During this week, I have read several articles related to the implementation of technology to plan lessons and to develop my students’ communicative competence.
From the link : http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/lesson_plan.html I learned about the importance of planning our lessons based on curriculum standards. We also wrote a technology-enhanced lesson plan using the format provided by the Innovative Technology Center at the University of Tennessee. In order do that, I had to review some concepts about the importance of planning lessons as well as the typical components of lesson plans. This website also includes some useful practice on how to write instructional objectives using the ABDC model.
I also read the paper “Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension” written by Andreea I. Constantinescu from the University of Washington, (Seattle, Washington, USA) http://iteslj.org/Articles/Constantinescu-Vocabulary.html The most relevant part of this article is that reading and vocabulary comprehension are closely related so in order to help students develop their reading skills teachers have to make use of technology and implement multimedia based- exercises to help them develop their vocabulary knowledge.
Another article I read is ‘E-mailing to Improve EFL Learners' Reading and Writing Abilities: Taiwan Experience” which was written by Chao-chih Liao and published by
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Liao-Emailing.html In this paper, the author points out the importance of using email to develop cultural awareness and promote cross-cultural knowledge by establishing key pals projects among ESL / EFL students with other students or native speakers from different countries. The author also gives some suggestions to implement these kinds of projects.
Finally, I checked the web site: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ I recommend it because it has complete lesson plans to develop reading skills by checking some updated and interesting topics. Some of the lessons also include listening exercises.
I encourage you to read these interesting sites!
Hi, Dear Wilma! Thank you for the post! I also love these readings and web-site. I found there so interesting files (in PDF format) that is so convenient to print and to look through. At these weeks we discussed about listening, speaking, reading and writing and we see that these skills have to e developed together. This is the fact that we have to pay attention on development all of these skills at one lesson and the articles that we suggested for reading at this week encourage us to do it. Good luck! Natalia
ReplyDeleteDear Natalia,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for your post and for your suggestions to improve my tasks. I really appreciate your help. It is really good to have you as a web mate and learn from you.
Wilma