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Susan Dempsey and Amanda Wilson

Boston College

Lincolnshire

UK

Web 2.0 Tools for IELTS Speaking

and Writing Success

IATEFL Brighton 2011

Our context

I’ve never thought about this before in my life

What’s the point of doing this?

This is really boring

Can’t we do this another day?

I hate writing. Can’t we just talk about this?

In my present state of mind, writing is the last thing I want to do

I’m only 16. You are wasting my time

In small groups,

How do you engage your IELTS students?

Benefits of Web 2.0

Internet-based projects “encourage(s) critical thinking skills. Learners are not required to simply regurgitate information they find, but have to transform that information in order to achieve a given task.”

Dudeney & Hockly 2007:44

A week in the life of our IELTS classrooms

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3 step approach to speaking and writing

Idea generation

Capturing the students’ work

Giving meaningful feedback

Speaking

IT and CommunicationsWhich technologies are

most important to you personally?

How have new technologies changed people’s lives in recent

years?

Idea generation

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Capturing students’ work

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Capturing students’ work

Now you have a recording of your student’s speech,

how would you give feedback?

Giving meaningful feedback in brief

Feedback in detail

Writing

Idea generation

Writing task 2

Modern technology now allows rapid and

uncontrolled access to and exchange of information. Far from being beneficial,

this is a danger to our societies.

What do you think?

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Capturing students’ work

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Giving meaningful feedback

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Could you see yourselves using any of these Web 2.0 tools in

your context?

Feedback please!

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