To conduct this case study, evidence was used. Becker (1989) elucidates that contextual investigation suggests a point by point examination of an individual case expects that one can properly acquire data of the ponder from raised examination of a single case. In this study, a letter was written with the help of the researcher institution to ask for permission to observe the Grade 11A students in class. Moreover, the preparation of this study also required an interview and background study, where background study was done by the IBS school website and the IB Organization official website that provided education programs curriculum, whilst interview was done by the class teacher Cynthia Kong.
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Pedagogy (Teaching resources, Learning theory) The teaching was led by pedagogical approaches, teaching resources and the education theories. The educator using the critical pedagogy, didactic teaching method and the audio-lingual method during education. First of all, the teacher used the critical pedagogy that provided inclusive education to all student in class (Freire 1972). Cynthia Kong provided the inequality education to class, despite her students were of different genders, different educational backgrounds and family incomes. She shown respect to all of the students in class. Moreover, the educator was using the didactic teaching to sum up the important points of the argumentative essay outline and taught the correct English pronunciations to the learners. This teaching method provided a clear structure to the class and a teaching concepts was shaped. This is effectively an natural methods for teaching English as second language as well. Furthermore, the …show more content…
Cynthia also provided provided different useful feedbacks to students when they were learning in class. Secondly, different English teaching resources were used in class including power point, video, textbook and the assignments. The teacher provided the power point with the key concepts of the lesson. The power point included the study goals of the class, the introduction of the academic essay outline, the explanations and examples of the argumentative essay structures. Also, she using the video for teaching students about the vocabulary. This video is an animation English video for teaching the students linking words to use in their writing, such as 'in the same way' and 'on the other hand'. Which may attract the students' attention and let the lesson become more interesting. In addition, textbook was used in class to teach students how to write the thesis statement and provided some sample essays. Furthermore, the educator has designed some assignment practices for the learners to practice their writing skills. Thirdly, the teaching was done with Bloom's Taxonomy learning theory and critical learning theory. The educator used the Bloom's