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Developing
and
Practicing Reading
and
Writing Skills
Examples on how to
use evaluation factors
of a web site or a
software:-
GOALS:
What can the software •
or the web site do?
And how it serve
educational goals?
PRESENTATION:
How goals are •
presented at the
software or the web
site?
APPROPRIATENES:
How well students be •
able to use the
software or the web
site to meet goals?
OUTCOMES:
What do student •
produce using only the
software or the web
site? Do they need
something extra?
EVALUATION:
What can of appropriate •
feedback and
evaluation does the
software or the web site
offer?
NOTES:
Teacher here add note •
about what else is
important to know the
technology for his/her
context.
Web Site
Examples
Grammar Safari (Mills
& Salzmann)
http://www.uptoncreative.com/gram
mar/index.html
GOALS:
Help students collect
examples of grammar
points.
Useful for inductive
grammar learning
.
PRESENTATION:
Illustrated instructions
describe how to use
Web browsers to search
for terms. It has no
preset search items.
APPROPRIATENESS:
This is for intermediate to advanced
students who can use inductive
reasoning or has access to some
strategy training. Graphics help with
understanding the instructions. Help
is provided on how to use browsers &
which to use for specific goals.
OUTCOMES:
Depends on browsers and
search – could be a list of the
items, a document in which
the find capability can be
used, or an exportable text.
EVALUATION:
None.
Interlink Language Center
reading lessons
Goals:
Provide practice in extensive reading,
speed reading cloze reading
and science reading for ESL students
Presentation:
Cloze readings have reading on the left and exercises on the right.
There is generous time limit.
The read and listen exercise
provides sentence by sentence listening
and mouse over definitions of words.
Appropriateness:
Students might have need initial instructions
to understand how to use the site.
Outcomes:
Quiz like outcomes only.
Evaluation:
When students click on the answer,
they are provided with instant feedback
that contains an explanation.
They are also told which question they have to answer.
Notes:
This site also has many skills not only reading.
Site for reading skills:
http://eslus.com/lessons/Reading/READ.HTM
Word Games
Goals:
Word practice that is not specifically
for ESL students but is useful for them
as well as native speakers.
Presentation
Defintime
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/DefineTime1.html
storyman
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/top_scores.pl?game=storyman
Appropriateness:
Some of the words are esoteric,
which might frustrate students.
Outcomes:
Scores.
Evaluation:
Typically "wrong, try again"
Software Examples
Focus on Grammar
The use of concordancers or software that reads through texts
and lists incidences of chosen words in their context,
not only helps english language learners to better understanding
how to use grammar but can also help them
to practice formulating rules from examples.
The principal aim of all teaching activities must,
therefore, be the creation of a learning environment
in which learners are asked to carry out authentic tasks.
To be able to do so they are equipped with materials
which are interesting for them and which motivate them
to communicate with each other.
The learning aims of their approach in a way
similar to the communicative approach.
Competence is developed entirely through meaningful interaction.
There is the necessity for the learner to acquire grammatical knowledge
, and to develp this knowledge subconsciously.
Data-Driven Learning (DDL): the idea, by Bernd Rüschoff,
http://archive.ecml.at/projects/voll/rationale_
and_help/booklets/resources/menu_booklet_ddl.htm
Multiconcord is an example of a multilingual parallel
concordancer. It is the result of work undertaken
at the University of Birmingham as a contribution
to an EC-funded Lingua project,
coordinated by Francine Roussel, Université de
Nancy II, to develop a parallel concordancer for classroom use.
Programmed by David Woolls, with Birmingham University
support from Philip King and Tim Johns. ICT4LT Module 2.4,
Using concordance programs in the Modern Foreign
Languages classroom.
http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod2-4.htm
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Presentation
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Appropriateness
Outcomes
Evaluation
Note