Yahui Cai

Dr. Iryna Kozlova

EDUC 8215
10/29/2023
CBLP Reflection Blog 3
In-service reflection

1. What is your project about? Which course topics are most relevant to your project?
Which of the course readings can inform your project?
We are launching an online English learning platform to meet the diverse needs of our
community and students. This comprehensive platform is structured into five distinct
sections, each catering to different proficiency levels, from absolute beginners to advanced
learners. It also introduces students to valuable online English resources, like Zoom, ensuring
they are well-equipped for digital communication in English. It's a one-stop English learning
site tailored to student needs. This allows our students to use the website resources for
independent study or review outside of attending our classes. In particular, our teaching site
does not offer pre-beginner classes, and many students who are complete beginners, i.e.,
those who do not understand or speak English at all, will take beginner classes with students
who have some basic knowledge. Our pre-beginner part would provide them with some
preparations. The course topics pragmatics and interaction, authentic materials, and teaching
vocabulary and grammar are most relevant to our project, so these weeks readings (week 6,
week 8, and week 9) are very useful in selecting topics, organizing the contents, and giving
instructions for each level of our project.

2. Do you have a plan and the ideas for its completion? What jobs need to be done to
complete the project? Create a document where you list all jobs/components that need
to be completed for your project? You can use Exercise 4.4, p. 58 (Ch. 4) as a guide.
3. What are responsibilities of each team member? Use the list of the jobs and and
assign each job to a team member. Create a Group Member Work Tally (see Table 4.11.
p. 74) to keep track of the work each group member accomplished. You will submit this
form along with the final product. It is also important to keep the work tally updated to
see if every group member equally contributes to the project.
Topics Task/Sub task Who Who How
initially actually long
agreed did it? did it
to do it? take?

Website Homepage: Iris

Framework  Header: Contains website
logo, navigation menu (links
to Introduction, Rationale,
sub-pages, and Resources).
 Picture Section: A large
 banner or image showcasing
the website's purpose,
perhaps with a catchy
headline and a call-to-action
button.
 Brief Overview: A concise
summary of what visitors
can expect from the website.
 Footer: Contains links to
privacy policy, terms of
service, contact information,
social media handles, and
any other essential
information or links.
Introduction: What the website
is about and its main goals.
Rationale
Subpages:
 Pre-beginners:
 Overview
 Vocabulary
 Grammar
 Daily life conversation
 Beginners:
 Overview
 Content
 Intermediate:
 Overview
 Content
 Advanced:
 Overview
 Content
 Resources:
 Overview
 Content

Alphabet Yahui

Phonetics Rey

1)Numbers Yahui
 1-10
  10-100

2.1)Days / Weeks Iris

(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday)

Vocabulary 2.2)Months Iris &

(PPT with Rey
audio 2.3)Dates Iris
instructions +
Quiz)
3)Colors Yahui

4)Family members Rey

5)Scenarios-specific daily Rey

objects
(eg.g., Classroom: books, pens,
paper; Home: chair, table)

6) Action verbs: Iris

 Sit
 Stand
 Walk
 Eat
 etc.

Grammars Nouns and Pronouns: 'I', 'You', Rey

(PPT with 'He', 'She', 'It', ‘we’, ‘they’.
audio
instructions + Simple Sentences: Rey
Quiz) "I am ..."
"She/he/It is ..." "You/We/they
are…"
Pre-Beginner Page
Yes/no Questions Yahui
“Is/Are …?”
“Do / Does…?”

Daily-life 1) Greeting Yahui

conversation “Hello!”
 (PPT with “How are you?”
audio
instructions + 2)Goodbye words
Quiz) “Bye Bye.”

Self- Introduction Iris

“What’s your name?”
“My name is……”

Making request: Yahui

“please……”

4. How is your team work going so far? Do all team members seem to be in agreement
towards what you are going to accomplish this semester? If not, how did you find a
compromise?
We've currently decided what each of us will do individually, and have agreed that for
each task, after we complete, we'll share the results in our WeChat group so that other
members can see what we've done individually and offer some comments. Our idea was to
finish the pre-beginner part first. and if we still have time after we finish the pre-beginner
paert, we will continue to do the beginner part and the digital resources part, because all three
of us are teaching the beginner level, so we agreed to leave the intermediate and advanced
parts for those who would teach these two levels later.