In this term we learn about CAI and the program that we use is Adobe Captivate 8.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
⚡Week 12⚡
There are 3 phases of CALL
-Behavioristic CALL is the first phase of CALL. It was based on the model of computer as tutor. Most of CALL programs in this phase entailed repetitive language drill and practice activities. In other words, computer was seen as a medium to deliver instructional materials to learners. PLATO system, which included vocabulary drills, short grammar explanations and drills, and translation exercises, is a good example for this phase.
-Communicative CALL is the second phase which gained importance in the 1970s. It focuses on authentic communication and use of forms rather than the forms themselves.3 different CALL models were used for communicative activities: computer as tutor, computer as tool and computer as stimulus.
- The third phase is called Integrative CALL. It was developed in an effort to address some criticisms of the communicative approach by both integrating the teaching of four language skills.
In this phase, the computer serves as tool, in which the computer does not provide learning material, but empowers users to actually use language.
🐷Week 11🐷
Computer Assisted Language Learning
What is CALL?
CALL use of a computer in the language learning process. It aim to teach aspects of the language learning process though the medium of the computer. CALL program can be developed for the many parts of the language learning process. CALL program include: the language taught, the language of instruction, the language writing system, the level of the language to be taught, what is to be taught and how it is to be taught.Three phase of CALL
- Behavioristic CALL The audio- lingual method- Communicative CALL speaking and writing. Using the language of functions rather than analysis of language forms. - Integrative CALL The teaching of four language skills including listening,speaking reading and writing.
Advantages and Disadvantages of CALL in Language Learning
Advantages
1. Students can have an opportunity to interact in one or more of the four core skills namely, listening,speaking reading and writing because they have to use or produce text meant for an audience in the target language, not the classroom. Moreover, teacher can use CALL to provide a variety of language learning resource and multimedia of dynamic and authentic input in all area.
2. Computer mediated communication help encourage foreign language learners to produce comprehensible output.3. CALL is able to provide learners with the kinds of information and support that they requires to complete individual tasks.
Disadvantages
1. CALL is limited exposure to the target language input produced by native speakers.2. High cost3. Efficient network system in class.
Educational CALL Programs and ELT in Thailand
A tool for information procession and display to a tool for information processing and communication.-Tutorial programs- Drill and Practice- Demonstration teaching- Games
❤Week 10❤
Digital Writing: Enhancing Ways of Teaching and Learning Writing
Problems in Writing Class: Struggling Writers
This group of struggling writers is often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas. These learners usually have poor handwriting.Digital Writing
Digital Writing is becoming a standard way of life for young learners within Generation M. Digital writing as the medium to communicate with each other.Types of Digital Writing
- Blogs- Instant Messaging (IM)- Social network site (SNS)
Characteristics of Digital Writing: Features that Support Struggling Writers
Digital writing has distinctive characteristics and strengths. Many researchers report positive findings of digital communication application on various aspects related to language learning. First, many digital writing provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms. Second, learners want to communicate to the group or readers.The learners can view their language message as they produce them So, learners or those who have problems with spelling and low command of vocabulary. Finally, digital is flexible for teachers to modify contexts to suit learner's language needs and interests.
- Affiliate Group Chat- Guess Who- Scavenger- Little Reporter- Secret Admirer- Role Play- Peer Feedback- Closed Group Community
Digital Writing: Some Concerns on Academic WritingMany English teachers are still concerned that its specific register such as shorthand and emoticons.
🍎Week8🍎
COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION:CAI
What is CAI ?
CAI is is an interactive instructional technique whereby a computer is used to present the instructional material and monitor the learning that takes place. CAI uses a combination of text, graphics, sound and video in enhancing the learning process.
Main proposes of CAI:
-To attract the students’ attraction and stimulate the students to learn computer-assisted instruction be a good example of education instruction in face-to-face. -To help students interact and get feedback. -To assess and check the understanding of the students anytime they want
Types of CAI
1. Tutorial Instruction
2. Drills and Practice 3. Simulation 4. Instructional Games 5. Discovery 6. Problem-solving 7. Tests
Advantage of CAI
- Students can learn anything according to their ability.- We can add pictures, sound, definition to increase the interest.- It helps to save time and save money for learn.- Students can learn every time and everywhere
Disadvantage of CAI
- There are limit number and scope in designing Computer-Assisted Instruction.- It takes much time to design the lesson.
- It can’t develop the creative skill of students.
