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This document presents the process as well as the final product of my inquiry carried out throughout the 2010 Fall semester at University of Maryland and three Publics Schools as part of the Fulbright program for Distinguished Awards in Teaching. I have focused my research on how New Technologies of Information and Communication are being incorporated to the teaching of languages in general and to Task-Based Learning specifically.

Aurelia Garcí[email protected]

home country: ARGENTINAhost country: USA

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to the Fulbright Commission, Bureau of Educational and

Cultural affairs, the US Department of State, and the Academy of Educational

Development (AED) staff for giving me the opportunity to be a part of the

Distinguished Award in Teaching Program.

At the University of Maryland, Dr James Greenberg, Mrs. Letitia Williams

and Dr Lea Ann Christenson as well as my teachers and mentors Dr Roberta

Lavine and Dr Jennifer Turner are among the special people who have been

supportive in this memorable experience.

I want to mention the thoughtful input from my roommates and all my

other Fulbright colleagues who have been generously sharing their experiences

and projects, enlightening my own.

I am grateful to my PDS coordinators, Mrs. Peggy Wilson and Mrs. Stacy

Pritchett, school administrators, teachers and students from Samuel Ogle

Middle School and Montgomery Blair High School, where I could make

observations and interviews and take photos and field notes that substantially

contributed to my collection of data.

A great deal of support has come from my dear children, mother, family,

friends and colleagues from Argentina who have encouraged me in the

fulfillment of this lifelong dream.

Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching Program The Incorporation of ICTs into Task-Based Language Learning

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RESEARCH PAPER

The Incorporation of ICTs Into Task-Based Language Learning

LITERATURE REVIEW

WEB-BASED LEARNINGIn the last decade, we have been witnessing a shift in the nature of Internet.

It has changed from a static, information-provider environment in which

students and teachers were able to explore, select and adapt the content they

found useful and transform it within the context of their interest, to a dynamic

social environment in which everyone can participate in an interactive sphere,

becoming not only consumers, but also producers of content.

Computers and electronic technologies have come to permeate our daily

lives, our homes and our schools. As a consequence, integrating them into the

classroom pedagogy is becoming a reality for teachers who are supplying

students with the possibility of learning a specific content at the same time as

they are incorporating technology skills.

Becoming techno-teachers is not an easy task. In the first stages, they

generally have to find support from their institutional environments, to allow

them to share the school or University virtual platform. After that, they will have

to be able to satisfy their special requirements according to the language

learning experience they want to propose - an instance in which lab technicians

and administrators become involved.

After dealing with all the administrative and technical issues, the real work

starts: planning the course or activity, looking for Web resources, moderating

and tutoring, solving students technical problems (with patience and positive

feedback, so that they start feeling confident with the proposal as well), creating

WebPages (google groups, blogs, forums, google sites) where all the

productions can be shared.

As Hanson-Smith and Rilling (2006) state the available technological tools

have made impact in teachers’ practices in three different areas:

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1- Administrative: teachers use the computer to keep records of students’

assignments, attendance, mailing to parents, lesson plan presentations,

online professional development. This use of technologies has proved to

make teachers and administrators work more efficient.

2- Blended: teachers and students use computers to complement

classroom activities with a computerized activity. They sometimes share

two or three computers which are connected in one corner f the

classroom or they move to a computers lab where, in general, they have

more computers available and a technician. Blended learning can also

take place while using home or public computers outside schools.

3- Distance: teachers also use computers to support distant learning,

where students and teachers only meet in virtual environments and

computers become the only means of communication and instruction.

Placing the focus of this inquiry on the blended use mentioned above, it can

be assumed that new technologies are reshaping learning as a two-way

process. Instead of presenting content in a linear, sequential manner, learners

are provided with a rich array of tools and information resources to use in

creating their own learning pathway. (Arena & Crubinel, 2010)

Technology-rich environment provides two options to language learners:

1 - Internet Software Resources which are delivered over the internet through

school platforms and where students can access for some specific practice

purposes. In general they are more teacher-controlled and the software itself

gives incentives or rewards to students who go on through different phases or

stages of a game-like practice. Examples of these are: Kidspiration, a K-5

learner’s oriented software that develops thinking, literacy and numeracy skills

using proven visual learning principles. In reading and writing, Kidspiration

strengthens word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension and written

expression. With some new visual math tools, students can build reasoning and

problem solving skills. Another example is Study Island, a Web-based

instruction, practice, assessment and reporting software, built for different states

´ standards over rigorous academic content that is both fun and engaging.

