Week 13 : Quizzing Adobe Captivate

Learn the fundamental steps required to create and publish a quiz using Adobe Captivate 8. This brief overview covers all of the fundamental concepts and explains how grading and review works as well. More experienced users may also find helpful the explanations of new features that simplify and streamline the quiz creation workflow.

Week 12 Three Phases of CALL

There are 3 phases of CALL
     1. Behavioristic CALL is the first phase of CALL. It was based on the model of computer as tutor. Most of CALL programs in this phase entailed repetitive language drill and practice activities. In other words, computer was seen as a medium to deliver instructional materials to learners. PLATO system, which included vocabulary drills, short grammar explanations and drills, and translation exercises, is a good example for this phase.

     2. Communicative CALL is the second phase which gained importance in the 1970s. It focuses on authentic communication and use of forms rather than the forms themselves. 3 different CALL models were used for communicative activities: computer as tutor, computer as tool and computer as stimulus.

     3. The third phase is called Integrative CALL. It was developed in an effort to address some criticisms of the communicative approach by both integrating the teaching of four language skills.

Week 11 Advantages and Disadvantages of CALL in Language Learning

          First, the use of CALL to support in language learning provides students with the authenticity of the input. At this point, students can have an opportunity to interact one or more of the four core skills, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing because they have to use or produce text meant for an audience the target language, not the classroom (Garrett, 1982) Teachers can use CALL to provide easy authentic access to a variety of language learning resources and multimedia components of dynamic and such as input in all areas of language that teachers could not offer without additional teaching aids.

          Second, in alignment with the output hypothesis as articulated by swain (1995), CALL, especially computer mediated communication or CMC, helps encourage foreign language learners to produce comprehensible output. That is, interaction through CMC learners to receive input, to use feedback to monitor their language, a to produce output that becomes input for other learners (Egbert).        

Third, since language learners have different purposes, and classroom teachers might not be able to have way of responding to their purposes. CALL is able to provide learners with the kinds of information and support that they require to complete individual tasks and to respond to the  diversity of learner needs even within a single classroom structure.

Advantages and Disadvantages of CALL

Advantages

• Interest and motivation

• Individualization

• Appropriate learning style

• Effective use of learning time

• Immediate feedback

• Error analysis

Disadvantages

• Less-handy equipment

• Economical factors

• Lack of trained teachers

• Insufficient speaking programs

• Inability to handle unexpected situations

WEEK 10 The elements of CAI

1. Texts

2. Sounds

3. Pictures

4. Animation

5. Hypermedia or Hyper graphic

WEEK 9 Steps to design CAI

CAI design process. There are 7 steps.  

👉 1. Preparation

👉 2. Design Instruction

👉 3. Flowchart Lesson

👉 4. Create Storyboard 

👉 5. Program Lesson

👉 6. Produce Supporting Materials 

👉 7. Evaluate and Revise

Screen design of lesson. 

👉 Resolution of the monitor

👉 Using color

👉 The layout of the screen

WEEK 8 Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)

"Computer-assisted (or aided) instruction" (CAI) refers to instruction or remediation presented on a computer. These tools improve instructional qualities. CAI's were also known as CBTs (Computer based training) when they were used to "train" individuals for vocations.

1. Advantage of CAI

- Motivate student to participate.

- Students can learn by themselves.

- Use multimedia for interested.

-reduce the time and ode for learning.

- Students can learn anywhere and anytime.

2. Disadvantage of CAI

- Limit number of program.

- We have to use time to construct the lesson.

- Creative thinking limit.

WEEK 7 Corpus for classroom: Ideas for Material Design

In this paper, two researchers aim at highlighting several ways through which corpora can be integrated in language classrooms to teach students of various levels.

Corpus-based Activities and Ideas for Material Design.

💁 Elementary student: Collocations: make/do

👉 Verb pairing game

👉 Computer cloze activity

👉 Screen shot analysis

💁 Intermediate students: Modal verbs

👉 Contextual Analysis

👉 Cloze activities

👉 Spot the error activity 

👉 Multiple-choices

👉 Express yourself

💁 Upper intermediate students: Phrasal verbs
👉 Cloze activity

💁 Advanced students: Idiomatic Expression:
👉 Concordance Analysis

👉 Pragmatics: Situation analysis

WEEK 6 MODAL AUXILIARY IN BRITISH ENGLISH: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF MODALITY THROUGH BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS

This paper present about Modality, BNC web and Corpus Linguistics.

