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Personalising English Language Teaching in Secondary Schools through Technology
3 Teaching Cases
Why Personalising?
• The higher the students move up the grade level spectrum, the bigger will be the gap of achievement in English.
• Students become more mature thinkers. • Differences in learning styles.
Using Sound Editing Software and a Class Blog to Enhance Students’ Oral
Presentation Skills
Yeung Li Wa, Jenny,Sha Tin Government Secondary
School
Personalising and Rekindling Interest in English Language Learning through Digital Storytelling
Wong Sze Long, ArmstrongHo Fung College
Blogfolios for the Professional Development of English Language
Teachers
Paul SzeDepartment of Curriculum and
Instruction, CUHK
Using Adacity and Weblog to enhance students’ speaking skills
Jenny YeungSha Tin Government Secondary School
Overview
• Rationale• Objectives• The Design • Benefits• Reminders and Advice• Further exploration • Questions and Answers
Why using CALL?
• A class size of 35 – minimal individual attention to students’ performance
• Ineffective peer and self assessment in previous lessons
Objectives
• To enhance learning effectiveness• To conduct effective self and peer assessment • To help learners become active participants in
the learning process• To offer a platform for students to learn from
each other • To provide an authentic environment for
students to do reflections and express their views in the target language
CALL lessons – the design (1)
• Sound recording Audacity • Weblog Wordpress.com
Lesson One
Do a 1.5-2 minute Individual presentations
Conduct self & peer assessment
Lesson Two
Focused practice: accuracy in pronunciation(Dictation)
1-minute Individual response
CALL lessons – the design (2)Before the lesson • Created a class blog – Wordpress.com• Wrote a post
-- stated the purposes of the class blog -- laid down the regulations
• Prepared a lesson outline -- learning objectives, tools needed, procedures
In the lesson • Explained the goals and introduced the tasks • Did a demo of how to record a sound file using Audacity • Introduced the class blog
-- the requirements and steps of uploading a file and writing a post• Went through the self and peer assessment form • Recording and uploading• Conducted peer assessment
Students’ Work Individual Presentation 1Connie (32)
Individual Presentation 2Dick (3)
Individual Presentation 3Chloe (28)
Dictation 1Tiffany (29)
Dictation 2Jaco (7)Derek (15)
Individual ResponseGrace (31)
Speech for a public speaking contestYan (30)
Benefits
• Learning effectiveness -- allows feedback to all-- conducts self and peer assessment meaningfully
• Learner autonomy -- involves students in procedural and learning choices
• A stress-free environment -- minimizes anxiety
• Focused practice in speaking• Sustaining interest in language learning
Reminders and Advice
• ‘Aim less’ - time constraint- task design
• Maintaining the class blog - appropriate use of language & the blog itself- file types, storage space
Exploring the other uses of a class blog
• Dictations• Announcements• A forum for discussing current affairs• An archive for essays and speeches for public
competitions • Sharing and recommending teaching resources • Other focused practice
e.g. pronunciation, intonation, pace, grammatical accuracy
‘Computers are basically an attractive nuisance.’ (Healey, 2000)
Healey. Deborah (2000) Changing Teaching with Technology. ELI, Oregon State University
Time for Professional Exchange
Digital StorytellingMotivating Remedial Students
Wong Sze Long, ArmstrongHo Fung College (Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen)
Digital Storytelling
• Enhances learner engagement (through a highly personalized task)
Subject and School
Subjects• 36 S. 2 students• All of them were from classes
School• EMI• Government-aided Secondary school
Teaching Procedures
1. Introducing DST and relevant language features (Lesson 1)
2. Developing ideas for the digital stories3. Script/ Storyboard writing4. Producing a digital story
Pros
• Meaning focus • More than a language task• Passive learners became active learners• Personalizing language tasks
Cons
• Managing a DST classroom• Limited language input and output• Practicality
All these should have been eliminated
• there were not enough headsets• some of the microphones available did not
work• the students’ pictures could not be imported• the Internet connection went down • the MMLC was occupied
The End~Thank You~
Background
A professional development course for 33 serving teachers of English in primary and
secondary schools interested in using technology in English language teaching
My concerns
• How can I put together a convenient platform for the teachers’ ongoing displaying of the teaching ideas and resources that they will be creating?
• How can I encourage them to inspire and learn from each other?
Prof. Yang Hao’s Blogfolio
http://edu595.wordpress.com/course-blogfolios/
My Attempt
• The teachers will display the teaching ideas and resources that they will produce.
• I will provide feedback, reminders, etc. through the class blogfolio.
• The teachers will be put in groups, and encouraged to view and give feedback to each other’s work.
• I will demonstrate to them my own ongoing project through the course.
Experience gained
• A useful, convenient, platform, for everyone concerned.
• The teachers were highly motivated to create and display their teaching ideas and resources.
• There was substantial mutual support and peer learning.