners, we still include the movie watching slot. But this time, we find an
animated movie that has not yet being played in any TV station. “Spirited Away”
is a Japanese animated movie that tells a story about a girl named Chihiro who
tried to save her parents that has turned into pigs after eating without
permission in a mysterious town of spirits. We chose this movie because it
contains a lot of adventure and also moral values for the learners. The
language of the movie is English. So, we think that if a movie were to be
chosen as one of the activities for the learners, we would play this animated
movie for them to watch.
Another materials that we find
interesting to be included in the syllabus design is the board game. In the
board game, the learners will learn to communicate with each other. They will
also learn how to work in groups.
Designing all the materials
needs a very careful planning. This is to ensure that the materials that we
have is suitable with the learners and their language needs. After having the
first camp with the learners, we finally think of a new thing to be included in
the syllabus. In the second camp, we decided to find materials that includes
all the language skills in learning English language. There are listening,
speaking, reading and writing activities designed for them. However, the
syllabus is not the one that is typically taught in classrooms. We adapted some
outdoor activities found on the internet, books and also through our own
experience while handling our class into this syllabus design. Keeping in mind
that this is a language camp, we try to put interactive activities
for the learners. Our aim is that the learners would use
English language in their daily activities after the camp ends.
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