week 13

😍CAI😍

In this term we learn about CAI and the program that we use is Adobe Captivate 8. 

- Size that we use is 10248*768

- Text caption →is you need to add content or message.

- Text entry box →for regis page.

- Interjection for bottom

- Media is picture, sound, vdo, animation

- Preview → check you work during you do.

                   - play slide is play only one slide.

                   - project is play all of slides.

- Publish is use for last time when you finished work.

- Timing → Display for : Specific time and rest of slide

There are five bottoms for CAI including : Home, Next, Back,Summit and Exit.

Content in CAI including : Pre-test , Post-test , Lesson and Exercise.

week 12

Three phase of  CALL

1. Behavioristic  CALL

 The first phase of CALL,is recognized as the first phase of CALL. It  the audio-lingual method. This phase entailed repetitive language drills and practice activities.

2. Communicative CALL
The second phase of CALL,The focus of CALL in this phase is using the language or function. Computer provide context for student to use the language, grammar.

3. Integrative CALL

  The teaching of four language skills including listening,speaking reading and writing.

week 11

💻Computer Assisted Language Learning and English Language Teaching in Thailand: Overview💻

written by Attapol Khamkhien

            I learnt about Computer Assisted Language Learning and English Language Teaching in Thailand: Overview follow.

The Development of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)

          Computer Assisted Language Learning came from computer-assisted instruction or CAI and computer-assisted language instruction or CALI. Have increasingly contributed to the enhancement of English proficiency in all language skills.

Three phase of CALL

- Behavioristic CALL

   The audio- lingual method

- Communicative CALL

  speaking and writing. Using the language of functions rather than analysis of language forms. 

- Integrative CALL

  The teaching of four language skills including listening,speaking reading and writing.

Advantages and Disadvantages of CALL in Language Learning

Advantages

1. Students can have an opportunity to interact in 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 in the target language, not the classroom. Moreover, teacher can use CALL to provide a variety of language learning resource and multimedia of dynamic and authentic input in all area.

2. Computer mediated communication help encourage foreign language learners to produce comprehensible output.

3. CALL is able to provide learners with the kinds of information and support that they requires to complete individual tasks.

Disadvantages

1. CALL is limited exposure to the target language input produced by native speakers.

2. High cost

3. Efficient network system in class.

Educational CALL Programs and ELT in Thailand

A tool for information procession and display to a tool for information processing and communication.

-Tutorial programs

- Drill and Practice

- Demonstration teaching

- Games

week 10

🍎Digital Writing: Enhancing Ways of Teaching and Learning Writing🍎

Problems in Writing Class: Struggling Writers
This group of struggling writers is often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas. These learners usually have poor handwriting.

Digital Writing
Digital Writing is becoming a standard way of life for young learners within Generation M. 
Digital writing as the medium to communicate with each other.

Types of Digital Writing              
- Blogs
- Instant Messaging (IM)
- Social network site (SNS)


Characteristics of Digital Writing: Features that Support Struggling Writers

            Digital writing has distinctive characteristics and strengths. Many researchers report positive findings of digital communication application on various aspects related to language learning. First, many digital writing provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms. Second, learners want to communicate to the group or readers.The learners can view their language message as they produce them So, learners or those who have problems with spelling and low command of vocabulary. Finally, digital is  flexible for teachers to modify contexts to suit learner's language needs and interests.

Activities for Teaching Writing with Digital Writing

- Affiliate Group Chat
- Guess Who
- Scavenger
- Little Reporter
- Secret Admirer
- Role Play
- Peer Feedback
- Closed Group Community

Digital Writing: Some Concerns on Academic Writing
Many English teachers are still concerned that its specific register such as shorthand and emoticons. 

week 9

Steps to design CAI

1. Preparation 

    prepare the lesson, collect the content to use in program. 

2. Create Storyboard

     There are content, script, question and feedback.

