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IATEFL LTSIG - the website of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language - Learning Technologies Special Interest Group - is running a free
webinar, this Sunday 18 November at 10h GMT.
It's with a group of four Australian educators, sharing how they set up a social network for teachers in their region: 'Setting up a regional PLN on Twitter: AusELT'. In the webinar these educators discuss Twitter and other online tools they are using to enhance this network.
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Michael Wilkinson: "not all translators – and especially student translators – are prepared to invest in […] software, especially if they are uncertain whether they will be using it on a large scale. One solution is to turn to a freeware program such as AntConc.
The first version of AntConc was released in 2002 by Laurence Anthony. It was a simple concordance program, but since then it has undergone continuous improvement and development. The most recent “stable-release” version at the time of writing (February 2012) is AntConc 3.2.4(Anthony, 2011).
AntConc can run on Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems, but whereas WordSmith requires additional software to run on systems other than Windows, AntConc runs on all three systems without additional software. In addition, AntConc is able to process texts in almost any language in the world, including Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Moreover AntConc can process both UTF-8 and all legacy encodings on different systems, so it should be able to process texts saved in the operating system default encoding on all systems.
Like WordSmith, AntConc comprises, in addition to the concordancer, various other features, such as a tool for generating word-lists as well as a keyword tool that can locate and identify words that occur with an unusually high (or low) frequency in a corpus when it is compared with a reference corpus. However in the following I shall focus mainly on how well the concordancer serves the needs of the translator. Delete the scoop?
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GMT = UTC click link for world clock Friday, 17 May 2013 - Program Overview
Fri 1pm GMT/ UTC Main Venue ARTHUR Welcome Address by conference organiser Heike Philp, let’s talk online sprlShelly Terrell, ParentellaBerni Wall, RLI GapfillerSteven Herder, iTDiJennifer Verschoor, ARCALL Fri 2pm GMT/ UCT Main Venue ARTHUR Keynote Nicky Hockly & Gavin Dudeney, Spain & UK Digital Literacies Fri 3pm GMT/ UCT Main Venue ARTHUR Keynote Sirin Soyoz, Turkey British Council Story Sharing Web Conference Fri 3:30pm GMT/ UCT Main Venue ARTHUR Keynote Angelika Gütt-Strahlhofer, Austria daf Community DaFWEBKON Fri 4pm GMT/ UCT Main Venue ARTHUR Keynote Thomas Strasser, Austria Mind the App Fri 5pm GMT/ UCT Communication Break
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Programme for Friday 17th May, includes lots more speakers, and more the following two days. Delete the scoop?
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Gerard Stevenson reviews Bring Your Own Technology by MalLee and Martin Levins. Published by ACER, 2012 Delete the scoop?
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May 12, 12:04 PM
VOA Special English - karaoke-style videos where each word is highlighted in turn as the speaker reads. This one is an agricultural report.
While these videos certainly support autonomous language practice, some imagination is required to make them effective for learning. I suppose minimally a teacher would need to make sure the text was comprehensible, but I'm not sure what a good task or learning activity would look like either. Delete the scoop?
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"The challenge is to move from external motivation where students are forced/encouraged to focus to instilling internal motivation where they actually want to focus and the distractions simply evaporate."
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Interesting discussion (with references) about the problems of distraction when working online. Like the author, I sometimes have trouble focusing when working online and agree that the nature of the task in hand, rather than the inherently distracting environment, is probably more important. There are lessons for face-to-face teaching too concerning intrinsically interesting language learning tasks, rather than teaching to a test. Delete the scoop?
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Have your paper reviewed BEFORE you turn it in.
Grammar and spelling check, proofreading. Free online service developed by linguists and grad students.
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Recommended by an ESL teaching colleague in the US. Delete the scoop?
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Some news on the development on open-source collaborative editing and corpus tools; a Spanish corpus, reactions to OERs, MOOCs and more. Delete the scoop?
