SKKN Encouraging students’ self - Study in the covid-19 epidemic through the website gnomio.com

e. The module- based design allows users to 
modify the interface by using one of the given theme or create a new theme. The 
Gnomio’s design is geared towards education and for those working in educational 
sector. It suitable for different levels of educational and training forms such as 
universities, colleges and high schools as well as organization and individuals. 
Some of main advantages of this web can be listed as: 
+ Engagement: The web Gnomio.com is designed to create excitement for 
students in study through the learning activities taking place inside and outside the 
classroom are designed by teachers. 
+ Connections: Teacher are the centre of a learning network that connects 
students, parents and educators. 
+ Personalization: The support appealing and easy- to- use accounts and 
features into contents of courses personalizing students’ learning process 
+ Evaluation: The web Gnomio.com makes it easy to tract students’ learning 
progress: Assignment, Quizz, Giving opinion, Giving learners cross- evaluation, 
etc. 
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4.3. Features of the site Gnomio.com 
These days, it is challenging for teachers and students to share available 
resources and learning documents through the Internet so that learners are able to 
actively study at home and save the expense for printing and copying. The 
application of the website Gnomio.com can support teacher and learners to control 
more systematically and scientifically because: 
+ They can enclose and share a wide range of documents with formats such 
as SCORM, Word, Powerpoint, PDF, MP3, MP4, .wmv, .mov, PPT, excel, .gif, 
.jpeg, etc. 
+ Teachers and students can stimutaneously share a lot of resources with 
different formats. Furthermore, learners are asked to self- study at home by 
completing assignments relating to the topics they are studying as well as watching 
lecture videos or reading materials before each lesson. 
5. Creating the Web 
Teachers create their own web with their domain name on the website 
 Fill the information as required. 
After the site is created, every involving information is sent to the mail that 
teachers registered, including user name of admin, password to login 
Here is my own site created to help my students self- study in the Covid-19 
pandemic: 
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In my website , I created three 
available courses English 10, English 11, and English 12. However, in this 
experience, I mainly mention about the course English 11 with activities of the 
students from two class 11A1 and 11A7. 
In order to help students to be able to practice the duties given by teachers 
on the website, teachers add students with their user names and provide students’ 
passwords. The steps to create students’ accounts are: 
- Site administration users add new user 
- In the courses that teachers want students to study: 
 Participants enroll users select user 
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This interface allows teachers to control not only the number of participants 
of the courses, but also students’ activities by providing the last access to the 
courses. 
II. Experiment 
1. Material preparation 
In order to have a effective teaching class, there are some teaching aids have 
been created, they can be used again and again. Obviously, teaching aids have a lot 
of good uses for language teaching and learning if they are carefully prepared and 
creative exploited in class. They can be simply listed as follows: 
 - The website and make 
sure that students do not face with any problems 
 - Textbook 
 - Documents and exercises relating to the lessons posted on the website 
 - Computers or smartphone connected the Internet 
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2. The illustrated lessons 
2.1. Unit 1 Friendship 
* Objective 
- Students can self- consolidate their knowledge about Unit 1 as some 
lessons in each Unit are cut down. Furthermore, they are also able to use their own 
language to complete a description about one of their friends. 
* Activities on the website 
- Teacher provides a task named “ontap” using the application POTATOES 
on Assignment, students download and do the task at home 
- Teacher asks students to describe one of their friends and then post the 
descriptions on FORUM 
- Other students can reply to their mates’ descriptions. 
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2.2. Unit 2 Personal Experiences 
* Objectives 
- Students will be able to practice extra- reading exercise relating to the topic 
in order to improve their reading skill by doing a cloze test. 
- In addition, they are able to tell a story about their own past experiences. 
* Activities on the website 
- In Forum, teacher adds a discussion topic: “Tell one of your past 
experiences”. 
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- Students type their own story and may get the feedback from other 
participants. 
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- In Cloze text, a reading exercise is added, and students practise reading 
skill. They can get their result at once. 