1. BNC web 

Provides means of corpus linguistic analysis. Is a useful device to explore practical usage in English Language. Beside common grammatical knowledge.

2. Objectives

Shed some light on modal verbs of which meaning are difficult to make distinction on theoretical background.

Affirm that modalities can be interchangeable due to different context, such as gender, type of data, perceived level of difficulty.

3. Methods

Three modal verbs (should, have to, must) will be scrutinized by available functions (distribution, collocation and concordance) via BNC web in order to offer empirical information, such as grammatical usage and discursive practice, of modalities in British context. Details of methodology in each function will be subsequently explained in results and discussion section.

WEEK 5 Using corpus analysis software to analyse specialized texts

Download the latest version of Antconc and watch YouTube tutorials from 

http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/

1. Run the program.

2. Open Files or Open Dir.

3. Choose the function.

4. Clear All Tools and Files before selecting opening new files.

5. Save Output to Texts File to save output.

                          +++FREE+++

WEEK 4 Digital writing paper

Questions for digital writing paper.

           1. What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes?

The learners always write slowly or illegibly.

           2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?

               digital writing is used to define a change in the writing environment where writing is produced on the computer.

           3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions?

Blogs

Instant Messaging (IM) - MSN, Line, Twitter, Skype, chat-room

A social network site (SNS)

           4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?

Learners actually type out what they want to communicate to the group or readers.

5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?

The symbolic abbreviations

Exaggerated or misplaced 

Emoticons  

           6. Which activity do you like most? Why?

For learning I should have the knowledge about digital writing and practice.

WEEK 3 The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching

The Definition of Multimedia

Multimedia is the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation and sound in an integrated way.

Components of Multimedia

          1. Text : It is fundamental element in all multimedia application. Teacher can use different size, color, and style to present information.

          2. Graphics : It refers to images and pictures such as, diagram, chart, photograph. Graphics can stimulate interesting, improve understanding ability of language.

          3. Animation : Animation is speedy display of a sequence of images.

          4. Sound : It is speech, music or any other sound produce by computer. In Multimedia, teacher can use more sound to help students English learning.

          5. Video : It is the visible part of a television. Video can offer more vivid information.

WEEK 2 Weblogs enhancing EFL students' English language learning

         This study investigated the potential value of Weblog use on English language learning in the context of a university in Thailand. It examined students' perceptions of and attitudes towards using Weblogs.

         Three types of Weblog used in the language classroom are the tutor Blog, the learner Blog, and the class Blog.

The participants of this research were twenty undergraduate English major female students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. Their ages ranged from 22 to 24 years and they were in the fifth-year of their studies.

The majority of students (14) had home Internet access. Most (13) students had had no prior experience of Weblog use before undertaking the course Reading and Writing for Academic Purposes II. More than half (12) of the students did not use Weblogs in everyday life. Not many (8) students repeated that they sometimes used Weblogs as a means for communication and contact with other people.

WEEK 1 Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

What is a Weblog?

         A weblog (or 'blog') can be thought of as an online journal that an individual can continuously update with his or her own words, ideas, and thoughts through software that enables one to easily do so. Unlike a standard website, weblog entries are made by typing directly into the browser and with the click of a button are instantly published on the internet. All basic document formatting, like spacing, bold, italics, underline, and creating links, requires no knowledge of HTML or FTP (File Transfer Protocol), so that anyone who can type, copy, and paste can create and maintain a weblog. However, with a very basic knowledge of HTML, users can extend their ability to customize the layout of their blog and even add pictures to enhance its attractiveness. Similar to an open journal, the accumulation of writings and other content creates both a record of learning and a resource for others. Furthermore, a weblog is interactive, in the sense that readers can respond to any given entry with a comment and even threaded discussions can take place depending on the software chosen.

         Even though weblogs have been in existence since the very beginning of the world wide web itself (Winer, 2002), free, commercially available 'blogging software of the type discussed in this article, seems to have made its first appearance in July of 1999 (Blood, 2000). Because of the relative quickness and ease of publishing this type of software affords, the number of users has grown tremendously since then, and we can now observe blogs being used for personal, educational, journalistic, and commercial purposes. In the following section, I will introduce three possible ways that weblogs could be put to immediate use with ESL classroom learning.

About myself

Hello Everyone

My name is Natthawut Niamjan

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English Major