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Teacher Education for Languages with Technology / Formation des enseignants de langue avec les TICE
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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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In this article in ELT Journal, Crewe starts from the premise that "Used judiciously by a good writer [connective] ties can aid the communicability of the text; used badly they simply confuse. In the latter case, poor writing can instantly be improved by their elimination" (p. 317)
The notion that bad teaching based on decontexualised lists of connectives does more harm than good is taken up by Russell Mayne on his ELT blog http://malingual.blogspot.fr/2013/03/good-for-who.html?spref=tw&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=0a80e
Mayne asks "It may be nice for a teacher to present students with a huge list of exotic linkers, like some kind of extravagant badge of erudition but how useful is this for students[?]"
Crewe offers a number of practical solutions, which boil down to focusing on the underlying logic of the writer's argument - the meaning, not the form.
I like this suggestion: "[students] should be asked to delete or not use connectives in the first draft. They, or their fellow students, should then be asked to sketch the progression of the stages in the argument as a supplementary exercise. Suitable connectives should then be inserted, in moderation, wherever it is felt that the direction of the argument needs clarifying or strengthening" (p. 324) Delete the scoop?
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A website that lets you write 3 pages a day (aka 750 words), saves them, keeps them private, and lets you export if you like. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Obvious applications for language learning, but perhaps also for teacher education if you write about what you're doing, then share what you want? Delete the scoop?
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"Write in the language you are learning. Native speakers correct your writing for you. Help others learn your native language."
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Lots of sound advice about audience, speed and stamina, and practicing what you preach with EFL learner blogs from a seasoned ICT-oriented British Council teacher. Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: This post by "Learning Spy" David Didau concerns teaching native language writing in high school, but has ideas that can apply to second and foreign language writing too, as one reader points out:
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Shona Whyte: Very extensive list of websites and applications for all types of content creation: text, presentations, audio/video. Useful overview on homepage. Delete the scoop?
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"This site provides instructions for writing essays in English for a US academic audience. This site also contains academic essays by ESL and EFL students writing in English for university level classes."
Shona Whyte: Erlyn Baack, ESL writing instructor, ITESM, Quertaro Campus (Mexico) maintains the site http://eslbee.com on advanced composition for non-native speakers of English: advice, examples and exercises for academic writing for intermediate learners and beyond.
Here's a review by Jennifer Banton (University of Quebec, Montreal) "Advanced Composition is a clean looking unified site. It is well planned and easy to follow. There is no advertising to clutter the pages, and all images are directly related to the sites' content and purpose. The audience is specified, and the stated goals are achieved. The author takes great care to cite secondary information, and he includes useful links to related sites. All of this sets a very much appreciated formal and academic tone. In comparison to other Online Writing Labs, Advanced Composition stands out as one of the few which offers higher order writing instruction, including university level sample writing."
Via Vanessa Vaile of Blogging English. Delete the scoop?
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"Free speech to text dictation software in a browser."
Shona Whyte: This tool works in Chrome: 1. Choose your language (default US English, but there are over a dozen more, from the main European languages to Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese) 2. Click on the green mic button 3. Say what you want to say 4. Watch your text appear, edit if necessary 5. Save, print, share ....
Martin Burrett of ICT magic: "A useful site that allows users to dictate and generate text. A great resource for children with writing difficulties to get their ideas written quickly." Via ICTmagic Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: Well-structured and detailed summary by Laura Patsko of Twitter discussion by EFL teachers on giving feedback on learners' writing.
Practical suggestions as well as reflection on practice, with links to tools and resources at the end. Useful for pre-service and practicing language teachers.
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My adventurous colleague Margarita Georgieva, who teaches EFL in higher education, recommends Quest. Download the programme to your computer (she uses it with students in a computer lab), then play or create text games.
Reading, writing, collaboration, clear authentic task ... Don't know if I'm ready to take the plunge, but interested to hear from others who have. Delete the scoop?
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Isabelle Jones has a nice selection of activities and tools to help learners develop productive skills from their receptive comptences. Delete the scoop?
