How to Use Web-based Learning and
Teaching Support Effectively to Help
Learners Cope with the Learning
Difficulties
Priscilla Ng
Education 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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TSA Listening
9EL1, Part 1, Q.4
Difficulties Identify main ideas and infer feelings of the speaker
Tapescript:
What a Day! (By Dave Lee)
[My throat hurts a lot
My forehead is hot
My shoulder is stiff
[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]
Can’t even drink soup
I drink lots of water
But it doesn't seem to help]
A. a hot day
B. a lucky day
And so is my neck]
[I can’t eat any food
What kind of day is the
writer having? (60.5%)
[Still not well, the very next day
C. a lazy day
It’s a horrible feeling, what more to say?
D. a bad day
One last tip or little trick
Stay healthy,
Do what you can to never get sick]
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TSA Listening
9EL1, Part 1, Q.5 & Q.6
Difficulty
Identify pairs of rhymes
Tapescript:
What a Day! (By Dave Lee)
[My throat hurts a lot
My forehead is hot
My shoulder is stiff
[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]
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 ________
And so is my neck]
[Still not well, the very next day
[I can’t eat any food
It’s a horrible feeling, what more to say?
Can’t even drink soup
One last tip or little trick
I drink lots of water
Stay healthy,
Listen to stanza 4 and find a
pair of rhyming words.
But it doesn't seem to help]
Do what you can to never get sick]
________ and ________
Q.6 (43.4%)
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TSA Reading
9ER2, Part 1, Q.8
Difficulty
Making inferences
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.
According to the passage, what is
the difference between Australian
and Hong Kong seafood? (40.5%)
A.
freshness
B.
quantity
C.
quality
D.
price
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One of the solutions to learning
difficulities
Assessment for Learning Resource Bank
Web-based Learning and Teaching Support
( WLTS)
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Assessment for Learning Resource Bank
Web-based Learning and Teaching Support
(WLTS)
Aim
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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.
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Assessment for Learning Resource Bank
What WLTS tasks contain
* Integrated listening, reading and writing
tasks
* Generic skills
- problem solving skills
- critical thinking skills
- study skills
- reference skills
- creativity
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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 3
2. Click all 3 Strands / Dimensions
3. Click both Listening and Reading skills
4. 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
students’ use of WLTS tasks
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Comments on and suggestions
for WLTS tasks are welcome
Contact us :
2123 6064
or
2123 6054
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