New Trends for New Needs in ELT

Nicatesol 2010

rodolfo.chaviano@uam.edu.ni

M.A. Rodolfo Chaviano Martínez

Friday, December, 2010

Blended Learning:

Technology Access

Outline

Some ideas about Blended Learning Enhancing Language Competencies with

Internet Rehearsing Communicative Skills with

Internet Blending Online Activities & Class

Performance Sample Online Exercises and Live Lab Practice

Blended learning is the organic integration of thoughtfully selected and complementary face-to-face and online approaches and technologies

(Garrison & Vaughan, 2008)

Concept for Blended Learning

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e-learning (online or on CD-ROM) online discussion groups online mentoring and tutor support learning using mobile devices. web conferencing Printed resources (books, workbooks) interactive manuals workshops classroom based training, etc. http://www.ptt.co.uk/blended.html#pttblended

A blended learning strategy could include some or all of the following elements:

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Live face-to-face (formal)• Instructor-led classroom• Workshops• Coaching/mentoring• On-the-job (OTJ) training

Live face-to-face (informal)• Collegial connections• Work teams• Role modelling

Virtual collaboration/synchronous• Live e-learning classes• E-mentoring

Virtual collaboration/asynchronous• Email• Online bulletin boards• Listservs• Online communities

Self-paced learning• Web learning modules• Online resource links• Simulations • Scenarios• Video and audio CD/DVDs• Online self-assessments• Workbooks

Performance support• Help systems• Print job aids• Knowledge databases• Documentation• Performance/decision support tools

http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/jul2003/rossett.htm

Possibilities of What Can Constitute a Blended Learning Approach:

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CurriculumDesign

Teaching Strategies

Educational Technology

BLENDED LEARNING

Teaching excellence and innovationin support of

student learning

A Blended Learning Methodology:

Communicative Skills

Naming & Describing reality

Listening Competency

Pronunciation Competency

Competence

Reading Competency

Enhancing Language Competencies

Writing Competency

Speaking Competency

Lexical competence

Picturing in Mind Words & Images

Producing meaningful sounds

Getting the message across

Performance

Thinking on paper

Morpho-syntax competency

Producing proper patterns

and word order

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Level 1 Online Practice 1

Blending Online Activities & Class Performance

Lexical competencies Naming and Describing

Vocabulary Expand: (4) Game about colors Numbers 1-20 http://www.visualesl.com/drag/3.htm ( drag and drop exercise)

WORKSHEETS level 1 (multiple choice)Ex 1.1 Ex 1.2 Ex 1.3 Ex 1.4 Ex 1.5 Ex 1.6 Ex 1.7 Ex 1.8 Ex 1.9 Ex 1.10 http://www.tut-world.com/p1_eng.htm (5)

Drag-and-Drop (Old) Basic Adjectives Family Fruits

http://www.visualesl.com/page/display/drag-and-drop.htm (6)

Listening Practice: Agenda reading) 01-elementary level (50 exe)http://www.starfall.com/n/me/pet/play.htm?fwhat is my pet (7) listening interactive exercise

Agenda reading 03-lower intermed.2 (compr. ex.) talk 1ª (8)

lesson 1b, listening (9) listen and choose the picturehttp://www.digischool.nl/oefenen/hennyjellema/engels/tpr/commands1b.htmTotal Physical Response TPR

conversation 1  First words   filling the gap

http://esl.fis.edu/vocab/index-e.htm (10) (11) LG42 Vehicles http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G042-Vehicles.html Listening

Listen and select the picture

Level 1 Online Practice 2

Naming and Describing

Listening competencies

Pronunciation: (agenda reading) 01-elementary level (50 exe)

sound ai sound sh sound ee (12)

http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/two-vowels/load.htm?f

videoChunking Lonely Vowel Two Vowel (13)

Level 1 Online Practice 3

Pronunciation competenciesProducing meaningful

sounds

http://www.starfall.com/n/skills/chunking/load.htm?fhttp://www.starfall.com/n/skills/two-vowel/load.htm?f