2 - Internet Communications Resources which allow students to manipulate

language skills such as reading, listening, speaking and writing, interact

http://www.studyisland.com/

http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration


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collaboratively, or share Web-based project from their own classmates or

students from different parts of the world as well. This communication can take

the form of synchronic, in real time, o asynchronic, or not in real time. Teachers

can profit more for the development of an integrated-skills approach using a

variety of collaborative resources – blog, email, wiki, podcast.

This new cooperative and participative environment offers teachers a

whole realm of possibilities that could really make a difference in the teaching

setting. Then the question now is:

How can teachers effectively use these online spaces…

a) to engage students in meaningful, cultural connections,

b) through collaborative interactive projects

c) that promote authentic, contextualized, culturally enriched exchanges,

d) having English as a tool for communication and learning?

Web 2.0 tools –defined as World Wide Web technology and web design that

enhance creativity, communications, information sharing, and collaboration- not

only have the power to revolutionize our classrooms and schools, they also

have special value for English language learners. Our students are now

empowered to create content, publish it and share it with others. Needless to

say, when students write or speak for a broader and more international

audience, they tend to pay more attention to revising.

In addition, Web 2.0 tools also prepare students to meet the demands of the

21 st Century Skills , delineated by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which

suggest students need to develop additional skills apart from the acquisitions of

the increasing subject areas contents. These skills are referred to as the 4 Cs:

critical thinking and problem solving, cross-cultural communication,

collaboration and creativity and innovation skills.

Based on the premise anticipated by John Dewey (1997) that language is a

social and cognitive phenomenon, teachers should foster communicative and

sociolinguistic competence through a range of activities that require interaction

and negotiation of meaning for their completion. Wiki contexts, threads of

discussion -whether written or voiced-, or chatting are significant means of

http://www.p21.org/

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achieving these competences and of taking students a step forwards the

electronics media consumption industry.

The gift of time, as Lori Langer de Ramirez (2010) describes, is

something schools cannot give English language learners in the amount they

would need; so by using these new technological tools teachers are offering

students a learning maximizer. Web 2.0 can provide extra opportunities to

engage in meaningful language-learning tasks from the comforts of their homes,

libraries or cybercafes.

Both advanced and beginning learners can profit from Web 2.0 tools. It is

in general easier to see its benefits when we focus on advanced learners since

they can skillfully manage a wider variety of language tasks; however,

beginners can equally benefit from being in a more anonymous atmosphere.

They sometimes may feel reticent to speaking in public or reading out loud their

work; nevertheless, Internet offers them the possibility of drafting, editing, peer

correcting – to improve their writing skill - and recording, checking and

rerecording themselves – to improve their speaking skill-, until they feel

confident enough to share their creations.

TASK- BASED LEARNINGCommunicative language teaching has been the umbrella approach under

which many other approaches and techniques have developed. Among them

Task-Based Language Learning (Nunan 2001, Willis 1996 Norris 2009) has

lately become the most prominent. This methodological approach focuses on

students using the language to solve tasks, placing an important emphasis on

meaningful real life situations over form and knowledge of the language system.

This problem-solving methodology allows not only learning skills but mainly

procedures and concept learning. Working with problems and tasks facilitates

understanding of reality through the use of some methods such as solving

strategies, experimental or observational techniques. Teachers have three main

roles within this approach:

1. selecting, adapting and designing tasks;

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3. creating techniques to help students become aware of the form of the

language being required to solve the task, without making of these

grammar points the focus of the design.

There are a number of researchers who have defined what a task is in the

language learning context from a psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic or pedagogic

viewpoint. Yet Candlin´s (2009) definition adjusts quite well to the use

suggested in this paper from a teacher´s and practitioner´s standpoint.

A language learning task is a set of differentiated,

sequencable, problem-posing activities involving learners and

teachers in some joint selection from a varied cognitive and

communicative procedures applied to existing and new knowledge

in a collective exploration and pursuance of foreseen or emerging

goals within a social milieu. (Candlin, 2009)

Whatever definition is adopted, since teachers are concerned with

learning, certain pedagogical goals should guide their task-based curriculum

design. Among them Candlin mentions: awareness, responsibility, tolerance,

self-realization and self confidence.

As students carry out the task, they become aware not only of the language

forms involved in the resolution of the situation, but also of the sociolinguistic

factors that intervene in the interactions. Furthermore, students become

independent users of the language when deciding how to solve a task when

they must feel responsible for the choices they make and the challenges they

accept as learners. At the same time, cultural tolerance is another goal task-

based learning pursues, when showing learners a range of situations in which

they have to face cultural diversity and multi-cultural contexts.

