(Skkn 2023) applying azota to help 12 graders themselves revise for gcse exam

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1

1 Reasons for the study 1

2 New points of topic 1

3 Aims of the study 1

4 Methods of the study 2

5 Scope of the study 2

PART 2: CONTENT 3

1 Theoretical and practical background 3

1.1 Theoretical background 3

1.1.1 What is the concept of self-study? 3

1.1.2 The importance of self - study for the exam 3

1.1.3 What is Azota tool? 5

1.2 Practical background 5

2 Solutions 5

2.1 Create groups in Zalo 6

2.2 How to use Azota 7

2.3 Some work should be done before teachers assign tasks to students 8

2.4 Practice activities for topics required in 2023 GCSE exam 9

2.4.1 Pronunciation and word stress 13

2.4.2 Grammar and vocabulary 14

2.4.3 Reading comprehension 19

2.4.4 Synonyms and antonyms 21

2.4.5 Communicative skills 23

2.4.6 Error identification 24

2.4.7 Sentence transformation and sentence combination 25

2.5 Trial tests 25

3 Results and evaluation 26

PART 3: CONCLUSION 29

1 The meaning and scope of application of the topic 29

2 Recommendations and suggestions 29

REFERENCES 30

APPENDIX 31

1 For teachers 31

1.1 The urgency of the proposed solutions 31

1.2 The feasiblity of the proposed solutions 31

2 For students 31

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1 Reasons for the study

In the modern world, with the impact of 4.0 revolution, almost all fields of

the society has dramatical changes In education, the 4.0 revolution has created a

change in teaching and studying This requires education to adapt to the new

technical environment It is required to shift from the physical education

environment that only focuses on imparting academic knowledge to the one that

needs renewing by providing learners with knowledge and skills, including a lot of

skills such as teamwork skills, creative thinking skills, critical skills and

self-study The 4.0 revolution in education also encourages and forces learners to

actively change and make them more active in learning

Teaching in the modern world does not require only a paper, a pen, a board

and chalk to teach and study To deliver learning content, today a lot of smart

technologies have been born to support teaching A teacher is no longer merely a

person who provides knowledge, but also a person with sufficient professional

knowledge and skills, diligence in research and creativity in method innovation,

who can help students meet the requirements in the new modern world

Recently, a lot of tools have been made to help students study and revise

effectively Azota is one of the tools that the authors feel satisfactory because of its

effectiveness and convenience For the reasons above, I would like to conduct the

Teaching Experience namely: “Applying Azota to help 12 graders themselves revise

for GCSE exam”

2 New points of topic

Revision programme for grade 12 in the class is carried out every year With

25 sessions required in my school curriculum for English GCSE preparation, other

people believe that it provides enough knowledge for learners However, as it can

be seen in some recent years, the results are low and perhaps, it has not not only

provided enough knowledge but also created motivation and encouragement for

students Self-study and self-revision for exam outside the class with books and

photocopied papers make students feel bored and stressed

The solutions to improve students’ self-study have focused on a lot of

factors that can contribute to the better results for students

3 Aims of the study

The aims of the research are as follow:

For the teachers:

- Design a wide range of interesting kinds of activities for revision

- Help students actively and eagerly participate in self-study

- Help students improve some skills effectively and skillfully so that they

can get expected results

- Provide as many trial tests as possible for students, help them recognize the

weakness and strength in each topic of the tests and then find the ways to improve it

For the students:

- Know how to manage the time for study at home, forming the habit of study which is an important skill for their life

self Know how important the exam revision is for the GCSE exam

4 Methods of the study

In this study, we use some following methods:

- Study some web tools

- Read materials relating to the topic

- Design suitable extra activities for students

- Collect information from students and teachers

- Learn from experience based on achieved results

5 Scope of the study

The grade 12 students

PART 2: CONTENT

1 Theoretical and practical background

1.1 Theoretical background

1.1.1 What is the concept of self-study?

"Study, study more, study forever" is a saying that contains a deep meaning that our ancestors passed on to the next generation, a saying that is a testament to the spirit of self-study and determination To better understand the problem of self-study, we need to understand what self-study is There are many different concepts about self-study, but each concept shows the high consciousness and self-discipline of young people

