Practical activities using offline digital resources for language

Practical activities using offline digital resources for language learning Marcus Tubby Cambridge University Press 15 th November 2012

methodology • • • Reaching out to digital natives A change is as good as a rest Practice makes perfect It’s still your classroom Communication doesn’t have to stop Use technology effectively

overview • • • Word-processing software audio recording Presenting software CD-Roms Digital books

Dictagloss

audacity. sourceforge. net

presentations

CD Roms

Digital books

review • • • Word-processing software audio recording software Presenting software CD-Roms Digital books

Thank you! mtubby@cambridge. org marcustubby. wordpress. com

• Speaking / Listening skills: using Audacity (open source recording facility)– speaking skills, pronunciation, comparing production to models, student self-assessment and improvement - eg roleplay complaint & record it, another pair listens and writes letter of complaint, another pair writes back responding to complaint • G & v, int. comm (esp. first), pron, fluency & cohesion • Pron from cd rom?

• • CDRoms – learner training – disk quiz Digital Books Exam practice – listening Powerpoint presentations – with peer assesment / or comprenhension quiz written by presenters – focuses on Q form which is common weak area • Word – adding comments, by peers and by Ts