Task designing is a major task in itself, since teachers should provide

students with situations they can acknowledge as challenges rather than threats

and situations that can develop their sense of self-confidence and self-

realizations.

The purpose of a task in the classroom is to stimulate real communication,

creating an authentic purpose for language use while providing a natural

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context for the study analysis and reflection on it. Students prepare to solve a

specific problematic situation, solve it, and report on their findings; and only

then, they then focus on the study of language that emerged in the situation.

All that the teacher plans to develop and everything that happens in the

teaching-learning process translates into activities. Each activity has a number

of features, and here are three moments in this program of activities appropriate

to the teaching of English under the TBL as follows:

Activities related to the search, recognition, identification and

formulation of problems:

The problem should not be considered only as an initial condition but a process

that is developing, reshaping and diversifying in parallel to the process of

implementation of the methodology for learning English. Another key aspect of

this methodology is clear in advance that there is not always a single correct

solution, but that the resolution is open to multiple learning opportunities of

emerging issues around the main shaft.

Activities that facilitate the resolution of the problem:

This is achieved through interaction between students' conceptions regarding

the use of language, as evidenced by the problem, and new information from

other sources. Looking at the constructivist conception of learning we must

admit that it is produced by interaction between the knowledge available to the

student and the new information he/she receives. Conceptions that students

have about academic subjects sometimes differ from the contents of the

curriculum. The curriculum tends to be deeply rooted in the individual and is

very resistant to change. It is necessary then, as a first step, to help students

explain these concepts so that the teacher gets an overview of which may affect

the learning process and students - being aware of their own ideas - put them in

a position to reflect upon them and confront them with new information which

will lead to its possible restructuring, and the construction of new knowledge.

Activities that facilitate the synthesis of the work, drawing

conclusions and expressing the results.

The English language at this stage becomes the vehicle for solving a task, but

the emphasis is on meaning and communication rather than in the production of


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grammatically correct utterances. Drawing conclusions is closely related to the

construction of knowledge that the student is achieving. But the final review

promotes knowledge restructuring and conceptual clarification. Stating in detail

the task of synthesizing the results helps to establish learning. Moreover, if it

provides students with the opportunity to implement their new learning it will

encourage students´ confidence in their abilities.

By teaching through problem solving the teacher becomes a researcher

and connoisseur of reality along with the student. Assessment is made naturally

in contact with the student, supervised by the experience and the analysis done

with the teacher. Student and teacher, in a really close relationship, both are

involved in the task, reporting on the progress being made; both of them are

actually reading and understanding the whole process.

Tasks can take different forms and there is a wide range of tasks that

teachers can design depending on the context, level and needs of the students.

Though many authors have suggested different task classification, Willis (1996)

organizes them in a very complete manner that can guide teachers and inspire

them as regards the most suitable task to implement. However, teachers are

encouraged to understand Willis´ taxonomy as a flexible guide since tasks may

be planned under one format, but as students develop it, teachers may realize

some other format is more suitable and she must feel free to change it.

TYPE SAMPLE TASK

Listing Make a list of the items they would need for a weekend

camping by the river. They complete their lists in pairs and

choose among themselves the most sensible list.

Ordering

or sorting

Sts. Choose from the show page of the local newspaper two

events they would like to attend over the weekend. They

persuade each other until they finally agree on only two for the

whole group.

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Comparing Sts. design in groups an itinerary for a group of foreign middle

school students who come into town for the weekend. All

groups present their reports and the whole class compares and

finds differences among the proposals.

Problem-

solving

Our school´s 100 years anniversary is next month and students

have been invited to participate in the organization of the

commemorative dinner. In groups of four make a list of

suggestions for that event. Share your ideas with the rest of the

class and decide on a formal proposal to be given on the

school´s parent´s day.

Experience

sharing

Childhood memories always awake memorable stories from

students. The task would be telling the scariest childhood

memory /most memorable moment of childhood glory and

writing a book including all the stories to he handed in to

parents in school parents’ day.

Creative Students are given the blueprints of the school plan and they

have to make any necessary alterations so that the building

can be transformed into a cultural centre/hospital/street

children´s home. All the new blueprints should be exhibited in

the school´s hall ways.

Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects about task-based learning is

the discrepancy that we sometimes face between teachers intentions when

planning a task and what students final outcomes results in. In general teachers

spend quite lot of time designing a task, putting restrictions on it and setting

limits for possible language forms, linguistic contents and final products. Part of

the magic of this approach relies on how much we can teach that is beyond our

planning, just out of our students’ ideas. Students’ reinterpretation of the task

should allow teachers to reformulate and evaluate permanently their task

proposals making them richer and more motivating and challenging.

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With this new web 2.0 online environment English language teachers are

faced with a great challenge: finding ways to promote students interaction and

communication in the target language through carefully designed tasks. Once

the need for connection is needed students will be solving the task by

negotiating meaning, debating and arriving to conclusions.

There is no magic formula or templates that can assure successful

interventions because projects can take multiple shapes. Nevertheless, Arena &

Cruvinel (2010) suggest a number of steps that could be used as a guideline.

Teachers will have to remember that educational settings and pedagogical

needs are their priority, so adaptations to these guidelines are welcomed.

First, teachers should identify needs, topics and decide on concrete goals

that will guide their practice. Then, they should come up with the most suitable

tools and the design of the specific task. Finally, they should implement the task

and start immediate evaluation of the process so as to make the necessary

adjustments before the final product is achieved. A final evaluation of the project

is equally advisable to allow teachers and students to reflect on the design and

technical changes that might be needed so as to bring the possibility of future

adaptations.

It can be assumed that the possibilities computers offer as regards types of

tasks can be infinitely multiplied. Teachers can engage students in authentic

learning contexts that will give students the opportunity of learning with pleasure

and commitment, validating students initiative as well as the groups

collaboration, characteristics which are, more often than not, absent from our

school realities.

Blake (2008) makes an interesting distinction between first-generation and

second-generation Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) tools. First-

generation tools include mainly two resources: email and discussion boards,

both of them have evolved and changed format throughout the years with the

development of accessories such as the possibility of adding images, graphics,

sound and video to the original text-only format. The main pedagogical benefits

from this category are that students became autonomous users of the language

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through a simple friendly technology interface, participating in exchange

projects with students in other parts of the world.

Second-generation tools, on which I particularly focus in my best practices

proposals, are exemplified by resources such as blogs and wikis. These tools

allow students to publish their own voice, as individuals or as groups, and take

responsibility for their productions as well as over the feedback, comments or

editing they do on someone else´s piece.

At a receptive level (Langer de Ramirez, 2010) they can sign into a podcast

website that provides extra listening practice or watch some instructive video in

YouTube. However, Web 2.0 tools work at their best when students are asked

to develop, create and share their own work online. It is in this way that students

are active learners negotiating meanings and creating media for a worldwide

audience. Students can meet virtually with classmates via the Web creating

blog entries, videos or comments on a classmate´s work1.

The web provides primary source materials, as Blake (2008) calls them in a

breakdown of inquiry-oriented activities such as webquests tasks, treasure

hunts, hot potatoes- in which students get involved in small scale research

projects or guided discovery to learn about a specific topic through real or

hypothetical solving problem situations and simulations. Each L2 student needs

to become a researcher on the Web, an interpreter of the culture, a careful

analyzer of cultural differences and an ambassador of diversity.

Blake cites ten methodological principles or language teachers’ universals

that teachers should follow when integrating web 2.0 tools into their practice.

Out of these ten, I mention here the five that I also consider apply to Task-

Based Teaching methodology. This provides the basis for a proposal for

integrated embedded task based language teaching:

Use tasks not texts.

Promote learning by doing.

Encourage inductive learning.

Focus on meaning rather than on form.

Promote cooperative/collaborative learning.

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Another illuminating theoretical model that can help us understand the

phenomenon is Kearsly´s Engagement theory. Its principle suggests that when

students are swallowed up in meaningful interactive tasks, they will feel

engaged in their learning process and progress. The author believes that

technology can have a relevant role in students’ engagement in learning tasks if

they involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving,

reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation.

Engagement theory is based upon the idea of creating successful

collaborative teams that work on ambitious projects that are meaningful to

someone outside the classroom. These three components, summarized by

Relate-Create-Donate, imply that learning activities should:

1. Occur in a group context (i.e., collaborative teams): Research on

collaborative learning suggests that in the process of collaboration, students are

forced to clarify and verbalize their problems, thereby facilitating solutions

2. Be project-based: making learning a creative, purposeful activity.

Students have to define the project (problem domain) and focus their efforts on

application of ideas to a specific context.

3. Have an outside (authentic) focus: stressing the value of making a

useful contribution while learning. Ideally each task has an outside "customer"

that the project is being conducted for. The customer could be a campus group,

community organization, school, church, library, museum, government agency,

local business, or needy individual. The authentic learning context of the project

increases student motivation and satisfaction.