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Need to create online assessments for a flipped classroom or for a blended learning environment? Here are 26 tools to get you started. Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL Delete the scoop?
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"Student mobility is on the rise. A previous Communiqué of the Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Higher Education set a target of at least 20% of those graduating in the European higher education area having participated in a study or training period abroad by 2020. While this aim is very desirable, it does beg the question: What about the remaining 80% of students who may not engage in some kind of physical mobility during their studies?"
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Robert O'Dowd of the INTENT project writes about university level telecollaboration as a substitute for or complement to physical mobility. Delete the scoop?
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The aim of this module is to introduce language teachers to the use of concordances and concordance programs in the Modern Foreign Languages classroom. Concordancing is part of Corpus Linguistics, which is dealt with by Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson in Module 3.4. Section 2.2 of this module includes a brief introduction to corpus linguistics.
Authors of this module Marie-Noëlle Lamy, The Open University, UK. Hans Jørgen Klarskov Mortensen, Vordingborg Gymnasium, Denmark. With an introduction by Graham Davies, Editor-in-Chief, ICT4LT Website. Via Randy Rebman
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Undated module on Graham Davies' legacy website (most recent reference 2011, the majority from the 1990s). The authors recommend printing and reading the 50+ pages of information, then come back to the webpage to use the links to complete the activities. 
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This is a very thorough module on using corpus linguistics in the classroom. It is about 50 pages worth of materials. A great introduction or review of the uses of corpora, resources and related research. Delete the scoop?
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This is the first of two posts describing the initial and continuing development of an academic vocabulary syllabus. This post has been some five or six years in the making, give or take a few mont...
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A very detailed and copiously illustrated post by Adam Simpson describing the development of a vocabulary programme for EFL learners. References to research in vocabulary (Nation) and corpus tools. Delete the scoop?
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Nobody can speak without pronouncing. Pronunciation tends to be neglected by teachers, but learners often rate it as a high priority. In this workshop, we will do some practical recognition and production activities, taken from The Book of Pronunciation, designed to help learners with sounds and sound sequences, pronunciation and spelling, word stress, rhythm and intonation.
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Irresistible title for this hands-on workshop. 50 minute video. Delete the scoop?
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Landesinsitut für Pädagogik und Medien Saarland
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Conférence en ligne gratuite 
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May 3, 12:43 PM
I'm interested! Do I simply need to log on to the site at the hour mentioned?
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May 7, 4:17 PM
Yes, you can just "show up" at the right time, or you can contact Jürgen Wagner ahead of time to sign up. A bientôt en ligne :-)
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May 8, 11:58 AM
Inscription par mél à jwagner@lpm.uni-sb.de - utile mais pas nécessaire
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On the website of Laurence Anthony. Associate Professor at Waseda University Japan developer of AntConc, a freeware concordancer software program for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X
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Used in SGADS (Sensibilité de la Grammaire Anglaise au Degré de Spécialisation) research (Pic, Furmaniak, Debras) at the Sorbonne. See also June workshop to mark "the end of the SGADS project (Grammatical variation across academic genres), a project founded by the Research Council of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and coordinated by Elsa Pic and Grégory Furmaniak (http://www.univ-paris3.fr/2012-2013-du-discours-specialise-au-discours-vulgarise-sensibilite-de-la-grammaire-anglaise-au-degre-de-specialisation-140801.kjsp). The aim of the workshop is to present the main results from the project but also to extend the discussion to other related issues." http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1028.html Delete the scoop?
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By Mal Lee. What should schools, their principals and education authorities do when they recognise the ‘Rudd monies’ are spent? What do they do if their laptop lease expires this year? What lessons...
Education Technology Solutions, May 2013.