•Grammar Focus: (1-language) Unit 1 Index Grammar Exercises 1 Grammar Exercices 2 (14)

http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/unit1_index.htm

Accuracy multiple choice Ex 2.1Ex 2.2Ex 2.3Ex 2.4Ex 2.5 (15)Ex 2.6Ex 2.7Ex 2.8Ex 2.9Ex 2.10

Level 1 Online Practice 4

Morpho-Syntax competencies Using appropriate patterns and word order

http://www.tut-world.com/p1_e2-01.htm

Syntax: (agenda resources)

WORKSHEETS level 1 Sentence Construction

http://www.tut-world.com/p4_e3-1.htm

Ex 3.1 Ex 3.2 Ex 3.3 Ex 3.4 Ex 3.5 (16)

Ex 3.6 Ex 3.7 Ex 3.8 Ex 3.9 Ex 3.10

http://www.tut-world.com/p4_e3-8.htm

Level 1 Online Practice 5

Syntax competencies Proper word order

Reading Comprehension:

Agenda resources - WORKSHEETS level 1 http://www.tut-world.com/p1_eng.htm

Ex 5.1Ex 5.2Ex 5.3Ex 5.4Ex 5.5 (17) Read & answer

lesson 1a, only reading (18) Read and find the picturehttp://www.digischool.nl/oefenen/hennyjellema/engels/tpr/commands1aaa.htm

Level 1 Online Practice 6

Reading competencies Getting the message across

Further Writing Practice : (agenda resources) WORKSHEETS level 1 Cloze Passages http://www.tut-world.com/p1_e4-01.htm

Ex 4.1 Ex 4.2 Ex 4.3 Ex 4.4 Ex 4.5 (19)

Level 1 Online Practice 7

Writing competencies Thinking on paper

Conclusions BL transform the instructor role to be

more facilitative and learner-centered It reduces boredom, decreases costs, and

produces tangible results Discussions started in class may be

continued online or vice versa BL is a Non vertical education strategy Learning is social, therefore, using social

media brings about great benefits BL enhances teacher interaction with

students

Conclusions BL is borderless teaching, reaching more

students BL means increased student engagement

in learning Provides a more flexible teaching and

learning environment Provides Increased access & flexibility Blended learning is an optimized

pedagogical approach, rather than an arbitrary time division between online and F2F classes

References(1)http://www.ptt.co.uk/blended.html#pttblended(2) Garrison & Vaughan, 2008(3) http://www.visualesl.com/drag/3.htm(4) http://www.tut-world.com/p1_eng.htm(5) http://www.visualesl.com/page/display/drag-and-drop.htm(6) http://www.agendaweb.org/reading/easy_interm.html(7) http://www.agendaweb.org/reading/comprehension_easy_interm2.html(8) http://www.digischool.nl/oefenen/hennyjellema/engels/tpr/commands1b.htm(9) http://esl.fis.edu/vocab/index-e.htm Home(10)http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G042-Vehicles.html (11) http://esl.fis.edu/vocab/4r/0-4.htm (12)http://www.digischool.nl/oefenen/hennyjellema/engels/tpr/voorbladtpr.htm (13)http://www.agendaweb.org/reading/easy_interm.html Home(14)http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f Home(15)http://www.tut-world.com/p1_eng.htm Level 1(16)http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/unit1_index.htm(17)http://www.tut-world.com/p1_e5-01.htm(18)http://www.digischool.nl/oefenen/hennyjellema/engels/tpr/commands1aaa.htm(19)http://www.tut-world.com/p1_e4-01.htm

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II GRAMMAR Grammar Corner: Verbs

Stative and Dynamic Verbs (Introduction and 2 exercises)

III VOCABULARY Business English Collocation

· Collocations 1 · Collocations 2

IV READING AND SPEAKING Flash Cards

http://www.manythings.org/ - Listening & Reading

American Stories · The Ambitious Guest   (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Be ready to report about what you have read and heard. Take notes

V WRITING Ss Learning Center - Study these sections.

Essay writing: Paragraphs and sentence structure

Common faults in sentence structure -

Sentence Fragments

Misplaced modifiers

Parallel structure

Reference

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