“Self-learning is brainstorming, thinking and using intellectual capacity (observing, comparing, analyzing…) and sometimes muscles (when using tools) and the main qualities of oneself (honesty, objectivity, forward-thinking, perseverance, patience, passion for science) both motivation, emotion, human outlook, and world view to occupy a certain area of knowledge that of humanity, turning that field under its own" - According to Nguyen Canh Toan (1997), the process of self-study

“Self-study can be understood as a form of cognitive activity of an individual to master the system of knowledge and skills conducted by the students themselves in class, outside of the classroom according to or not according to the curriculum and textbooks According to regulations, self-study is a basic form of teaching organization at university with high independence and personal nuances

as it has a close relationship with the teaching process" - according to Luu Xuan Moi 2000)

1.1.2 The importance of self - study for the exam

Learning is a process of constant development and improvement, learning and acquiring knowledge are the responsibility of every student Being aware of their own learning role, young people are constantly striving to improve their sense

of learning Studying at school is not enough time for them to firmly grasp the knowledge they have learned, so self-study outside the class is very necessary Self-study is a skill that parents always want their children to practice There must

be an effective self-study method to achieve high quality results

Self-study not only gives us results and knowledge about the lesson, but self-study also helps us practice a lot of results around it

Self-study will help you orient and plan positive and effective learning results, it helps us to acquire knowledge actively Self-study gives us good

qualities: Self-taught people will always feel that they are proactive in everything else, giving themselves the spirit of desire to dominate knowledge, not hesitate in

the face of difficulties, learning challenges Self-study helps us to evaluate and select important and useful knowledge, to improve our capacity Therefore, self-taught people are often very humble They always want to know more

1.1.3 What is Azota tool?

Azota is a technology software that helps teachers assign assignments, create exam questions, and grade online - offline exams quickly Azota develops powerful automation and customization features that are easy to use for all users

With Azota's intelligent algorithm, teachers do not need to take many operations to digitize exam questions With just drag and drop, teachers can create different types of questions: multiple choice, essay, gap filling, mixed test, group questions in a short time

The great advantages of Azota:

Inspite of the appearance of many other learning applications, this application is still favored because of the following reasons:

+ Anti-cheat ability

Perhaps this is the biggest advantage that users appreciate about this application Because the application Azota developed mainly to help with the problem of performing the test Therefore, this is an application trusted by many schools in assessing students Through the tests, it can be seen that this software supports very well in anti-cheat Specifically, the inability to access other websites during the test with the application Thereby students are unable to ask for help from friends or to look up information

+ Easy sync with Zalo

Users are easy to use the app and do not have to waste time creating a new Azota account Users can easily synchronize with the Zalo application to register and log in All personal information of Zalo is also very convenient for users.This

is a feature of marking multiple-choice quizzes in two forms: Marking from the computer or marking from the scanned file

+ Teachers can create exam questions easily

With available files and questions, Azota is very helpful for teachers It is much easier to create exam questions or online assignments

+ Teacher do not take much time to grade

One more wonderful advantage to support teachers of this software is to support grading Azota is equipped with an auto grading system for instant results The test only needs to be submitted and learners can know the results immediately

+ There are learning statistics in Azota

Marking and statistics of study results are a series of outstanding advantages

When teachers have learning results statistics, they can easily evaluate students At the same time, parents can also view their children's score statistics

+ Easy to use

Azota is developed for teachers and students, so visualization is a must In addition, it should be an easy-to-use application with a logical, simple and smart design Because it only takes a few steps to be able to use it to bring high efficiency Even people who are not good at technology can use this software

The effectiveness of Azota in revising exams

+ Assign assignments easily Azota can create and deliver assignments anytime, anywhere, on any devices with simple operations

- Support exercise creations with all formats (word, pdf, audio, video )

- Set submission deadlines, deliver assignments at the same time for multiple classes

