TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING ENGLISH

COLLABORATIVE WORK 3 

welcome to our blog, this work has as objective to show how technology can be used effectively in language teaching and learning. And by the different activities you will find in it you'll also find a way to engage your students in a blended learning environment with activities you can do in class and the students can revise at home.  

ACTIVITY GUIDE 

USING WEB 2.0 TOOLS TO ENHANCE LANGUAGE LEARNING – PART 3

Purpose:

To identify the role of Web 2.0 tools in online teaching and learning and to
implement their use in English language teaching. After designing an activity or
resource to present a selected aspect of English language using a Web 2.0
tool, in this third collaborative work students will design a blog or web site in
order to provide a space for English language learning.


Learning Strategy:

Collaborative work. Each member of the group will take his/her individual
product from Collaborative work 2 and will integrate it with those of partners’
into a group blog or web page. In addition, the group will design at least one
practice activity to enrich the blog or web site.


Expected product:

A blog or web page per group to teach and practice English language. The blog
or web page should include all members’ Web 2.0 activities or resources
designed previously in Collaborative Work 2. In addition, the blog or web page
must include at least two practice activities built with educative software like
Hot Potatoes, JClic, Ardora, or Educaplay. The group leader will be in charge
to post the link of the blog or web page in the forum.


Web 2.0 activities designed previously in Collaborative Work 2

• Demonstratives in English

The following activity was designed in Prezi and it was intended to fulfill the required for a group in the below characteristics

Institution:	Instituto Agrícola La Holanda
Number of students	40
Average age	11 years
Grade:	6 th grade
English learning need	Demonstratives
Previous knowledge	Verb to be (simple present)
Web 2.0 tool	Prezi
Objective of the activity	Reinforce the knowledge and use of Demonstratives in English, already explain in the regular class.

Here is the link for the activity

http://prezi.com/x3fdi_sxhfnu

This game will help you to remember the more important terms

http://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/1111561/demostrative_pronouns.htm

• Telling the time 

The following activity was designed in Prezi and it was intended to fulfill the required for a group in the below characteristics

Institution                                                        Lingo Institute

Number of students                                       10

Average age                                                   18 years

Level                                                               Beginners

English learning need                                     Telling the time

Previous knowledge                                        Days and dates, the numbers

Web 2.0 tool                                                    Prezi

Objective of the activity                                 It is to teach how to express time in English accurately        

Here is the link for the activity

http://prezi.com/kiyumhxpgd7b/telling-the-time/

In this game you will find different words relate to the vocabulary necessary for telling the time.

http://en.educaplay.com/en/learningresources/1111572/telling_the_time.htm

• Learning English Pronuntiation

Provinma is a feminine school with more than 280 students. There are 160 girls in primary and 120 in high school. The high school area is organized from the sixth to the eleven grades, according with the Colombian education regulations. The school directors decided to offer high quality courses in English because they got a compromise with the MEN (Ministry of National Education) special bilingual national program.  The age of the students vary from 6 to 12 years in primary and 12 to 18 years in high school.

Girls in the high school grades know already a wide number of English grammar rules and English words; substantives, adverbs, adjectives, and verbs. Students are able to construct simple sentences although the pronunciation is a real problem. In order to improve the student’s pronunciation and thus their comprehension of the language several activities have been designed. The objective of these activities is to improve the pronunciation skills. I’ll present a power point presentation with several exercises that are prepared to overcome these deficiencies. 

http://prezi.com/8mvjs-go-wku/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Here is a reading comprehension activity

http://en.educaplay.com/en/learningresources/1120784/wrong_interpretation_.htm


Comments to the present work

Comment 1.

Web 2.0 tools can work together expanding the power of the presentations. A large number of tools help learners work on their writing/ publishing collaboratively, often working together in just one presentation. Language learners use ICT to help themselves to publish their work in the following ways:

-  Word processor and Desktop Publishing (DTP) software;

- Audio recording and editing tools to record interviews, discussions, etc;

- Digital cameras and camcorders to record presentations, interviews, role plays;

- PowerPoint as an aid to public presentations;

- web pages using Web authoring tools, e.g. Front Page, Prezi, Dreamweaver.

The following link gives an example of this situation:

http://prezi.com/8mvjs-go-wku/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Comment 2.

The new role of the teacher has changed radically thanks to the increasing sophistication and complexity of the media now available and which learners can use independently to achieve their own individual learning aims.  She/he has become a facilitator of learning rather than the font of wisdom. The teacher’s mastery of the new skills and literacies in a new pedagogical framework is the key to the successful deployment of the new media in language learning and teaching. 

Comment 3.

The use of technology in second language is a real necessity nowadays. We have different methods for using technology in improving the four language skills. Students of English as a second language accept and use the different tools that are part of the new technology to enhance their comprehension. Reading comprehension is an essential part of the academic success. Whether the student is beginning to read or is an advance reader, there are printable reading comprehension exercises that can supplement what he is doing in class.

Group members who participated in the activity. 

Julian Antonio Naranjo Arcila

Javier Silva Torres

Fernando Beltran 

Rodrigo Jara