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How to Use Web-based Learning and Teaching Support Effectively to Help

Learners Cope with the Learning Difficulties

Priscilla NgEducation Infrastructure Division

EDB

April 2008

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How to explore and identify difficulties in English learning at

Key Stage 3

Main Sources :

* Focus Group

* School visits

* TSA reports

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Tapescript:

What a Day! (By Dave Lee)

[My throat hurts a lot

My forehead is hot

My shoulder is stiff

And so is my neck]

[Lying in bed, feeling very sore

I just can’t read anymore.

Another day off, I should get better

And hopefully I’ll feel much fitter]

[I can’t eat any food

Can’t even drink soup

I drink lots of water

But it doesn't seem to help]

[Still not well, the very next day

It’s a horrible feeling, what more to say?

One last tip or little trick

Stay healthy,

Do what you can to never get sick]

Identify main ideas and infer feelings of the speaker

9EL1, Part 1, Q.4

Difficulties

What kind of day is the writer having? (60.5%)

A. a hot day

B. a lucky day

C. a lazy day

D. a bad day

TSA Listening

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Identify pairs of rhymes

Q.5 (29.5%)

In stanza 1, ‘lot’ and ‘hot’ are two rhyming words. Listen to stanza 3 and find a pair of rhyming words.

________ and ________

Q.6 (43.4%)

Listen to stanza 4 and find a pair of rhyming words.

________ and ________

Difficulty

9EL1, Part 1, Q.5 & Q.6

Tapescript:

What a Day! (By Dave Lee)

[My throat hurts a lot

My forehead is hot

My shoulder is stiff

And so is my neck]

[I can’t eat any food

Can’t even drink soup

I drink lots of water

But it doesn't seem to help]

[Lying in bed, feeling very sore

I just can’t read anymore.

Another day off, I should get better

And hopefully I’ll feel much fitter]

[Still not well, the very next day

It’s a horrible feeling, what more to say?

One last tip or little trick

Stay healthy,

Do what you can to never get sick]

TSA Listening

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Best loved by Hong Kong visitors is Australia’s seafood. It is fresh, plentiful and, best of all, is usually cheaper than in Hong Kong.

A. freshness

B. quantity

C. quality

D. price

According to the passage, what is the difference between Australian and Hong Kong seafood? (40.5%)

9ER2, Part 1, Q.8

Difficulty Making inferences

TSA Reading

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One of the solutions to learning difficulities

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

( WLTS)

Assessment for Learning Resource

Bank

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Aim

• Develop learning and teaching materials to help

teachers provide timely assistance to those

students who are in need of help in achieving

the basic competencies.

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

(WLTS)

Assessment for Learning Resource

Bank

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What WLTS tasks contain

* Integrated listening, reading and writing tasks

* Generic skills - problem solving skills - critical thinking skills - study skills - reference skills - creativity

Assessment for Learning Resource

Bank

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How to visit WLTS

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STEP 1: Go to the EDB Website (http://www.edb.gov.hk)STEP 2: Click “Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary Education”, then click “Curriculum Development”

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STEP 3: Click “Assessment ”

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STEP 4: Click “Web-based Teaching and Learning Support”

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Step 5 1. Click Key Stage 32. Click all 3 Strands / Dimensions3. Click both Listening and Reading skills4. Click submit

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Conclusion

WLTS - an on-going development Teachers can adapt and modify WLTS tasks

freely Teachers’ help and guidance facilitate stude

nts’ use of WLTS tasks

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Contact us :

2123 6064 or

2123 6054

Comments on and suggestions for WLTS tasks are welcome

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