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Unit (4) Internet Applications in TEFL

Unit (4) Internet Applications in TEFL. Dr. Nazmi Al- Masri 2012 The Islamic University of Gaza. Internet Applications in TEFL. Objective To empower pre-service teachers with the skills to use new technologies: ePals Global Community Mobile learning Email Facebook RSS

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Unit (4) Internet Applications in TEFL

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  1. Unit (4)Internet Applications in TEFL Dr. Nazmi Al-Masri 2012 The Islamic University of Gaza

  2. Internet Applications in TEFL Objective To empower pre-service teachers with the skills to use new technologies: • ePals Global Community • Mobile learning • Email • Facebook • RSS • (Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts & Vodcasts, Webquests)

  3. ePals Global Community ePals Global Community is the leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally. http://www.epals.com/index.php

  4. Mobile learning (M-learning) • Work in pairs or groups for 5 minutes and try to think of how you can use your mobile in teaching English. • Try to list at least 3 ways

  5. Mobile learning (M-learning) 1. Mobile has several features that can be used in teaching English. These features include • Camera • Video recording • Audio recording • Downloading • Internet access • Texting – messaging • others

  6. Mobile learning (M-learning) Teaching Task Read these 2 articles on m-learning and answer the 3 questions below: • HayoReinDers (2010) Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom. English Teaching Forum. No 3. pp1-33. Available: www.innovationinteaching.org. • Naveen K Mehta (2012) Mobile Phone Technology in English Teaching: Causes & Concerns. MJAL 4:2. pp82-92. Available: mjal.org/Journal/Mobile%20Phone%20Technology.pdf

  7. Mobile learning (M-learning) As a Palestinian English language teacher, to what extent can you use the above features to develop the 4 language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), the 4 language sub-skills & literary works (stories, poems and plays) included in English for Palestine. Work in groups, think and try to complete this table.

  8. Using Mobile learning in teaching English

  9. Using Mobile learning in teaching English Work in group and list 2 main challenges Palestinian English teachers may face in using mobiles in teaching English and 2 suggestions to overcome them.

  10. Email in teaching English Lab Task Familiarise yourself with the following features of receiving & sending emails: • Creating emailing lists • Sending CC & BCC emails • Attaching a file • Creating folders • Moving & copying messages into folders

  11. Email in teaching English • Work in pairs or groups for 5 minutes and try to think of how you can use your email in learning & teaching English. • Try to list at least 3 ways

  12. Email in teaching English Teaching Task • Read & summarise the main points discussed in this Article: Using E-mail in Foreign Language Teaching: Rationale & Suggestions. Available: http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Meloni-Email.html

  13. Email in teaching English Read & reflect in terms of language skills, learners’ level, etc. • Teacher: I have emailed you the course syllabi, course descriptions, announcements, & links 4 learning English, writing essays & research papers. • Teacher: In this activity, you are simply going to send me & your colleagues an e-mail message summarizing/ expressing your point of view about a story, text, picture, song or poem that we dealt with in class today.

  14. Email in teaching English 3. Teacher: I’d like each one of you to actively participate in expressing his opinion/feelings about a certain current issue, for example, release of Palestinian prisoners, the day of EidAdha.

  15. Email in teaching English 4. Teacher: In this activity, you are simply going to exchange e-mail messages with one of your colleagues asking (questioning) & giving him/her information about: • name – nationality, age, address • family – father’s and mother’s work • 3 interests (hobbies), hopes and wishes, • Other information.

  16. Email in teaching English 5. Teacher: I have emailed you good sentences or paragraphs written by some of your colleagues to enhance your writing skills, grammar, punctuation, etc (observe, imitate, create) 6. Teacher: I’d like each one of you to actively participate in an interactive discussion on a controversial issues, for example, …………(S-S)

  17. Email in teaching English 7. Teacher: Who is birthday today or tomorrow I’d like each one of you to email him/her a message of congratulations. (S-S) 8. Teacher: I used email for developing descriptive and narrative writing skills through emailing pictures to learners.

  18. Email in teaching English 9. Teacher:I used email to send learners a topic & some related points in advance to let them prepare for oral discussion or giving a presentation. 10. Teacher: I used email to promote learners' cultural awareness. 11. The teacher locates a partner classroom of either English native speakers or other students of English who are at approximately the same level & age as the home classroom students.

  19. Email in teaching English 12. The teacher divides the class into 2 teams: one team applies for a job -other team discusses, accepts or rejects, writes letter of reply. Or one team writes a letter of complaint - the other team writes a letter of apology in response.

  20. Email in teaching English Think & write some examples related to how email can be used to develop English language skills in relation to these points: 1. Description 2. Narrating events

  21. Email in teaching English 3. Reporting 4. Direct & indirect speech

  22. Email in teaching English 5. Prepositions 6. Asking wh-questions

  23. Email in teaching English • E-mail enables teachers to communicate with students faster & easier and can be used to develop most languages skills and sub-skills. Taking this statement into account, think and try to complete this table.

  24. Email in teaching English

  25. Challenges: Email in teaching English Work in group and list • 2 main challenges Palestinian English teachers may face in using Email in teaching English • 2 suggestions to overcome them

  26. Facebook in teaching English Grades 6-12

  27. Facebook in teaching English Home Task: Read the following articles to be able to do the next tasks • 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/20/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom 2. Using Facebook for educators – no need to be friends at all!

  28. Assessment • Lab sessions 40% • Attendance 5 % • 3 quizzes 15% • 2 assignments 20% • Methodology sessions 15% • Computer pedagogical benefits 5 % • Discussion lists for EFL Teachers/ Surveying 20 Websites 5 % • Mobile in language learning 5% • Final exam 45% • lab 30% - Thurs 27 December 2012 • Methodology 15 % - Thurs 10 Jan 2013 11:30

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