What www.neko.ca really is? Teaching aid for Canadian teachers to teach Japanese students? Yes, I think that is the right answer! From what I've been told. Once I explored it, there were so many items included that caught my attention. Brian and Neko's Place: Study English is an English fun teaching aid that full of excitement! With the games, quizzes, puzzles and activities.
It is so good to know students nowadays are exposed to a lot of functional teaching rather than the traditional way of pedagogy especially in English. As far as I know that this website is created for Japanese students who eager to learn English in Canada and I think it's good for both students and English teachers. This website also suitable for either primary schools or secondary schools and even kids. It provides a lot of grammar sections with interesting activities, games, quizzes and puzzles. For example, The Messy Room activity.
But unfortunately, this website is quite cultural specific, what I mean here is, it is exclusively for western students. There are a few of that specifically for them and not so appropriate for Malaysian students. For instance, games of the Halloween, hmm..if I'm not mistaken. We are not celebrating Halloween, right? Besides, in that Halloween sections, there are The Haunted House section which is not suitable for kids. Are we trying to frighten them of the ghosts or trying to teach them? How if, all of sudden, your student screams out of reason due to the activities? Just think of it for a second.
However, it is still a relevant website to be used in class teaching grammar and set of rules in English language. The teacher ought to be wised in deciding which part ought to be adapted and adopted to teach the second language learners. Wiser choices produce perfect outcomes.
Hi Asiah,
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you found the website interesting, and I appreciate your thoughts on the website.
You did come up with a thoughtful insight, in that while there are many interesting activities in the website, there also seem to be some which are not so suitable for certain group ages, and also some of the activities are more catered for Japanese students. Nevertheless, there are still many activities that we can adopt and adapt from this website. It all depends on how we, as teachers, can creatively and attentively use them with our students
Thanks
AB