40 Practical teaching ideas for using digital technologies in language teaching

Pete Sharma

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Knowledge – Skills - Attitude

K S

A3 numbers

(1) New era!

Blended learningDigital immigrants vs digital natives

(Prensky)

Web 1.0 – Web 2.0 user content / collaborative

(2) Controversial:Multiple perspectives

Multiple perspectives

Teacher

Student

Trainer

DOS

$$$

School

PublisherAuthor

Designer

Developer

Theory

Corpus linguistics

(3)Technology - changed language teaching forever

(4) Range of course types

(5) Importance of attitude

(6) CALL is situation-specific

(7) Centralicity of pedagogy

What is it? So what? How to use it?

G1 - Conditional conundrum ‘How many conditional forms are there in

English?’ DoS: 3 / 4 / 5 / 5 plus “If I’ve got home, I’ll deal with that” unfinished TASK “If I was a doctor” ‘grammaring’

G2 - Infinite clone tool

Right or wrong?

“I am born in Poona”“I have seen Mark yesterday”“I am in London for two days”“If I will see James, I will give him the message”

G3 - Unlikely-likely language 40 persons / 40 people. We're at Stockholm / We're in Stockholm If we would have done that……. Did you do that already? / Have you done it

yet? If I was you / If I were you Charles, you're not understanding me

G4 – Future Pie

AuthenticRestrictedClarification(Scrivener)

G5 Grammar matrix

V1 - Word frequency

V2 Storage

Vocabulary Wordle Note-able words

Macmillan Open Dictionarty

Listening 1 - MEC

Then Now

“I’m going to play the tape twice…….”

Bookmark it! Choice – how many

times? with or without sub-titles?

L2 Lesson stream (Jamie Keddie)

L3 Listening and reading

L4 Sentences out of sequence

L5Options – sound only / no sound etc

R1 – Gapping lyrics

www.lyrics.comNick Cave

R2 - Reading

R3 E-lessons

R4 – The wonderful world of E-books

Kindle Alice for the iPad

R5 Screen reveal tool – speed read

Speaking

S1 - Flip video

S2 - Voting devices

“Students should turn off their mobile phones in class”

Vote now:1 – Yes2 - Unsure3 – No

S3 - Timed anecdotes

Task repetition

S4 Pecha Kucha

20 images x 20 seconds 6 minutes, 40 seconds

Death by Power Point

ペチャクチャ

S5 – Lesson one

Writing 1 – Note-taking - abbreviations

What are the Latin originals?Viz. - videlictN.B. – nota beneE.g. – exemplum gratisi.e. – id est

Writing - wiki

W2 – Peer correctionW3 - Refutation

W4 - Handwriting recognition software

W5 - Process writing

Brainstorm Edit

ReviewFinal proof

P1 – stress shift

TASK

Where’s the stress?

Record (vb)Record (n)

P2 – interactive charts

Pronunciation

P3 - Sound linkingTake it in / one apple / five elephants

P4 - HomographsRead / wind / row / tear

P5 - Past simple endings/t/ - /id/ - /d/

G1 – Mobile - recycling

G2 – customising games – NIODG3 Bridge Builder – Macmillan English Campus

Games

G4 – Digital die

G5 – Kooshball!