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Enhancing language learning through technology:
teaching in the 21st Century:
Pete Sharma
LinguaramaCheney CourtNovember 2011
www.farmgirlfollies.com
Knowledge – Skills - Attitude
K S
A3 numbers
(1) New era!
• Blended learning• Digital immigrants vs digital natives
(Prensky)
• Web 1.0 – Web 2.0 – user content / collaborative
(2) Controversial:Multiple perspectives
Multiple perspectivesTeacher
Student
Trainer
DOS
$$$
School
PublisherAuthor
Designer
Developer
Theory
Corpus linguistics
(3)Technology - changed language teaching forever
(4) Range of course types
(5) Importance of attitude
(6) CALL is situation-specific
(7) Centralicity of pedagogy
• What is it?• So what?• How to use it?
Critical analysis of technologies1) Interactive whiteboards2) Blogs3) Wikis4) Virtual Learning Environments5) M-learning
Interactive whiteboards
Interactive whiteboards
Upside Downside• Memorable presentations• Better review – flipcharts• ‘Saveability’• Range of digital materials• ‘Always on internet’ – JIT
teaching• ‘Heads-up’• Select answer
• ‘cost’• need to calibrate• ‘interactivity’• Promote teacher-centred
approach• Pedagogical value?
Blogs
Upside Downside• Easy to set up / free• Encourage global audience
for learner work• Wash-back on accuracy
• Does everyone contribute?• Does the teacher correct
student work?
Wikis
Upside Downside• collaborative• process writing• ‘history’ to see changes
• not intuitive• not everyone wishes for
peer correction
Focus on appropriacy
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Virtual Learning Environments
Upside Downside• information on demand• appropriacy e.g. critical
thinking• pre / post course tasks
• time-consuming to learn• empty at first• ‘blended courses’ pleasing
no-one
M-learning
“learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_learning
On the moveIn-class
PullPush
Scales / dimensions
Class-set Own devices
Rich content Discrete content
Resource tool One-off
Hardware
• Mobile-phone / Smart-phone• iPod / iPod touch / mp3 player• Laptop / Notebook - Netbook• Tablet PC / iPad / Samsung Galaxy• E-book readers• Learner response devices• Electronic translator
Software plus
Dictionaries Grammar practice Services ELT material Apps
M-learning
Upside Downside• buzz-term• add value• ‘just enough, just in time,
just for me’• exciting apps
• Range of interpretations• Over-reference to ‘apps’• ELT or authentic?
Five controversies• Will ELT course books disappear?• Should schools buy an IWB?• Should students have mobile phones switched off in
class?• Should classroom learners be supported with VLE’s?• Should teachers use YouTube in their lessons?
Practical teaching ideas1) Grammar2) Vocabulary3) Language skills
Receptive: L & RProductive: S & W
4) Phonology5) Games
(1) Grammar - Infinite clone tool
Right or wrong?
“I am born in Poona”“I have seen Mark yesterday”“I am in London for two days”“If I will see James, I will give him the message”
Unlikely-likely language• 40 persons / 40 people.• We're at Stockholm / We're in Stockholm• If we would have done that…….• Did you do that already? / Have you done it yet?• If I was you / If I were you• Charles, you're not understanding me
(2) Vocabulary - Word frequency
Sentences out of sequence
3.1 Receptive skills - Listening
3.2 Receptive skills - Reading
3.3 Productive skills -Speaking“Students should turn off their mobile phones in class”
Vote now:1 – Yes2 - Unsure3 – No
Speaking: Flip-video
3.4 Productive skills - Writing
Wikis
(4) Phonology
(5) Games
New technologies – new pedagogies?• Beyond the ‘wow’ factor• Pedagogy, pedagogy, pedagogy• No ‘magic bullet’• Digital divide – attitude• Technology can be inexpensive &
liberating