Reflection on Week 9 Reading: Practical Considerations For Multimedia Courseware Development: An EFL IVD Experience

I think the project mentioned in the article is very meaningful and useful and the IVD system could help students learn their language better. Without internalizing the linguistic forms of a language, learners of it could hardly master it well. Like what is mentioned in the article, Hong Kong language teachers face a lot of problems in schools. It gives rise to the need of the CALL programme.

I am in favour of CALL, especially when learners are learning in their leisure time. With IVD, learners can learn through an authentic environment since video is recorded and incorporated into the programme. When learners learn a language from this kind of programme, they can acquire it by imitating speech acts, pronunciation, stress and intonation in a life-like scenario. As a result, the language is internalized and learners know how to use it in authentic situations.

Reflection on Hong Kong’s Amended Copyright Law

I think it is sensible for the teachers or educationalists to copy a short clip of a film as a teaching aid. I always make use of songs and video clips to arouse students’ interest when I address a problem, especially a current issue. Being granted the use of copyright, I can design my teaching materials more flexibly.

It is also fair for the students to use a small portion of a copyright work in their project with acknowledgement of the source of work. However, many pupils in Hong Kong do not know much about it and just copy and paste the whole passage from the web. The school should teach what students should do in order not to infringe copyright.

Besides songs and films, I always adopt news article in my teaching. I have to record the title of the articles I have used and my colleagues tell the publishers at a regular interval. I think it is very convenient for the teachers to make use of the hand-on information in their daily teaching.