Slides

Dear Students,

I am posting the slides of our course below (Please go to the following links and view and/or download the files).

Week 2: Technology and teaching English language learners 

Week 3: Communicative language teaching  

Week 4: Teaching oral communication skills 

Week 5: Teaching reading and writing skills


The slides of the course were prepared using the following sources:

- Butler-Pascoe, M. E.  & Wiburg, K. M. (2003). Technology and teaching English language learners.   Boston, Mass: Allyn & Bacon.

- Dudeney, G. & Hockly, N. (2007). How to teach with technology. Pearson/Longman.

Lesson Plan

Dear Students,

You are supposed to prepare a lesson plan for your presentations and submit it on the day of your presentation. Here is the format you have to follow:

Lesson Plan Title (For ex. Talking about favorite movies)

Intended audience (For ex. 6th grade students, elementary level adults, etc.)

General Goals (For ex. To improve students' speaking skills)

Specific Objectives (For ex. Students will learn/practice how to talk about their favorite movies, etc.)

Materials (Everything you use to teach your lesson. Handouts, websites, etc.)

Anticipated problems and solutions (What type of problems you can experience and how you would solve them)

Procedure (step-by-step procedure of your lesson: pre, while, post stages)


Please add a title page to you lesson plan including the names of the presenters, name of the course, and the class. Follow APA style in your writing.


P.S. The presenters of this week can submit their lesson plans on Friday, the latest.


G. Kurt

Presentations-2

Dear Students,
Here are some ideas that might help you in preparing your presentations:

When planning your instruction, first, try to identify a problem (For example, most of the Turkish students cannot introduce themselves properly in English or I want my learners to be able to use English to review a movie)

Second, with your group members, try to come with a solution by considering the technological tool your are supposed to use (For example, to improve their speaking about introducing themselves in English, I can find a podcast in which some speakers of English introduce themselves. My learners can listen to them and do some related activities, so that they learn/practice how to introduce themselves in English)

What is important is NOT to start with technology but start with what you want to do to solve a general problem. This way of thinking will help you a lot in your presentation planning process.

Good luck

P.S. Tonight I will post a lesson plan format for your presentation

G. Kurt

Presentations

Dear friends,
For your presentations you have to give a lesson plan. I will add the details at the weekend.

Thanks
G. Kurt

Teaching speaking and listening

Here are the links of the websites we had a look during the lesson:

 http://www.rong-chang.com/book/ (for listening skills)
http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/conversation.html (for listening)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/index.shtml  (flatmates- my fav!)

http://www.language-exchanges.org   (Skype) 

Podcasts

You can check the following links to explore podcasts!

Creating a podcasts
or click here

Podcasts on various topics

Youtube video on podcasting

Educational podcastELT podcast and click here for a podcast for English language learners

You can also explore the following:

• Splendid Speaking, which seek to train students’ presentation skills; or Breaking News English, which includes grammar exercises based on topical subjects.
• Simplified language podcasts, such as the Voice of America, use slow delivery and restricted vocabulary appropriate to beginners.
• Student-produced podcasts such as Bardwell Road [http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com], provide programs where successive groups produce a weekly podcast as part of their course assignments.

Be ready to share what you have learned from these links!

Using Technology to Teach Oral Communication Skills

Here are the links to the websites we explored in the classroom:

Comprehensible input:
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm
Anonthreatening language learning environment:
http://www.manythings.org/pp/
http://www.manythings.org/el/
http://www.manythings.org/ac/
 
Please check the following websites for different types of communication for the next lesson: Interactional & transactional
 http://www.rong-chang.com/book/
http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/conversation.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/index.shtml