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"This free tutorial is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of APA Style."
For pre-service teachers, AKA masters students. Delete the scoop?
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Corpora interfaces VIEW: Variation in English Words and Phrases (online) http://view.byu.edu/MICASE: The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (online) http://micase.umdl.umich.edu/m/micase/ ;
Using Google as a corpus http://www.hltmag.co.uk/may00/idea.htmhttp://www-writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej26/int.html
Corpus exercises
Learner errors http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/concord2adv/errors.htmhttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/my-english.html Word families http://www.uefap.com/vocab/build/building.htm Phrasal verbs
http://eslcafe.com/pvhttp://englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html
Presentation skills http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art1.html
Transitional devices http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm
Academic writing and register Delete the scoop?
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Tutoring services at the National Park Community College in Arkansas have this 27-page annotated collection of links to other university resources for writing: from topics and planning through drafting, revising, and editing, style sheets (APA, MLA), plagiarism. Suitable for high intermediate/advanced EFL/ESL students, particularly EAP, but also for instructors to select from. I can't find an author or a direct link from the website, but this resource certainly deserves a wider audience.
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Shona Whyte's comment,
January 20, 3:34 AM
There seems to be a lot of interest in this sort of resource. I'm curious about how people see it being used for language teaching and learning.
Robin Yu's curator insight,
January 23, 5:22 PM
An excellent resource that works as a corpus for EAL and CLIL teachers alike. Delete the scoop?
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Online ESL writing workshop
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Clear and concrete advice in oral and written form for getting ready to write, developing ideas, revising, editing, and polishing work, plus an instructor guide, help avoiding plagiarism, and links to external resources. Suitable for low-intermediate learners and beyond. Delete the scoop?
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Writing in English for Academic Purposes: challenges for teachers (and how to overcome them) Martin Hewings
Shona Whyte You have to register for the site, but the webinar seems to be free. Delete the scoop?
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"Primary Resources - free worksheets, lesson plans and teaching ideas for primary and elementary teachers."
Teaching materials intended for young native speakers, which can be used for reading and writing work with young EFL learners. Includes text, PDF, powerpoint and interactive whiteboard (Notebook) files. Delete the scoop?
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"Welcome to the online text analysis tool, the detailed statistics of your text, perfect for translators (quoting), for webmasters (ranking) or for normal users, to know the subject of a text. Now with new features as the anlysis of words groups, finding out the keyword density, analyse the prominence of word or expressions. Webmasters can analyse the links on their pages. More instructions are about to be written, please send us your feedback !" Delete the scoop?
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Shona Whyte: Nik Peachey has this collection of writing tools on Meaki, including collaborative writing spaces - notepads, wikis, online whiteboards - writing prompts (Toasted Cheese) and spelling/word frequency checkers. Via Rita Simons Santiago Delete the scoop?
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Jackie Gerstein: "The "I Am Poem" is a template-based poem that requires students to represent themselves in the form of poetry as well as in visual form."
Shona Whyte: This is a great activity for intermediate learners and above, or it could be simplified for young learners. Class members write a poem about themselves using the template, then e-mail their poems with a photo to a Flickr account or shared Google Docs presentation. All class members can view each others' poems, and they can then be shared in class with each person reading their contribution aloud. Delete the scoop?
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Using Jing to record your screen as you provide feedback on students' written work.
Nice presentation of learning task, example of student response and teacher's feedback, followed by a walk-through of screencasting software Jing.
So pedagogy, technology, concrete examples - what's not to like? Delete the scoop?
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This site has any number of writing prompts, designed for English native speakers, but eminently suited to learners at intermediate levels or beyond. This page has exercises on a theme ("write what you dig") and you can read a related article for the rationale. There is also a calendar with short daily prompts, challenges to get you started and keep you going, and a forum for feedback.
Useful for working on writing in class, but also for encouraging autonomous learning among budding Hemingways in your classroom. Delete the scoop?
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