- Allow students to submit assignments without creating an account

- Integrate icons, fonts, colors, diverse custom interfaces

- Allow hiding/showing results

- Upload photos, share exercise photos on all platforms

+ Create Quizes quickly

1.2 Practical background

In recent years, the result of English in GCSE exam in our school has not been as good as we have expected

There have been many reasons why to explain for this problem

- Parents do not pay attention to their kids’ English at the young age Therefore, when they enter to a secondary school, parents are certain that their children are not likely to study English well because they believe that English is too difficult As a result, they enter high school with low level of English

- Students’vocabulary and grammar are so limited that they can not understand the meaning of sentences and the texts in the exam

- At the high school, many students are provided with smart phones, living far from their families Actually, they are not much interested in study After class, they hook on smart phones connected to social networks as Facebook, Tiktok, and online games They know that revising for the exam is important but they find it hard to change theselves According to many teachers, outside the class, students hardly concentrate on self-study and self-revision With photocopied paper assigned in the previous lessons by the teachers, they forget doing or even do not remember to bring it to the class to be corrected

2 Solutions

To optimize available cellphones that students have in revising exam and in effort to help students have a large of number of materials and references to self - study, the authors have designed a lot of topics as following:

Part 1: Practice activity for topics required in GCSE exam

Topic 1: Pronunciation and word stress

Topic 2: Grammar and vocabulary

Topic 3: Reading comprehension

Topic 4: Synonyms and antonyms

Topic 5: Communicative skills

Topic 6: Error identification

Topic 7: Sentence combination and transformation transformation

Part 2: Trial tests

2.1 Create groups in Zalo and Messengers

At the beginning of the year, teachers created each group for every class Advantages of having groups in Zalo and Messengers

- Assign homework for all the members at the same time

- Encourage students to do and hand in homework in time

- Remind students who are lazy to complete the tasks

- Provide students with related topic theories which they are going to learn

or have learnt, helping them have time to understand more the knowledge

The following are groups for each class

2.2 How to use Azota

- Sign up Azota

- Choose Create New Account:

You can use a telephone number or an email to register in Azota

After you log in, you can see its main interface:

At this display, users are able to choose which they would like to create uch

as homework, exams and create students list of classes

2.3 Some work should be done before teachers assign tasks to students

- Teacher should make rules on rewards and punishments during the performance of tasks

Before assigning the tasks to students, teacher should make rules for all the students to follow These will motivate them or force them to do, especially the ones that are not hard working

Our rules are:

Reward: if they hand in the tasks in time with good result, teacher will compliment them in the groups and they can be given more marks in regular tests

Punishment: The students who complete homework late or do not do it will

be reminded often Moreover, if they miss too many tasks, teacher should find out the reasons and give them timely encouragement Teacher should inform their parents in case they are too lazy

2.4 Practice activities for topics required in 2023 GCSE exam

On the first of last March, the Ministry of training and education launched the illusion test for 2023 English exam

Studying the test, we easily recognize that the structure of this year's illustrative topic has not changed much compared to previous years, the knowledge

is in the textbook program, the knowledge units and the familiar format of the lessons

Basically, the illustration topics of 2023 is almost the same to that of 2022 Most of the knowledge is in the high school curriculum The sentences at the applied level mainly fall into vocabulary questions, such as questions about word choice, words with the same meaning or questions about idioms The high application questions fall into reading comprehension questions, such as inference questions, title questions, or NOT TRUE question types In terms of reading comprehension, the topics are basically related In which, 1 passage has a fairly familiar topic, about the benefits / harms of technology, specifically TV, and the other has present content (talking about the social trend of not using cash when paying)

