Technology

in Language

Classroom

Zafar Ullah, English Facilitator

zafarullah76@gmail.com 1

CALL: an overview

CALL “the search for, and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning.” (Levy)

Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), Web-Enhanced Language Learning (WELL) Network-Based Language Teaching (NBLT), Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)

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Phases of Evolution: 1. Behaviourist CALL

Skinner’s book ‘Verbal Behavior’

“Pedagogically audio-lingual,

Psychologically behaviorism,

Linguistically structuralism” (Stern)

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2. Communicative CALL

• Cognitive Theory ,

• Process of discovery,

expression and development

• Computer as a tutor

• Computer as a tool

• Soft wares were developed,

• Use form, teach grammar, implicitly, generate

original utterance, avoid telling mistakes of

students, use target language exclusively (John

Underwood, ‘Linguistics, computers and the

language teacher’ 4

3. Integrative CALL

• Internet 1950’s

• Multimedia-

In 1960,University of Illinois

Internet in Pakistan1992

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CALL in Pakistan

• ELTR

• SPELT

• Research

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MALL, M-Learning

• It is an approach to language learning that is

assisted or enhanced through the use of a

handheld mobile device.

• MALL has evolved to support students’

language learning with the increased use of

mobile technologies such as mobile phones

(cellphones), MP3 and MP4 players, PDAs and

devices such as the iPhone or iPad, tab etc.

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MALL Evolution

• Japanese started MALL projects.

• MALL was developed by the Stanford Learning

Lab, which explored their use in ESL.

• Twarog & Pinter (1988) used telephones to

facilitate distant language.

• In 1996, instructors at Brigham Young

University-Hawaii taught a distance-learning

English course from Hawaii to Tonga via

telephone and computer.

• Dickey (2001) organized teleconferencing to

teach an English conversation course in South

Korea. 8

MALL Features

• All features of a computer

• Useful for language learning

• Voice Recording and Listening

• SMS (Short Message Service)

• Internet Facility

• Downloading

• Camera, videography

• Gaming

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The Characteristics of

Mobile Learning

• spontaneous

• bite-sized, fast-food

learning

• personal

• Informal

• portable

• Ubiquitous /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/

(everywhere, anytime)

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Learning with CALL/ MALL

• Googling

• Using online dictionaries

• Record dates using online calendars and organizing tools

• Capture notes and pictures through mobile cameras

• Email or phone students to arrange meetings for class projects

• Translation websites

MALL Activities • Activity I .correction

Record a student speaking about a topic or a role

play. Then, play if students can rectify their

mistakes.

• Activity II

A teacher can film his/her students ,a role play or

discussion. Produce a similar role play or make

it a discussion topic.

• Activity III

Take pictures/videos with mobile phone. Ask if

they can identify them, explain them...

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Benefits of CALL and MALL • Active, enjoyable

• Constructive

• Collaborative

• Autonomous

• International

• Conversational

• Contextualized

• Reflective

• Record, listen MP3, MP4

• Receive text / multimedia messages

• Receive administrative information

Useful Sites Web Based Learning

• British Council Teaching English

• Onestop English

• Zozanga.com

• Manythings.org

• Academia.edu

• Elt-resourecful

• Demand High ELT

• An A-Z of ELT

• 4Teachers.org (to integrate technology)

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Cont… • Abcteach educational offering 5000+ printable

• Breaking News English.com

• Dave's ESL Café

• Education Planet more than 100,000 resources

• Education World educational search engine

• Educator's Reference Desk: ESL Lesson Plans

http://www.refdesk.com

• EduHound

• Edutopia

• Eduweb interact with material like video games

• English Firsthand: Teacher Resources

• ESL Flow

• ESL Kids Stuff

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Cont…

• ESL Through Music

• SongsforTeaching

• Every Picture Tells a Story

• Everything ESL: Classroom Lesson Plans

• Google for Educators

• Interesting Things for ESL Students

• Havefunteaching.com

• Internet Picture Dictionary

• Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day (award winning)