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Forthright and thought-provoking analysis of errors in technology implementation in Australian classrooms. Neither the "silver bullet" approach of simply buying equipment, nor the "ICT expert" bolt-on model have brought pedagogical transformation. What works is the normalisation of digital practices via "Bring Your Own Technology" (BYOT) among motivated individuals and institutions, with the IWB a key element of the "network plumbing" which facilitates the transition from a paper to digital work environment. Delete the scoop?
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Les premiers textes du volume 16, 2013 sont parus : Rubrique Recherche Rubrique Pratique et recherche Rubrique Analyse de livres Delete the scoop?
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***Scroll down for English*** Che tu voglia metterti alla prova con l'Italiano come nuova lingua, o che tu già lo parli ma ogni tanto voglia un punto di riferimento a cui rivolgerti per chiarimenti...
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This seems like a nice idea. I'm linking to it for next year's pre-service Italian teachers ; j'espère que les étudiants en master TICE pourront s'en servir directement ou pour construire leur réseau. Delete the scoop?
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For those doing postgraduate work in Applied LinguisticsDifferent sections on topics such as SLA (Jordan published a 2004 book on SLA theory), links to sites and videos on relevant research, references for theory and teaching, and advice on writing a thesis.
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Accessible and lively presentations suitable for graduate students and beyond; forthright and occasionally hilarious annotated reference list.
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Comparative tables for different graded reading series. Delete the scoop?
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Presentation accompanying "Developing L2 Pragmatics," by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, published in the first issue of the Currents in Language Learning Series, issue 63:S1 of Language Learning: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.2013.63.issue-s1/issuetoc
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Overview of research into "how learners come to know how-to-say-what-to-whom-when." This 40-minute slide presentation by the author offers a useful way in to her state-of-the-art article on second language pragmatics; the Language Learning article itself is open access.
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May 9, 8:41 AM
I haven't managed to get access to the article. I'm not sure if it's still available, but I suppose the presentation takes the paper content into account anyway Delete the scoop?
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Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for sharing this resource! ImageQuiz is a fantastic new website that lets users create image-based quizzes with ease. Just upload your image, choose a title, and begin tagg... Via Todoele 
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May 8, 3:11 AM
even if the concept is not new, it is great to see how effectively it can be used today
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May 9, 8:34 PM
Great language teaching resource, thank you for sharing. 
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May 14, 4:16 PM
Looks like fun and a great way to pre and post assess. Could also be a good tuning in activity... Delete the scoop?
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An older article, but still very relevant: clear principles for integrating pronunciation teaching into communicative oral classes, and numerous examples of activities. Delete the scoop?
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Réseau d'échange de savoirs professionnels en innovation, en recherche et en expérimentation.
"RESPIRE est un service de la direction générale de l'enseignement scolaire (DGESCO) du ministère de l'Eduaction nationale. Il propose des fonctionnalités de réseau social professionnel, d'animation de groupes de travail et d'accès à des ressources partagées à destination des professionnels de l'éducation engagés dans l'innovation, la recherche et l'expérimentation."
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Développement et accompagnement : Marc Février, CRDP / Mission TICE de l'académie de Versailles. Contact : marc.fevrier@crdp.ac-versailles.fr
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Does research engagement by teachers (i.e. reading and doing research) enhance the quality of their classroom practices? In this talk I draw on a series of studies which examine language teachers’ and managers’ views on this issue. The findings I report highlight a range of positive, hesitant and negative perspectives on the relationship between research engagement and teaching quality. What also emerges in the views expressed by teachers and managers are diverse conceptions of what ‘research’ means, typically emphasizing personal, practical and informal activities or, in contrast, those which are more formal, theoretical and academic. Neither of these conceptions of research provides a satisfactory basis for promoting research engagement as a productive professional development strategy. I will thus conclude the talk by outlining a conception of teacher research engagement which is feasible and rigorous and which has the potential to contribute positively to the quality of language teachers’ work.
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Borg highlights differing views of what consitutes "research" - unsurprisingly, teachers and researchers don't use the same definition, making collaboration challenging. Delete the scoop?
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