MATRIX ANALYSIS OF REFERENCE NATIONAL

HIGH SCHOOL 2023 - ENGLISH Knowledge /

knowledge scopes

4 Stress

x

2 syllable words

6 Comparison

x

Comparative with long adjectives

Adverb clauses

of time x Modal of time

in the future with the conjunction after, by, when, as soon as…

8 Prepositions

x

Adj + prepostion

9 Tag questions

x

Popular tag questions

10 Article

x

A, an, the, no article

words of the same topic

12 Phrasal verbs

x

Popular verb phrases

13 Infinitives

x

Verbs with to verb

15 Verb tenses

x

Past progress with when

16 Fixed phrases

x

Verb + noun given

17 Passive voice

x

Simple future passive voice

19 Words that match

x

Simple communication situations

21 Daily

Expressing opinions agreeing or disagreeing

Idioms, the answer is an explanatory phrase

24 Synonym

x

Common words

25 Synonym

x

The question word is a new word, the answer is a learned word

27 Verb tenses

x

Change from past simple to present perfect

x

Conditional sentences type

2

Inversion with But for, Hardly, No sooner Only, Not Until

35 Words that match

38 Conjunctions

x

So, or, although, since

200 - 250 words, level B1

300 - 350 words, level B2

After discovering the matrix, we make a list of the main topics in GCSE exam that we will create them in Azota for students to practise:

Aim: Help students know more about every topic, especially for

low-achieved students and then they are able to do the exercises related to the topics effectively

- Step 3: Teacher upload the exercises on Azota and then do necessary settings such as deadline, classes

2.4.1 Pronunciation and word stress

Aim: Teacher provides a task of phonetics and stress for students to practise

outside the class

Before assigning homework, in theory periods in the class, teacher should provide basic knowledge, the rules for students (especially low-achieved students)

+ Pronunciation: students need to know how many vowels and consonants are in English, practice reading/pronouncing those vowels/consonants and then doing a lot of exercises related to vowel/consonant recognition The questions about consonants and vowels in the reference exam only ask for very basic knowledge of vowels/consonants The words selected for this section are also common Therefore, students need to pay attention to practice reading the words in

2.4.2 Grammar and vocabulary

Aim: Provide students with a lot of tasks to practise

How to do:

- Vocabulary: it is necessary to carefully review the vocabulary in the textbook program, especially the vocabulary in the 12th grade textbook If students are studying in the new program, they should review more vocabulary in the old 12 program, and vice versa to increase the general vocabulary foundation In addition,

it is recommended to review more vocabulary according to the topics of the popular readings that appear in the graduation exams For example, topics about technology, environment, cultural diversity, employment, etc It is best to do a lot

of reading comprehension passages on common topics and incorporate learning the vocabulary that appears in the reading passages In the process of reviewing vocabulary, it is vital for teachers and students to carefully review prepositional phrases, word combinations, and phrasal verbs appearing in textbooks In addition,

to review more vocabulary outside the textbook related to phrasal verbs, idioms, word choice, and confusing word is really important

- Grammar: Students should carefully review the grammar topics that appear

in the 2023 reference exam as listed above After reviewing carefully, good students can review more grammar topics that do not appear in the 2023 reference

exam

In this part, there are a wide range of sub-topics about the grammar points and vocabulary that are present in the exam Although the points are in the recognition level, our school students hardly remember and do them well in the test Teachers usually classify them into small topics to help students easily do homework consisting of tag questions, comparative, prepositions, sequences of tenses, articles, passive voice, infinitives and gerunds, idioms, omit relative pronouns, past continuous tense, collocation, word formation and vocabulary

2.4.2.1 Tag questions:

Aim: Teacher provides a task of tag questions for students to practise

With the recognition level, low - achieved students can easily do it if they master the basic theory and apply it into practice

2.4.2.2 Word formation:

Aim: This activity helps students recognize the formation of the word such

as verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs in sentences

2.4.2.3 Tenses and sequences of tenses

Aim: This activity helps students understand the sequences of tenses and do

the topic effectively

2.4.2.4 Phrasal verbs

This topic causes a lot of difficulties to students, especially low-level ones Almost all students say that there are too many phrasal verbs in English and they find it hard to remember Therefore, to create suitable exercises, teachers should make a list of phrasal verbs that they want theirs students to apply, from familiar to the new ones

2.4.2.5 Articles

Aim: This activity helps students practise articles and do the topic

effectively