What I find different in the Engagement theory model from other older

models of computer-based learning in which the emphasis was on

individualized instruction and interactivity, is that ET promotes human

interaction in the context of group tasks, rather than individual interaction with

an instructional program.

TEACHERS´ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTIt is essential that as teachers we start learning to communicate, collaborate

and celebrate via Internet and Web 2.0. With our students -through classrooms

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proposals that bring us altogether into a challenging common environment-, and

with other colleagues -whether technophobes or technophiles- in online

communities of teachers’ development, who have decided to take a step

forward, just as we have. Robert Blake (2008) states that the rapidly changing

parameters of the technological field have made first-time entry into using

technology in service of foreign languages curriculum a worrying task for many.

(pxiii)

Research on language learning with and through technology is definitely

resulting in new research methodologies. As a consequence, it is the role of

teacher trainers in educational training centers and colleges to bridge the gap

between traditional and XXI century methodologies. This will facilitate facilitating

instances of professional development allow teachers to become aware of the

educational changes taking place outside their everyday practice.

The need for post graduation support is described by Dahlman & Tahtinen

(2006) when they depict the first few years of teachers’ careers, as being

consumed by many duties: struggling to know the curriculum, developing lesson

plans and materials while, at the same time, having to deal with school issues

outside the class. Meetings with pairs and parents, as well as catering for

students needs, represent a great challenge since they do not count on the

mastery of veteran teachers who have already developed a skill.

Following the “teach what you preach” approach, Van den Branden (2009)

suggests giving greater credit to the in-service training offered on site, in

schools where teachers can find themselves at home, using their own computer

labs and becoming aware of their own schools possibilities. Such formats could

range from Schools-based or team-based coaching in which experts are invited

to visit schools on regular basis to offer teachers practice and coaching

according to their needs and demands.

In this context teachers need to create and join communities of practice for

continuous peer mentoring and experimentation with collaborative practices

supported and enhanced, precisely, by new technologies. Immersion in these

collaborative environments can provide teachers with academic and

emotional support, create tasks collaboratively that they can later use in their

own teaching environment and be encouraged to scan the contents of online

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A successful network should be aware of the participants’ variables. Such

variables as perceptions, teaching contexts, feelings, beliefs and imposed

standards, will define the characteristics of the network and its effectiveness.

These professional development courses should put together knowledge and

practice into an integrated plan to allow, in a collaborative and cooperative

environment, sharing new insights of their teaching practices now embedded

with technology.

One of the most difficult challenges is to design and implement an

embedded or fully online learning environment that can keep pace with

teachers’ specific needs and demands as well as new technological

applications which keep flooding the educational field. The professional

development proposal should provide the means by which teachers develop

their technological skills supported by peers´ feedback and suggestions. A

postmethod methodological perspective will enlighten these newly informed

teachers as regards which tools and resources to apply, when and where.

Still another enlightening proposal that has proved enriching for the less

novice teachers who want to share their favorite tools and learn about new ones

on the web are the Online Communities of Practice, such as Webheads. Its

founder has been able to explore since early 2000´s how teachers use

computer-mediated communication (CMC) in a constructivist setting, sharing

their approaches and pedagogical views on the issue, fostering the community

professional development. Communities find different tools to sustain

themselves together: internet chat software, blogs, photo galleries, email of text,

audio or video files are among the most successfully welcomed by teachers.

From this discussion it can be said that teachers’ development programs run

a gamut of options to allow novice teachers gain expertise in technology. This

can be achieved through different workshop designs depending on the amount

of face to face – online exposure they receive. The 4 or 5 days of immersion of

tsunami speed holds one extreme and the fully online distance home slippers

and warm soup being on the other.

Both extremes show advantages and disadvantages; however, an

embedded methodology seems to assemble the most outstanding benefits of

both. Alternating face to face meetings with online networking, teachers

http://webheadsinaction.org/

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gradually start feeling confident with the virtual platform and they return to it

informed and inspired, invigorated by others ‘experiences and comments

interwoven by technology. Technology makes us want to be permanent

learners.

Furthermore, when the policy is carried out under the Action Research

paradigm, teacher development will lead both: teachers and their students to

become critically reflective practitioners and computer assertive users. The

building of learning communities suggested in this paper will provide teachers

with a myriad of tools that both trainer and trainees can explore together,

followed by a critical reflection which will allow externalizing thoughts and

feelings.

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