2.3. Unit 3 A party 
* Objectives 
- Students are able to be provide more about theory of Gerund and Infinitive 
through item Lecture. 
- They also practice to check their knowledge about topic by doing the 
exercises in the Assignment. 
- Giving their answer in Forum can helps students exchange their results 
with their partners. 
* Activities on the website 
- Teachers provide the theory of gerund and infinitive by creating a lecture 
with SCORM package so that student can show by themselves and take note the 
essential points. 
- Teacher posts Exercises of gerund and infinitive so as to help students 
practice further. 
- Students using the theory to do exercises and post their answer to FORUM 
and other students can give feedback. 
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 2.4. Unit 4 Volunteer work 
* Objectives 
- Students are provided the lecture of unit 4- Reading with vocabulary, 
structures and background about the topic 
- Basing on the lecture, students can practice extra- reading exercise in order 
to improve their reading skill 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher posts the lecture with the format Powerpoint combined with 
SCORM and students watch the video to get the information about volunteer work 
and note down the vocabulary 
- Learners do reading exercise posted in the item : Practice of reading, they 
get their feedback to their answer immediately. 
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- Educators can control the number of students participate in doing exercise 
as well as the point they get when completing the task by using item” Reports”. 
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2.5. Unit 5 Illiteracy 
* Objectives 
- Students are able to practice doing exercises about Expressions of 
quantifiers and exchange their answers with their mates through the FORUM 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher posts the exercises about Expressions of quantifiers on the 
Assignment. 
- Learners do the task and type their answer on the FORUM. 
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2.6. Unit 6 Competitions 
* Objectives 
- Students can practice more about Gerund through exercises and they also 
exchange their answers with their partners on FORUM 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher posts the exercises about Gerund to better students’ knowledge 
about the point of grammar. 
- Students access to ASSIGNMENT to get exercises and type their answers 
in FORUM. 
2.7. Unit 7 World Population 
* Objectives 
- Students can go over the topic and study the lesson by themselves. 
- They also can practice in order to improve their reading skill and 
accumulate the vocabulary about the topic “World Population”. 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher provides the lecture about the topic “World Population” and an 
reading assignment by using the application POTATOES combining with SCORM 
PACKAGE. 
- Students watch the video of the lecture and learn the new words by heart. 
- And they also apply the words in the lecture to understand the reading text 
so as to answer the questions. 
- Also they can check their answer by themselves. 
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2.8. Unit 8 Celebrations 
* Objectives 
- Students are able to learn and have background about traditional 
celebrations in Vietnam. 
- They can also use English to express the information about one of 
traditional celebrations. 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher add a new topic discussion on FORUM “Talk about one of 
celebrations in your country”. 
- Students type their replies to express their ideas. 
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2.9. Unit 9 The Post Office 
* Objectives 
- Learners are able to practice more about Relative pronouns through an 
Exercise. 
- They can self- evaluate their level in this topic. 
* Activities on the sites 
- Teacher posts the exercise of Relative pronouns using Jquizz embed 
SCORM. 
- Students do exercises and check their answers by themselves 
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2.10. Unit 10 Nature in Danger 
* Objectives 
- Students are able to use the background of the topic they study in Unit 10 
to do Exercise reading. 
- The eleventh graders are motivated to be concerned about the safety of 
nature and how to protect it 
- They can self- evaluate their level of reading skill about the topic. 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher creates and posts an exercise of reading about topic “ Nature in 
danger” 
- Students do the exercises and learn more new words about the topic. 
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2.11. Unit 11 Sources of energy 
* Objective 
- Students are able to use the information about sources of energy in the 
world and the vocabulary relating to the topic to make a powerpoint document. 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher asks students work in groups to do the task. 
- Students post their products on ASSIGNMENT. 
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2.12. Unit 12 The Asian Games 
* Objectives 
- Students are able to improve their reading skill by answer the question in 
Reading exercise. 
- They also self- evaluate their performance when getting results of 
completing the task. 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher posts the questions about the reading passage in Unit 12. 