🎀Week 7🎀
Corpus-based Activities and Ideas for Material Design
written by Neveen Al Saeed & Salma Waly
Elementary student : Collocations: make/do
- Verb pairing game
The teacher highlights some collocations to the students then students divided into two groups. Group 1 will have corpus-derived sentences without the verb make and do.
Group 2 will have the verb make and do
Student stand in lines facing each other the ones carrying verb will take turns trying to pair their verb with the sentence to other group.
-Computer cloze activity
Examples : The little boy, Zohair, was sent to______coffee.
-Screen shot analysis
Intermediate students: Modal verbs
-Contextual Analysis
-Cloze activities
-Spot the error activity
-Multiple-choices
Upper intermediate students: Phrasal verbs
-Cloze activity
Advanced students: Idiomatic Expression:
-Concordance Analysis
-Pragmatics: Situation analysis
Certain point of designing corpus-based tasks include the ability level of the students, cultural and educational backgrounds. In class a specialized corpus is needed, EFL instructors and researchers need to make sure it is available at their institutions.
Week 5
Using corpus analysis software to analyse specialized texts
What is corpus?
A corpus can be generally defined as a collection of
naturally-occurring texts in a computer-readable format which can be retrieved
and analyzed using corpus analysis software.
Sources of language corpora
You can subscribe to a large corpus provider such as the British National Corpus (BNC)
Compile own corpora and analyze data using corpus analysis software
Sources of specialized texts
-Printed materials
-Word document texts
-CD-Rom
-Texts on the web
-Online databases
Analyzing Specialized Corpus
1.Terminologies and collocation
2. Local grammar
3. Style
- personification
- use of passive structure
4. Content knowledge
- use of acronyms
- use of 'known as' and 'to be defined as' to clarify terms.
🎈Week 6🎈
MODAL AUXILIARY IN BRITISH ENGLISH:A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF MODALITY THROUGH BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS
written by Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha
This paper present about Modality, BNCweb and Corpus Linguistics.
BNCweb
provides means of corpus linguistic analysis. Is a useful device to explore practical usage in English Language. Beside common grammatical knowledge
Objectives
BNCweb will e specifically applied through chosen modal verbs in order to:
1. shed some light on modal verbs of which meanings are difficult to make distinction on theoretical background.
2. affirm that modalities can be interchangeable due to different contexts, such as gender, type of data, perceived level of difficulty and etc.
Methods
Three modal verbs (should, have to,must) will be scrutinized by available functions (distribution, collocation and concordance) via BNCweb in order to offer empirical information, such as grammatical usage and discursive practice, of modalities in British context. Details of methodology in each function will be subsequently explained in results and discussion section.
Modal verbs "must","have to","should" have been explained in theoretical usage in many textbooks and sometimes each one has been unforeseen patterns that co-occur with each modal verb and this will assist, at least, English teachers to give realistic examples to students from the top list of collocates.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Digital writing paper
The problems that have in writing classes are often less motivated to write fails to organize their ideas.The learners usually have poor handwriting and writes slowly or illegibly.In addition to, the learners lack of confidence in producing texts and insecure feeling about showing their writing to others.
2.What does'digital writing'refer to?
Digital writing' is a standard way of life for learners in Generation M.
3.What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions?
A blog is a discussion, informational article or personal journal, published on the World Wide Web, which is often frequently updated.Blogs typically include many features such as, comments, archives.
Instant Messaging (IM) is a form of Internet-based, real time text communication between users on the same system.
A social network site (SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people share interest, create a public or semi-public profile, and interact with other users.
4.How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?
First,They provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms.
Second,learners actually type out what they want to communicate to the group or readers.
Third, promotes learners’ equity in term of interaction. Users can see everyone’s messages and respond messages in real-time
5.What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?
Many English teachers are still concerned that its specific register such as shorthand and emoticons may yield negative impact to many teen users.In particular, digital writing discourse is an informal, speaking style of language which is full of shorthand, abbreviations, and emoticons.This specific discourse register has been continually debated among scholars whether or not it can harm young Generation M learners'academic discourse.
6. Which activity do you like most?Why?
Activity 1: Affiliate Group Chat because this activity that the teacher can invite guest whom the teacher knows or interesting to students such as, foreigner, person who is in a music band to participate in the chat room or group chat with students and this activity can chat with other people around the world who are online in the same chat program in real-time.
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching
(Week 3)
What is multimedia?
What is the component of multimedia?
Text. It is fundamental element in all multimedia applications. It convey most information. Graphics. It refer to images and pictures, such as chart, diagram, and photograph, which contain on movement.
