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Teaching and Learning ESP globally with Web 2.0 By María Jordano de la Torre & Victoria López Sanjuan TESOL 2008 Madrid, March 7th-9th 2008
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Teaching and Learning ESP globally with Web 2.0
By María Jordano de la Torre& Victoria López Sanjuan
TESOL 2008 Madrid, March 7th-9th 2008
March 8th 2008 [email protected] 3
Then, what’s web 2.0?
• Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users.
(Wikipedia)
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Changes from web 1.0 to 2.0
• Web 1.0 - Web 2.0Web 2.0• Britannica Online-->WikipediaWikipedia• Conventional web-album-->FlickrFlickr• personal websites-->bloggingblogging• publishing-->participationparticipation• content management systems-->wikiswikis• directories (taxonomy)-->tagging ("folksonomy")tagging ("folksonomy")• stickiness-->syndicationsyndication
(O'Reilly http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30
/what-is-web-20.html )
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Web 2.0 & Language Teaching
• Simpler to use
• Very quick to update
• No knowledge on HTML/FTP required
• Teachers and students could collaborate equally (very important for ESP)
• Updated interface
• Possibility of moderation (different users)
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Why using web 2.0 to teach ESP?
• Real material focussed on the field could be added with no effort
• Not only teachers but also students could collaborate with their knowledge (they know more than us)
• A way to train ourselves as ESP teachers
• Easily editable, error correction
• No need to have much ICT knowledge
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Description and definition of Web 2.0 tools applied to ELT
• Blogs: Commonly used to practice writing (blogger) /Ipodcasting (listening)
• Feeds: to get informed faster (google reader)• Wikis: to create content in a collaborative way
(wikispaces)• Social bookmarks: to share links with the
whole class (Delicious)• Photo sharing: Great for commenting pictures,
oral skills (Flicker)• Music sharing: for listening (Jamendo)
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Our subject, English for Tourism
• More than 2000 students
• We have never meet face-to-face
• They know more on the field than us, teachers
• They need to practice writing before the exam. Difficult to do on their own
• Adult learners, different interests, jobs, familiar context, etc…
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A meeting point, our blog (apart from our online course & “tutorías”)
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Blog stages
• I: Only teacher writes
• II: Teacher writes, students answer
• III: Teacher & students write (tutors, in our case)
• IV: Students have their own blog
• V: the whole group is working in collaboration with other blog projects (ex. dekita)
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Posts in our subject• Just reading (Stage 1)• Meant as way of practising “writing” at the
begining”. (Stage 2)• Later used also as reading input for
writing• Now used for listening (video)• Not only audio files, but also videos that
can be recycled in the online course• Could be classified thanks to “categories”
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Feed (students and other teachers)
-It is a quick way to receive information of all the posts sent to the blog in real time
- Not only posts for students, but also “comments contents” for us, teachers (and also students).
- It’s a way to have a record of the activity produced on the blog (feedburner in this case).
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Thanks to our blog we can see at a glance fresh travel headlines from…
• New York Times (Travel News) Am E.• Times on line (Travel News on line) Br. E.• The Independent (Travel) Br. E.• Daily Telegraph (Travel) Br. E• CNN (Travel) Am. E. (Tv)• Via Michelin (Tourism & Gastronomy) Eu. E.• National Geographic (Travel & Culture) Am. E
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And not only text…
• The Independent Travel Guides
• National Geographic podcast
• Via Michelin (videos)
• National Geographic (includes also videos in their news)
• Learn English (a podcast http://www.listen-to-english.com/index.php?id=124)
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Surveys
-As a good way to know if we are doing right or wrong…
-Number of valuable visits.
-You could add as many as you need…
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Tags/categories
By clicking “etiquetas” you could access to all of them with the same tag. Very good to prepare exams!!
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Links to other…
• Sites
• Dictionaries
• Students’ blogs
• Teachers’ blogs
• Social-bookmarking
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Other web 2.0 projects to be developed from this year…
• Collaborative list of links (delicious)
• Bank of pictures uploaded by students and tutors) to be used within the online course (or even tutorías)
• Wiki to help mainly with grammar
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Other blogs on English for Tourism
http://englishtourism.blogspot.com/
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Ana Vázquez (UNED tutor)
http://writinginenglishfortourism.blogspot.com/
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What does this have to do with Global English…?
• Blogs, and web 2.0 are opened to the whole world…
• so that, students will read and listed to different Englishes.
• Real Englishes to work on in a ready-made way.
• It is a never ending space for new tools, gatgets and content according to the needs our our students/subject/level, etc.
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Advantages and disadvatages of using one or another
- Since Web 1.0 is “moderated”, you don’t have to watch what others do. (+)
-Students will only have your English as input (-).
-You are the responsable of all the material used in you website (-).
-More complicated to updated. (-)
-Difficult to find a free hosting (-), except your instit.
-Since 2.0 means “sharing”, “bad” content could be read by other student before the teacher. (-)
-Students will be expossed to many Englishes.(+)
-Real material from reliable publications (newspapers) could go directly to your students. (+)
- very easy to update (+)
-Hosting included
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More Info here…
• http://chungkaii.blogspot.com/
• http://inglesturismo0607.blogspot.com/