• Learn English

• National Capital Language Resource Center

• NetGrammar (reading, writing and listening

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Cont…Lesson Plans

1.PBSlearningmedia.org 3,000 free lesson plans

2.Unesco.org.pk lesson plans

3. http://ielanguages.com/lessonplan.html

4. http://www.eslkidstuff.com

5. Lesson plans etc http://www.edhelper.com/

• Time Magazine for Kids: Classroom Resources

• Esltower

• Esl galaxy

• Eslkidslab

• Esldepot

• Eslgold

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ESL APPS • Grammar Up

• Grammaropolis

• English LaunchPad (whiteboard etc)

• Socrative (assessment)

• Learn English The Fun Way

• SpeakingPal SpeakingPal English Tutor

• iFPoems Busuu (vocabulary 3000)

• Wordflex Touch Dictionary

• Dynamic English Lesson 3 – Idioms

• iBooks

• My Story

• Writing Prompts

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What is a Blog?

• A Blog is a personal website where entries are commonly

displayed in reverse chronological order.

• Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular

subject; others function as more personal online diaries.

• A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other

blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

• The ability for readers to leave comments

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Why Blogs?

No need to write on bathroom walls.

Engage students with native speakers

• Good for assessing writing

• Let instructors post and track homework

• Empower students

• Integrate Internet resources as links

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Blogs in the ESL Classroom

• The use of blogs in the ESL classroom

– Use as a journal or diary.

– Promotes critical thinking.

– Open Classroom walls.

– Can assess student writing.

– Promotes Process Writing

– Shows the wider world what is happening:

• students+students with other schools+parents+organizations

• Anyone with Internet connection

• Could create language learning communities

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To Create a Blog….

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)

is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your

thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos

and video.

Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.com)

is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog.

Blog (http://www.blog.com)

provides a fully-featured publishing platform for free. Blog by yourself

or establish a writing community, all under an address

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Podcasting

• Is a collection of audio/ video digital media files

which are distributed over the Internet using

syndication feeds (RSS) for playback on mobile

devices and personal computers

• Why Podcasting?

– Use voice to connect students

– Audio and video can be integrated

– Bridges cultures

– Motivate students

– Because a real audience exist 23

Podcasting benefits for ESL

Record classes

Students record episodes

Good for assessing pronounciation

Short radio shows

Flexibility

Playback

Synchronization of Episodes

AIOU FM Radio

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Authentic Audio

www.Learnoutloud.com

www.bbc.co.uk

British Council Learn English podcasts

•BBC Newsround + Radio

One Stop English (subscription)

Ello and other EFL podcast sites

(Breaking News English)

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How to Create a Podcast

• Podomatic (http://www.podomatic.com)

Get a free podcast, share your favrouites.

• GabCast (http://www.gabcast.com) Is a podcasting and audio blogging platform

offered to virtual communities, individuals etc

• ODEO (http://www.odeo.com)

Insert your audio and create a podcast to share

in your blog.

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- Youtube (http://www.youtube.com)

is a place to discover, watch, upload and share

videos.

Started in Feb, 2005

Based on Neuro cognitive reasoning

How to play youtube in Pakistan? www.playit.pk

Teachertube (http://www.teachertube.com)

Youtube for your Classroom

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Why to Use Youtube in ESL Class

room? • Multiply knowledge

• More than 2 billion videos watched daily.

• Exposure to authentic English

• Immersion teaching and techniques to increase

L2 input have generally positive effects on the

language acquisition process (Mangubhai, 2005)

• To connect abstract foreign language concepts

to their actual experiences (Wang, 2005)

• Promote student autonomy (Leung, 2004)

• Videos for professional grooming

• Videos for art of teaching

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Youtube for Listening and Speaking

• Conversation analysis

• Speak similar dialogue

• Movie trailer voiceovers

• Famous movie scene re-enactments

• Vlogging: “video blog,”

• Videos for making mind maps

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Youtube for Writing

• Note-taking

• summarizing:

• TED Talks (http://www.ted.com)

• “How-to” write

• Dictation

• Cloze tests

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Useful Video Channels in Youtube

– JenniferESL: With over 153,000 subscribers,

Jennifer’s best videos are her lessons on idioms

(kitchen idioms, driving idioms, colour idioms

– MisterDuncan: Considered one of the original English

teachers on YouTube. He covers lessons on fluency

and speaking English naturally.

