Language Teaching Web Resources

Language

Teaching Web

Resources

José Luis Cabello

Language teachers are used to

using technological resources

Education Technology Evolution

• Analogical: monomedia, instruction, pre-constructive

• Digital: multimedia (cd-rom), machine interactive, not much participation & construction

• Social Web: multimedia, social interaction, participative, constructive

The Web is full of

teaching and learning resources

infoglut

infosprawl

infobabble

What do we mean by web teaching resources?

• Materials & Tools from the WWW

Source of aid or support

to be drawn when needed

• Improve quality of teaching

• Provide more possibilities of learning

• Authentic linguistic input

http://englishteachinglab.blogspot.com

• http://englishteachinglab.blogspot.com/2007/09/types-of-web-resources-for-language.html

Materials

• Teaching (curricular didactic aim)

practice exercises (grammar, vocabulary, skills), tutorials, simulations, games, …

• Referencedictionaries, encyclopedias, manuals, concordancers

online

• Authentic

texts, videos, images, podcasts, news, documents, comics, …

ESL / EFL link directories

Rong-Chang Li

The Internet TESL Journal Links

Larry Ferlazzo’s English Website

Wiki AICOLE

Social Repositories (2.0 sites)

Images: FlickrSHARE Videos: YouTube Dailymotion

TeacherTubePodcasts: Podomatic Odeo Documents: ScribdPresentations: Slideshare

FOLKSONOMIES Comics: ToondooLinks: Del.icio.us

TAGS News: Digg

Wishes: 43 Things Technorati Bloglines Netvibes …

Authoring tools for educators

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/

http://wizard.4teachers.org/

http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/taller/creating/index.htm

Virtual LearningEnvironments

Publishing

Constant Updating Classifying

Communicating

Collaborating

Global Multimedia

New social tools

Blogs Wikis Podcasts

Computer Mediated

Communication

RSSReaders Social Bookmarking

Folksonomies

Social NetworkingOnline platforms

Computer Mediated Communication

Synchronous

• Instant Messaging

• Chat rooms Paltalk

• VOIP

• MUVE

Computer Mediated Communication

Asynchronous

• Email

• Forums

• Lists

• Comments

• Microblogging

• Social networks

Virtual Communities of Practice

EFL Classroom 2.0

Ning

Telecollaboration Projects

Netiquette

Suitable partners

New ways of learning and communicating

Information inquiry, process, discovery

Authentic language and audienceGlobal intelligence Global citizenship Real communication Digital and social skills

Sharing, interacting

Ubiquitous learning

Aprendizaje ubicuo

Should teachers ignore

all these possibilites

and resources?

Are they

useful

and

efficient ?

Types of web activities

1. Lexical quizzes,

games

and other vocabulary learning specific activities (e.g. lexical maps, concordancers use,

class dictionary building ...).

2. Grammar tutorials,

exercises,

simulations and games.

3. Listening and pronunciation

virtual lab activities.

4. Reading comprehension exercises.

http://englishteachinglab.blogspot.com/2008/02/7-reading-practice-sites.html

5. Reading and writing webtasks: treasure hunts, webquests, ...

6. Multimedia webtasks: scrapbooking, samplers, podcasting, tasks with authentic multimedia materials from social sites, ...

7. Computer Mediated Communication activities

(email exchange,

collaboration projects,

CoP, ...)

8. Use of blogs and wikis for individual or group language learning

e-portfolios.

Aicole course

http://aicole.blogspot.com