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Teaching EFL to Very Young Learners, Part 2
While we were in the middle of exploring Cookie and Friends, I gradually introduced two more CD-ROMs, also by OUP. They are Tilly’s Word Fun 1 & Tilly’s Word Fun 2. Product Description Tilly’s Word Fun 1 – Topics Animals Face Family Food School Toys Tilly’s Word Fun 2 – Topics At home Body […]
In: Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, TEYL · Tagged with: Tilly's Word Fun, Very Young Learners
Teaching EFL to Very Young Learners, Part 1
I started teaching my child English when she was 3y8m old. The software that we used was very positively accepted, and the child was required to provide her responses using the computer mouse and clicking. The CD-ROM Cookie & Friends by Vanessa Reilly, OUP, was amongst the very first. Product Description Provides a colouring activity […]
In: Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, TEYL · Tagged with: Cookie & Friends, Vanessa Reilly, Very Young Learners
Structure of Human Development: Implications for Instructional Design
Piaget (1964) cited by E. L. Criswell (1989, pp. 35-36) developed the theory that children grow intellectually in stages: From years 0 to 2, children explore their tiny environments, and through physical exploration, learn that objects exist and do not change from day to day. This is the sensorimotor stage. This is a period of […]
In: Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles · Tagged with: Chapman, coloring activities, Criswell, Dollaghan, Kenworthy, Miller, Piaget, Very Young Learners, Wilkinson
Digital Storytelling
A digital story is a personal experience represented in narrative format. The script is amplified by including video, music, still-frame imagery, and the author’s voice. A digital story typically lasts for two to three minutes. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools p. 43 It must take ages to create such a story, but the idea […]
In: Collaborative Learning, Digital Storytelling, Educational Technology, groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools · Tagged with: Solomon & Schrum, writing skills
How Many Limited English Proficient (LEP) Learners are There?
According to the US department of Education, there were ca. 5,400,000 ESL students in the USA alone in 2006 and the number is increasing. ESL or LEP students are US fastest-growing population and are expected to make up one out of every four students by 2025.
In: ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, Statistics
Reading From a Computer Display
Have got a copy of Eleanor L. Criswell’s Design of Computer-Based Instruction at last. Here are some important although slightly dated stats People read about 25 per cent faster from text pages than they do from computer displays (Gould et al, 1987, cited by E.L. Criswell 1989, p. 83) In the late 1980s that might […]
In: Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Statistics, Web Design
To SEO or Not to SEO? Are blogs really doomed?
Bought a copy of issue 183 of the Practical Web Design Magazine after work today and flicked through it on the bus home. It’s very interesting indeed to see that there are as many suppoters of SEO as there are opponents to it. It’s actually the first time I’ve heard about someone who has gone […]
In: Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design · Tagged with: Calacanis, Mahalo, SEO
Web Usability
That’s the term I’ve been looking for ever since I started toying with the front page of my website. I initially thought that it was navigation that I had to address, whilst now it is clear that it is web usability, or rather ways of designing it. Unfortunately, I am no artist, which means that […]
Is Teaching & Learning PURELY WEB 2.0-wise a Must?
| View | Upload your own A nice basic summary (in somewhat broken Russian, but that is not an issue, the content offsets this minor drawback) with a lot of unstated assumptions, though. The basic supposition is that the learners MUST do everything online, and the question that is unanswered is WHY they have to […]
In: Instructional Design, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Tools
WHO is WHO in TESOL, CALL & Corpus Lingustics
Mark Davies Searchable Online Corpora Scott Thornbury A Dictionary of ELT Terms, Grammar, Discourse Analysis Ted Power Downloadable and printable worksheets & practical advice Jane & Dave Willis – Task-Based Learning – sample lesson plans Jack C. Richards Second Language Teaching, Error Analysis, Curriculum Development, Applied Linguistics Gavin Dudeney CALL, Second Life Susan Stempleski Cultural […]
