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Teaching in the 21st Century

Pete Sharma

NATESOL / IATEFL ESOL SIG Teachers’ Conference

SalfordJune 2011

Aims

To provide twenty practical teaching ideas using technology

To share thoughts and experiences of T.E.L.L.

Overview

Six statements

Practical ideas

Open forum

(1) New era

(2) Controversial:Multiple perspectives

Multiple perspectives

Teacher

Student

Trainer

DOS

$$$

School

PublisherAuthor

Designer

Developer

Theory

Before and after

Corpus linguistics

(3)Technology - changed language teaching forever

(4) Range of course types

Course types

100% f2f80 / 2050/5020 / 80100% online

(6) Centralicity of pedagogy

What is it?“So what?”How to use it?

(5) The importance of ‘attitude’

Practical teaching ideas

1) Grammar2) Vocabulary3) Language skillsListening and readingSpeaking and writing

4) Phonology

Grammar

AuthenticRestrictedClarification(Scrivener)

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”

Grammar matrix

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

(2) Vocabulary - storage

Word frequency

Note-able words

(3) Skills

Listening

Then Now

“I’m going to play the tape twice…….”

Bookmark it! Choice – how many

times? with or without sub-titles?

Listening

Reading

E-lessons

E-book readers

Sony E-book readers Amazon Kindle

Nook

Speaking

Flip camera

Speaking – voting devices

“Students should turn off their mobile phones in class”

Vote now:1 – Yes2 - Unsure3 – No

Speaking

Timed anecdotes – task repetition

Writing - wiki

Refutation

Handwriting recognition software

Process writing

Brainstorm Edit

Review

Final proof

(4) Phonology

Pronunciation

Games