– Voice of America Learning English: Join over 98,000

other subscribers and learn English with captioned

news reports read at a slower speed.

– BBC Learning English: Another popular site, with over

64,000 followers.

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Authentic Video

• All major TV channels – BBC/ITV/Sky

• News sites – BBC/The Argus

• YouTube (TEFLclips)

• TrueTube

• Videojug

• National Geographic

• Real English and other EFL video sites

100 best video sites for ESL

http://www.edudemic.com/best-video-sites-for-teachers/

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Facebook and Social Media for ESL

• Founder Mark zuckerberg

Howard University

• February 2004

Founded: March 21, 2006, in USA

Founders: Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack

Dorsey, Biz Stone

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How to use Social Media in ESL

classroom? • Use Facebook page and group features to

communicate with students.

• Create a Facebook page. Start posting updates.

Ask your pupils to translate the text in English.

• Create a Twitter account. Start tweeting in a

foreign language.

• Using Facebook in a Research Group

• Use Facebook as a professional development

resource.

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Skype

• The name was derived from "sky" and "peer".

• a premium voice-over-IP service and instant

messaging client,

• developed by the Microsoft Skype Division.

• Skype was first released in August 2003.

• It was created by Janus Friis (Denmark) and

Niklas Zennström (Sweden) in cooperation with

Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn

(Estonia),

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Skype Features

• Conference Calls

• Instant Messaging or Chat

• File Sharing

• Screen Sharing

• Using Skype for Marketing ESL/EFL Programs

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Skype Benefits

• Role-play telephone conversations.

• Record

• Live listening to natives

• E-pals

• Language Exchange Groups

• cross-cultural exchanges

• Online teaching

• connections between classrooms and students

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Video Games/ Edutainment

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An electronic game that involves an

interaction with a user interface

To generate visual feedback on a

video device.

The earliest example is from 1947—

a "Cathode ray tube Amusement

Device" was filed for a patent on 25

January 1947, by Thomas T.

Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann

Types of Videogame

• Played online

• Played on computer

• Played with handheld device

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Advantages

• Communicative

• Problem solving

• Action oriented

• Locating things

• Scanning

• Fast reading

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Best Videogames for ESL

• Phantasy Quest leaves you on a deserted island

• Sound Factory lets you play a musical factory

• Ketinetto 2

• The Ballard of Ketinetto 7

• Heart Of Tota

• Monster Basement This one is fairly scary,.

• Griswold The Goblin includes audio supported

text and a lot of fun..

• The Ballad of Ketinetto

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Cont…

• Dr. Stanley’s House 2″

• Inspector Kloo 4

• Inspector Kloo 5

• The Ballad of Ketinetto 8

• Mild Escape is an “escape the room” game

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Tools for Creating Teaching Materials

• 1. Exam time mind maps:

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Cont…

• 2. examtime Quizzes:

• 3. eltpics photos to teach

• 4. Author Stream slides

• 5. Present.Me A video presenting platform:

You simply upload a Power Point presentation

and add video or audio to accompany your

presentation slides.

6. Blabberize Animates any image with a

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Cont…

• 7. Tagxedo Creates beautiful word clouds.

• 8. Infogram Creates interactive infographics

When you move the mouse over each word, an

information box opens with a synonym or

explanation. You can also add photos and

videos.

9. Animoto Creates videos

with photos,music and text.

10. Piktochart Creates quick

and impressive infographics.

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Cont…

• 11. StudyBlue- an online tool for making

flashcards with video and audio

• 12. Pixton- an online comic maker to add sound,

upload pictures and images.

• 13. Storybird- is a collaborative storytelling tool.

Students can create short art inspired stories

• 14. Prezi- a cloud-based presentation software

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