How to learn the medical English you really need Howard Vickers
Learning the correct specialist terms is important for doctors and nurses, but there is much more to learning medical English. Students of medical English can prepare for real-life situations by using role-play to practice the language skills they need.
How to learn the medical English you really need Howard Vickers
Learning the correct specialist terms is important for doctors and nurses, but there is much more to learning medical English. Students of medical English can prepare for real-life situations by using role-play to practice the language skills they need.
Learning with technology – teaching without (cotesol presentation)Howard Vickers
How can teachers support mobile learning without using technology during class? The presentation explores how students can bring real-life, linguistic experiences into class and how teachers can help the students learn from these experiences. Through exploring case studies, you will gain both practical suggestions for activities and guiding pedagogical principles.
Virtual quests dialogic language learning with 3d virtual worldsHoward Vickers
The incorporation of 3D virtual worlds into WebQuests offers a more exploratory approach to language learning, where the learner engages in social, immersive and creative activities as part of the quest’s research. This experiential learning leads the teacher to play a greater facilitator-role and to focus more on responding to students’ needs, and less on preemptively teaching. Dogme language teaching, with its focus on dialogic learning and emergent pedagogy, offers guidance in drawing on virtual world experiences for language classes.
Personal Phrasebooks draw on the PLE concept to focus the student’s learning on phrases (rather than at the level of words or grammar). It is a very practical tool to solve everyday linguistic problems. However, it is also an approach (like PLEs) that requires a certain level of learner autonomy. Teachers can suggest and encourage, but the PPB needs to be student driven if it is to become part of their out-of-class learning and included in everyday life.
Exploring out of-class learning - mobile devices - dogme language learningHoward Vickers
Language classes account for a relatively limited amount of the student’s learning – and much (perhaps most) of the learning is done informally, out-of-class. So, how can we as teachers change what we do in lesson to better support what the learners are doing out-of-lesson?
The ability to virtually visit real places offers practical and yet immersive ways to carry out real-life tasks. Services such as Google Street View allow language learning activities to focus on more descriptive language, while remaining relevant to the learners’ everyday life.
www.avatarlanguages.com
Google Docs and Wikis for Language LearningHoward Vickers
Google Docs and similar wiki-based programs simplify collaborative writing projects and can also serve as a shared workspace for the entire class. They are accessed via the internet and so are available independently of location or device. Students quickly learn how to use the programs, because of their similarity to Microsoft Office.
www.avatarlanguages.com
Wikipedia for Language Learning - a guide for teachersHoward Vickers
Wikipedia is well-known and has become a main source for initial research. Yet its interactive nature allows language learners to play a more active role, to gain an online voice and focus on accuracy and quality in their written work.
www.avatarlanguages.com
Learning with technology – teaching without (cotesol presentation)Howard Vickers
How can teachers support mobile learning without using technology during class? The presentation explores how students can bring real-life, linguistic experiences into class and how teachers can help the students learn from these experiences. Through exploring case studies, you will gain both practical suggestions for activities and guiding pedagogical principles.
Virtual quests dialogic language learning with 3d virtual worldsHoward Vickers
The incorporation of 3D virtual worlds into WebQuests offers a more exploratory approach to language learning, where the learner engages in social, immersive and creative activities as part of the quest’s research. This experiential learning leads the teacher to play a greater facilitator-role and to focus more on responding to students’ needs, and less on preemptively teaching. Dogme language teaching, with its focus on dialogic learning and emergent pedagogy, offers guidance in drawing on virtual world experiences for language classes.
Personal Phrasebooks draw on the PLE concept to focus the student’s learning on phrases (rather than at the level of words or grammar). It is a very practical tool to solve everyday linguistic problems. However, it is also an approach (like PLEs) that requires a certain level of learner autonomy. Teachers can suggest and encourage, but the PPB needs to be student driven if it is to become part of their out-of-class learning and included in everyday life.
Exploring out of-class learning - mobile devices - dogme language learningHoward Vickers
Language classes account for a relatively limited amount of the student’s learning – and much (perhaps most) of the learning is done informally, out-of-class. So, how can we as teachers change what we do in lesson to better support what the learners are doing out-of-lesson?
The ability to virtually visit real places offers practical and yet immersive ways to carry out real-life tasks. Services such as Google Street View allow language learning activities to focus on more descriptive language, while remaining relevant to the learners’ everyday life.
www.avatarlanguages.com
Google Docs and Wikis for Language LearningHoward Vickers
Google Docs and similar wiki-based programs simplify collaborative writing projects and can also serve as a shared workspace for the entire class. They are accessed via the internet and so are available independently of location or device. Students quickly learn how to use the programs, because of their similarity to Microsoft Office.
www.avatarlanguages.com
Wikipedia for Language Learning - a guide for teachersHoward Vickers
Wikipedia is well-known and has become a main source for initial research. Yet its interactive nature allows language learners to play a more active role, to gain an online voice and focus on accuracy and quality in their written work.
www.avatarlanguages.com
2. Google Maps Street View
Echte online tools - Ideaal voor tijdens de Lessen
• Online kaart service van Google
• Verbindt straat foto's met een kaart
• 'Bezoek' plaatsen alsof je er bent!
4. II. De student als toergids
Bezoek echte plekken online…
• Studenten geven een rondleiding door de stad
– Rollenspel toergids
– Beschrijf je favoriete stad
5. III. De student ontdekt steden
Bezoek te koop staande
goederen
• Online makelaars
– Omschrijving van
de goederen
• Google Maps
– Zie de locaties
A one bedroom, second floor period
conversion flat in good condition in Covent
Garden, with views along Chandos Place.
Within close walking distance of Leicester
Square…
Covent Garden, London
£70,000
6. III. Student ontdekt steden
Verken de buurt
• Beschrijf het (feitelijk)
• Leef je in (mening, indruk)
• Rollenspel (koop of verkoop het)
7. Ontdek meer....
Meer ideën en verder informatie
over Google Maps Street View
voor het leren van een taal op…
www.avatarlanguages.com/nl/howweteach.php
8. Wie zijn wij?
Een online talen school met een aanbod van...
.....een-op-een taal lessen
• Engels
• Spaans
• Overige talen
www.avatarlanguages.com