MS FrontPage” Teacher Created Website and Its Use as a
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Teacher-Created Website as an
Instruction Tool in ESL and CALL
Classes
Lyra Riabov
Associate Professor
Southern New Hampshire University
TESOL Internet Fair 2003
Session includes:
Discussion: Application of MS Word, FrontPage and PowerPoint for teaching
ESL/EFL and CALL courses
Structure of Lyra Riabov’s Web site created for teaching CALL
(http://acadweb.snhu.edu/Riabov_Lyra/EFL537_CALL.htm)
and ESL (http://acadweb.snhu.edu/Riabov_Lyra/IEP.htm)
courses in IEP and TEFL Programs at Southern New Hampshire University
Challenges and Rewards of web-based hands-on teaching of the ESL/CALL
courses
Exploration of some TEFL/CALL students’ web-based projects
(http://acadweb.snhu.edu/Riabov_Lyra/EFL537_CALL.htm)
How to use interactive “FrontPage Discussion Board”
(http://acadweb.snhu.edu/Riabov_Lyra/Class_Discussion/default.htm)
How can the Internet and teacher-created Website be used as tools,
as well as resources for interactive, task-based language learning?
Teacher-created Website is an abundant resource of language teaching
materials;
Computer-assisted discussion offers interactive writing language practice: email, discussion boards, and interaction through project activities;
The written interaction fosters greater student participation and collaboration;
Language teaching becomes more individualized;
The class time is used more productively and effectively (Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab);
Learners gain maximum opportunity to be exposed to language in meaningful
context (A Trip to the Grand Canyon!);
Students can get in touch with the real culture of the language they learn (Great
Speeches);
Computer-assisted discussion encourages more equal participation (for shy,
quiet, loud, aggressive, and talkative students) than face-to-face discussion.
Some More Ideas That Circulate in TESOL/CALL Community
Interaction in writing encourages students to use better grammar and
more complex sentences and vocabulary;
Computer-based discussion can take place outside of the classroom, so
that provides students with increased opportunities to communicate in
the target language;
Web pages offer authentic materials for research on culture and current
events or for gathering material for class projects;
Students and teachers can also publish their own work on the World
Wide Web, thus enabling writing for a real audience. In some cases,
teachers have created in-class online newsletters or magazines;
Teacher-created Website and CALL courses have consistently been a
very popular and well-received component of the Intensive English
curriculum in numerous institutions.
Teacher-Created Website
Requires:
Money
Does it always work?
Training
NO!
Time Investment
Do you want to get into it?
Patience
YES!
Optimism
Rewards and opportunities
are ample
Structure of the Class Website
Course Objectives
Syllabus
Online Reading
Resources
ESL/EFL Online
Resources
Software Tools
Project Resources
Useful Links to the
Internet Websites
CALL Professional
Organizations
Challenges
What is the Best Balance?
CALL Theory
Research
Reading
Reflection Papers
Discussions
Practice
Applications
Hands-on CALL Skills
Selection of the most
relevant and up-to-date
topics
Challenges
What is the Best Way?
Teacher-created
Website as a tool of
instruction
Online resources vs.
traditional text books
Hardware and software
availability constraints
Utilizing online
resources and freeware
Selection and evaluation
of the Internet resources
Copyright Issues
Time constrains
Class discussions
Online chats & forums
E-portfolios
On-going assessment of
learning
Challenges
Technology Shock
Diversity of the
Balancing the challenges for
students’ computer
the students who have low
skills at the beginning of
and advanced computer
the course
skills
From elementary word
Daily hands-on assignments
processing to authoring Team work: learning from
a Website
each other
Rewards
The Process and the Final Project
Overcoming students’
technology and cultural
shock
Excitement of
presenting CALL
lessons
CALL applications in the
students’ other graduate
courses
Students’ authored
Website projects as the
practice field of testing
their knowledge,
acquired skills, handson activities, and
applications for the
future use in the real
world
Discussion Board
Select: “Discussion Board” on Lyra’s Home Page
Select: “TESOL Participants Discussion”
Read some of the points
Click: “Reply” and type your comments.
Click: “Post”.
Soon you will see comments of other participants
Have fun!