- Graders answer the questions and know their level of reading in this topic. 
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2.13. Unit 13 Hobbies 
* Objectives 
- Teacher design the tasks to support students to self- study about the sounds 
/bd/, /bz/ and cleft sentences focusing on subject, object and adverb. 
- Student can using English to tell their hobby. 
* Activities on the sites 
- T creates the lecture about the sounds/ bd/, /bz/ and the theory of cleft 
sentences in slides embed SCORM package. 
- Student self- study at home and reply the requires in Forum with the topic 
“Tell about your hobby” 
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2.14. Unit 15 Space Conquests 
* Objectives 
- Students are able to use English to discuss about the information of man’s 
space conquests. 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher creates a Forum to provide students a space to express their 
knowledge. 
- Students complete the table about the historic events in man’s space 
conquests. 
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2.15. Unit 16 The wonders of the world 
*Objectives 
- Learns are able to get about the in formation about seven ancient wonders, 
seven new artificial wonders, seven natural wonders of the world and sharing with 
their mates in Forum 
- They can get knowledge about special passive voice. 
* Activities on the site 
- Teacher gives the require in Forum and post the lecture about the topic 
with powerpoint and SCORM package. 
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- Students reply to the require and study the lesson by themselves. 
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 2.16. Other topics 
- Teachers cam add more topics depending on their aims in teaching. For 
example, to train gift students, the topic “ BỒI DƯỠNG HSG” is created. In this 
section, teacher posts the requirements in order that students do the task or prepare 
the lesson at home. 
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III. The results of the research 
During the period of Covid-19 pandemics, education and training have a 
number of challenges. However, with a view to maintain the study and learning for 
all children at every age, there are plenty of methods applied including online 
teaching through Zoom, Microsoft teams,. The website 
www.hothuyduongthpt15.gnomio.com is a private site, which supports my 
students in further study of English. I can find that these activities make students 
eager to study the lessons at home. They do not learn passively and do not wait for 
the time teacher provides points of knowledge. Not only do my students learn 
actively, but the teacher can control their activities and the portion of participation 
as well. 
I have done the experiments applied to class 11A1,11A7 for the entire 
academic year. As a result, more and more students are appealed to the activities 
on the site. In this school, after applying these encouraging activities into the 
lessons until this point of time, my students react positively to my research. 
The result of the research on the rate of students’ attendance is counted up 
with the following table: 
Academic year 
2021- 2022 
 Always Often Sometimes Never 
11A1 41 students 78% 19% 2% 1% 
11A7 38 students 90% 8% 2% 0% 
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PART C: CONCLUSION 
1. Experience from the research 
In conclusion, students' activeness in learning English has become one of the 
most concerned issues of methodologists and linguistics. Especially, in recent 
years, there have been many changes in learning and teaching method with the 
purpose of enhancing students' activeness, creativity and communication ability in 
the real life situation in English language. Learner- centered approach and 
communicative approach are more and more emphasized and appreciated. 
Learning English through the encouraging self- study activities through the website 
Gnomio.com is one effective and interesting way, especially in the Covid- 19 
pandemics when students have a lot of difficulties in direct classroom. Not only 
does this help teachers provide a wide range of the documents they want supply to 
their students, but it gives students convenience of the time to do the tasks. 
2. Proposals 
* For the school: 
 The school provides essential materials in the best using state for teaching 
online 
* For colleagues: 
I hope that my colleagues can consider using my experience in their classes 
and give me their options and contributions to so that my research can be better 
 Finally, I would like to thank to my lovely students, my colleagues, and 
others having helped me to complete his teaching experience and I hope to be 
received your contributions to make my research more perfect. 
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PART D: REFERENCES 
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3. Sách Giáo viên Tiếng anh 11. Nhà xuất bản giáo dục 
4. Dạy học theo chuẩn kiến thức kĩ năng 11. Vũ Thị Lợi, Trần Nga, Nguyễn 
Thị Thuận, Nguyễn phương Hạnh. 
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7. Moodle.com