Animation. Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of image of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
Sound. It is speech, music, or any other sound that is stored and produced by computers.
Video. It is the visible part of a television transmission and broadcasts visual image of stationary or moving objects.
Animation. Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of image of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
Sound. It is speech, music, or any other sound that is stored and produced by computers.
Video. It is the visible part of a television transmission and broadcasts visual image of stationary or moving objects.
Why we choose multimedia to assist English teaching?
Advantages
-Multimedia can stimulate students to interest of learning English-Cultivating student communication skills : student practice communication to use English and can
-Combining Modern Teaching Method With Traditional Teaching Methods
-The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching
-Viewing Multimedia as the Assistance to Teaching
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes (first week)
What is a Weblog ?
A weblog or blog can be thought of as an online journal that an individual can continuously update with his or her own words and idea ,weblog entries are made by typing directly into the browser and with the click of a button are instantly published on internet. we can now observe blogs being used for personal,educational, journalistic, commercial purpose or individual's life can be learn about people,event,places and more from people around the world.I will introduce three possible ways that weblogs could be put to immediate use with ESL classroom learning.Three Types of Weblogs for Use in ESL Classrooms
The Tutor Blog is run by the teacher of a class. It serve the following purpose : course information ,homework.assignment and promotes exploration of English web site.
The Learner Blog can be used as journals for writing practice,or as free-form templates for personal expression.The idea here is that student can get writing practice ,develop a sense of ownership, and get experience with the practical, legal, and ethical issues of creating a hypertext document.
The Class Blog is the result of the collaborative effort of an entire class.the following are some possible uses : Class blog could also be used as a virtual space for international classroom language exchange. For reading and writing classes,it might also involve the use of knowledge management software,individual learners can be given varying amounts of responsibility to publishing material arising from posting on the discussion list.Weblogs enhancing EFL students'English language learning (Week 2)
Abstract
The finding indicated that the student perceived Weblog as a tool for the development of their English, in terms of writing,reading,vocabulary,and recording their learning experience.The students also viewed Weblog as giving an opportunity and freedom for self-expression in English, writing for both a local and global audience,fostering creative,analytical and critical thinking skills,creating social interaction and good relationship between writer and reader,and supporting the learning community
Introduction
Weblog is gaining popularity in the educational realm and is extensively used in English language contexts.A Weblog is a free user-friendly technology that is easily created,tailored,used,maintained,and frequently updated.Weblog are organised in a reserve chronological sequence;that is,the latest published Blog is in the first top entry and each published Blog has a date that indicate when the Blog is published.the posts can be edited by the ฺBlog can be archived and searchable though database.The audience of the writing is not limited to the teacher but extends to classmates and other people beyond the classroom,including a global audience Additionally, Weblog enhance student analytics and critical thinking skill.when posting Blogs,Blogger compose their Blogs and monitor their writing carefully because they are aware of that their writing will be virtually published and viewed online.
The study
The setting and the participants
The participants of this research were twenty undergraduate English major female students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom University. These student undertook eight semesters of coursework and two semesters of teaching practicum in secondary school.Method
The student read academics texts in class and performed related activities including exercises, summarising,discussion, oral presentation, and paper- based writing. They were required to create individual Blogs using popular, free and easy-to-use.Findings
Extent of Knowledge and Experiences with Weblog
Many student commented that they gained extensive knowledge and experiences from Weblog.For example,they had opportunities to create and docorate their Blogs ,create and share their profile,express their ideas, record their memories and experiences and exchange idea and opinions
Potential values of Weblogs
Student perceived advantages of Weblog use as follows.First,they viewed Weblog as medium of self-expression online and a tool to enhance English language development
Student reactions to Weblog use
Overall,students were positive about Weblog use and the course.Without exception,students stated that they liked Weblog because they believed that they aided them in learning English-developing writing and reading skills
The blogs
In first and seventh Blog entries the student recorded their teaching practicum experience secondary school, and New Year 's activities,respectively.They documented their memories and experiences,express their attitudes and Feeling.
Discussion and Conclusion
The result of the study indicate that the online nature and user-friendly characteristics of Weblogs encourage student's self-expression in English.Weblog are a powerful tool for English language learning particularly reading and writing skills.The sense of ownership in Blogging process encourage student to write more freely-they are engaged in fluency work,rather than accuracy work.
In conclusion,Weblog can provide an exciting and motivating learning environment where students have a sense of ownership and readership.They can be used to enhance analytical and critical thinking skills,create social interactions between students and the instructor ,students and peers,and students and a global audience.
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