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- 1. Social media inthe language classroom
- 2. A web 2.0tool for language teaching with flash content Study carried out by Eda Gözde Girgin Procedia Computer Science 3 (2011) 627-631
- 3. The Project The Goal? -set an online classroom activity - assess their beliefs and approaches towards vocab learning - making learners “technology masters”
- 4. Who? What? When?Where? How many? • • • • • • Pre-Intermediate level high school students To teach English In Turkey – private school In the computer laboratory 29 participants 2010
- 5. What tool? • www.wix.com– a flash website • • • • • • • Create digital magazines Storybooks Texts Add pictures Music Videos Share via Facebook.
- 6. Collaboration/Teacher Support • Peer-to-peerassessment via… • Link to their website (wix) • Or via Facebook • Initial passage provided by teacher • Teacher gave feedback
- 7. Learning benefits? • • • • • • Computer skillsfor the pupils Enjoyment of language learning via computer Construct their own settings, preferences Gain autonomy Be part of a circle of “creation and correction” Asynchronous chat/feedback in English?
- 8. Shortcomings? • • • • High anxiety alleviator? Howsuccessful was it really? The data collected? – Control group Questionnaire?
- 9. Shortcomings (2)? • Questionnaire: – I believe that language teaching via the Internet is beneficial. • Replace with: – I believe that I learnt more vocabulary creating a web page on the various topics I studied.
- 10. Shortcomings (3)? • Questionnaire: –I hope to use more computer programs in the English lessons. • Replace with: - I hope to use wix to create other pages.
- 11. Shortcomings – thebig one • Reading/Vocabulary activity?
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- 13. www.wix.com • wix websitefor IDT1314
- 14. References • Warschauer Adevelopmental perspective on technology in language education, TESOL quarterly 36(3) (2002)
Editor's Notes
- #2 Element of the course that really interests me. I did it’s own PLE!Using social media in the language classroom is one of the areas that allows language learning to be undertaken with a constructivist approach. Social media From Science DirectTeaching instructor, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- #4 Goal – have student create their own settings of learning.The core objective – set an online classroom activity to the students and assess their beliefs and approaches towards vocabulary learning through this newly set content.It’s almost two-fold because They want to see if claims that “higher-level learning can take place in web assisted learning environments” (Tanyeli 2009 cited in Girgin 2010) are true AND“while learning languages, students will also be technology masters” (Warschauer 2002 cited in Girgin 2010)Making them tech masters who can use it as part of the communication, production of knowledge and research.
- #5 About 14 years old
- #6 It’s an add-on to class activity – goal to enhance vocab acquisitionGiven simple topics – pastime, leisure, music etc – and have to create their own websitesWhat did they have the chance to do?
- #7 Topic of the weekGiven a passage to read – the inThen via a task page they clicked on a linkThey then searched for photos, unknown words, info etcDeveloping reading skillsThey then created their own wix to illustrate their writing skills.Teacher read digital mags and gave feedback.
- #8 Capitals because did they enhance language skills? Debatable.Not enough feedback on whether they improvedFeedback via questionnaire about sts attitudes to the wix and use of tools in lang teaching.Enjoyment – anxiety … correlation.Autonomy – think for themselvesAFL Asynchronous chat – feedback in English – again higher-order thinking? Correcting each others errors.
- #9 Does a project involving reading activities via website creation help overcome anxiety Only 9 actually created anything? What did the rest do? - contributed to the questionnaireData collected did not, in my view, assess their beliefs and approaches to vocab learning. It looked more at their enjoyment and language teaching.A control group and a more well thought out questionnaire might have given empirical evidence.The questionnaire was leading and did not seek to find out if there had been any impact on vocab learning.
- #10 Should the questionnaire be yes/no?List what else….
- #12 If one of the statements was about reducing learner anxiety and how flash content can reduce learner anxiety – how would this activity reduce learner anxiety? It’s fun but would it reduce their anxiety when speaking?It’s restrictive. ?