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Kinds of teaching style that you are experience so far.

I am now studying English as my major in university. Studying in university, I have chance to study and work with many good teachers who have their own teaching styles. Their teaching styles are sometimes the same, are sometimes different from the one I studied at high school. According to the way teacher and students work at class, we can classify their teaching style into 3 main kinds: teacher-centred teaching, student-centred teaching,  teaching that teacher and students have the same role at class.

 The first and very traditional teaching style is teacher-centred teaching. Why we say teacher is the central? Because in this teaching style, the teachers themselves plan the lesson at home and try to control the class following what they have already prepared at school. Everything happening at class is in their hands, they role at the central and their beloved students just receive their lesson passively. When I was at high school, every teacher used this way to teach us. It seemed effective for us when we were young in high school and had a little knowledge about the lesson and even about life. However, teacher-centred teaching does not work well when we study at university, especially with my major-English. We hardly have chance to practice speaking English when we work with the teacher who wants to be the central at class. She tries to talk, talk and talk without giving us to give our thinking about the lesson. The result of this course is not good, we can listen well but we could not talk what we have in our mind. Therefore, with this style, the teacher has to work very hard at home and at school while their beloved students just absorb the knowledge passively. Working very hard but the result is not very good for the teacher when their students could not swallow everything they teach because of lack chance to give their questions and talk at class.

The second but very popular teaching style at school nowadays is student-centred teaching. The students are the central at class means students have to prepare the lesson at home and try to catch the chance to work at class. In this teaching style, teachers still have to prepare their work at home but they also have to enrich their knowledge as much as possible because their students may ask them some extra questions. With this teaching style, all teacher and students have to work hard to have a good lesson. The popular activity for this teaching style at class is making the presentation. Some students about 3 or 4 people prepare the lesson with powerpoint at home, present it at class and the teacher will listen, give comment and explain some questions for their students. It seems to be effective when everybody has to work but it also has a limitation that the students waste time to present at class and the teacher does not have time to explain more about the lesson. My “English for computing” class is an example for this style. Thanks to this teaching style, we- srudents in "English for computing" class- ourselves find information about computers at home and have chance to practice giving presentation at class. However, we just understand clearly about the lesson that we are responsible for having presentation and we hardly swallow the lesson given by our friends. Cannot understand the lesson, we also don’t have chance to ask our teacher because the presentation of our friends always takes a lot of time at class. That’s why the third style below becomes more popular at school besides this second style.

The third but the most effective teaching style is teaching that teacher and students have the same role at class. Both teacher and students have to work very hard at home with the new lesson so that they together give questions and give the answers for the lesson at class. With this teaching style, students and teachers all have chance to understand and give their thinking about the lesson at school through their discussion the lesson and something related to the lessons. This teaching style is very popular at universities in some developed countries like USA, Australia, Singapore and England, etc. One of my friends who are now studying overseas in Australia shared about this teaching style that he had to read a lot of materials and do assignment at home. Whatever he cannot understand is taken note and discussed by him, together with his friends and his lecturer. Thanks to this style, my friend's study is now much better because he himself knows how to be self-study, how to make questions and how to solve problems together with his friends and his professor. Therefore, I’m sure that this is the most effective teaching style that teacher and students in university should follow. 

According to the way teacher and students work and study and teach at home and at school, we can classify the teaching style into three kinds above. I hope that teachers and students can find out the good way to get the knowledge in order to be successful in teaching and learning.

        _Muipham_

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_COPYRIGHT LAW_

In 2005, Vietnam signed into the Berne convention, which is the international convention for the protection of literary and artistic work. With this convention, Vietnam has promised to protect the copyright and punish someone who makes the copy illegally. However, in terms of consumers, very important though the copyright is, I - one of Vietnamese people - didn’t care about that convention, I just cared about how to buy a product as cheap as possible. So, I used to go along with the people who made the copy illegally and sold it with the lower price. I’m sure that I would continue to buy illigal - copied books, DVDs, CDs, etc if I had not joined in the meeting about introducing Berne Convention and Copyright law in the Youth Cultural House. Thanks to this useful meeting, I now really respect Berne convention and strongly believe that copyright law should be applied all over the world.

Joining in this meeting, I recognized that copyright law was the creators' right that protects their own products from illegal copying or selling. Have you ever asked yourself why others can create a product but the others cannot? The difference between them is that some - the writers, filmmakers, photographers- can imagine and convert their imagination into real product while some- we - the consumers - don’t have any ideas to make the product, or don’t have ability to put ideas into real things. In order to imagine and transform their ideas into their paintings, novels, a piece of music or new inventions, the creators have to devote their own talents, their time, their efforts and even their money. For example, Bill Gates had to spend his own time, his talent and even his money to make Microsoft software- the most popular and useful software in the world. So, is it fair for the inventors when their heart-made product is used and sold without their permission? Of course, NO. That’s why we need the copyright law to protect their work and their product from illegal use. Everybody, no matter where they are, no matter which country they belong to have to respect the inventor’s work by respecting the copyright law. Therefore, copyright should be applied all over the world in order to protect the father’s product and their hard work.

Thanks to the meeting about protecting the copyright in the Youth Cultural House, I know that we need copyright law to encourage the authors to create. Imagine we were not the consumers; we were the writer of Harry Porter book, would we continue to write this book when our books were made a large number of copies illegally? I’m sure that more than eight over ten people will say NO. There are two reasons for this answer. First, without copyright law, the writer is unknown because when the readers buy the illegal copy of an interesting book like Harry Porter, they may not care about the writer or even may not be supplied the information of the writer from their illegal copied book. What will happen? Many readers are interested in this book but the writer’s hard work is not mentioned and their name is even strange with their book’s fans. So, how can the writer have motivation to continue on creating the next new interesting one? Second, without the Copyright Law, they- the creators do not benefit but the illegal stealing ones earn a lot of money from their heart-made products. However, with some authors, profit is a  motivation for them to create. Theirfore, copying illegal products of these authors may stop their creation and lead many valuable ideas to be still on the paper. Consequently, copyright law should be accepted all over the world before the creative makers don’t have any motivation to imagine and convert the imagination into the real product.

         We cannot deny that making the copies of a book; a CD… is much cheaper than the product that is protected by copyright law because we just have to pay for the papers and the printed ink, not for the writers’ intellectual properties. However, if we continue to do this illegal work, we may not have any valuable products in the near future because the authors do not have motivation to create any more. Moreover, we agree that the developing countries’ people have to face with financial problem when the copyright are applied. They- most of poor people in developing countries don’t have enough money to buy the quality products- the ones are protected by copyright law.   That is the reason why they think that the copyright law shouldn’t be applied in their countries. It seems to be right in short term but it is not good in the long one. When the copyright law isn’t applied in the poor countries, at first they can save an amount of money, but after that they will not be shared the new technique, new inventions and new knowledge from many intelligent authors. As a result, the developing countries without the copyright law will always face with financial problem because of lack the new inventions for their country development. Remember that no one is ready to share their intellectual product for the ones who always want to use their product illegally. Therefore, we now all agree that the copyright law should be applied all over the world, both developing and developed countries in order to have a lot of valuable products from the authors now and forever.

Whenever we read an interesting story from a book, listen to a piece of unforgettable music from a CD or watch a romantic but funny movie from a DVD, make sure that our book, our CD and our DVD are legal copied products. Using the product protected by copyright law, we not only respect the right of the creators for their hard work but also take the chance to be shared the unique ideas and products in the future. Hope that we all enjoy the legal copied product and remember that our country has already signed into Berne convention.