3. Program Lesson

    step to change storyboard to CAI , Use the program to construct  lesson.

The component of CAI

 💗Message : Consonant or number

💙 Sound 

 💚Picture

 💛Animation

 💜Link                                  

week 8

❤COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION:CAI❤

👯What is CAI ?

CAI is is an interactive instructional technique whereby a computer is used to present the instructional material and monitor the learning that takes place. CAI uses a combination of text, graphics, sound and video in enhancing the learning process.

💁The purpose of CAI

It's can be attractive of students and motivated students to want to study CAI. The students have interjection during learning or have a feedback. Moreover, can check that students understand in lessons all the time.

 💇Types of CAI

1. Tutorial Instruction : show content and test in forms of message picture or sound.

2. Drills and Practice : It is a practice program. 

3. Simulation : It is simulation the real activity to student  for study.

4. Instructional Games : It is famous because student interest and want to know lesson from games.

5. Discovery : Students can learn from the experience.

6. Problem - Solving 

7. Test

❤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.

💔Disadvantage of CAI

- Limit number of program.

- We have to use time to construct the lesson.

- Creative thinking limit. 

week 7

💻Corpus-based Activities and Ideas for Material Design💻

written by Neveen Al Saeed & Salma Waly

Elementary student : Collocations: make/do

- Verb pairing game

   The teacher highlights some collocations to the students then students divided into two groups. Group 1 will have corpus-derived sentences without the verb make and do. Group 2 will have the verb make and do

Student stand in lines facing each other the ones carrying verb will take turns trying to pair their verb with the sentence to other group.

-Computer cloze activity

Examples : The little boy, Zohair, was sent to______coffee.

-Screen shot analysis

Intermediate students: Modal verbs

-Contextual Analysis

-Cloze activities

-Spot the error activity

-Multiple-choices

Upper intermediate students: Phrasal verbs

-Cloze activity

Advanced students: Idiomatic Expression:

-Concordance Analysis

-Pragmatics: Situation analysis

             Certain point of designing corpus-based  tasks include the ability level of the students, cultural and educational backgrounds. In class a specialized corpus is needed, EFL instructors and researchers need to make sure it is available at their institutions.

       

week 6

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

written by Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha

This paper present about  Modality, BNCweb and Corpus Linguistics.

📌BNCweb 

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

📌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.

📌Methods

Three modal verbs (should, have to,must) will be scrutinized by available functions (distribution, collocation and concordance) via BNCweb 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.

Modal verbs "must","have to","should" have been explained in theoretical usage in many textbooks and sometimes each one has been unforeseen patterns that co-occur with each modal verb and this will assist, at least, English teachers to give realistic examples to students from the top list of collocates.

week 5 Using corpus analysis software to analyse specialised texts

What is a corpus?

          Corpus is a collection of naturally-occuring texts in a computer-readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software.    

Sources of specialized texts

-Printed materials

-Word document texts

-CD-Roms

-Texts on the web

-Online databases

Getting started with Antconc

1. Run the program

2. Open file (browse and select targeted files) or open Dir (to select targets files)

3. Choose the function.

4. Clear all Tool and Files before selecting opening new files.

5. Save Output to Text File to save output e.g. concordance lines.

Analyzing Specialized Corpus

1. Terminologies and collocation

2. Local grammar

3. Style

          - personification

          - use of passive structure 

4. Content knowledge

          - use of acronyms

          - use of 'known as'  and  'to be defined as'  to clarify terms.

Week 4 Digital writing paper

😇What are the problems struggling have in writing classes?😇

             

                The problems that have in writing classes are often less motivated to write fails to organize their ideas. The learners have poor handwriting and writes slowly. In addition to, the learners lack of confidence.

😎What does 'digital writing' refer to?😎

'Digital writing' is a standard way of life for learners in Generation M.

🙇What are the three digital writing tools?🙇

           

             There are three types of digital writing such as, Blog, Instant messaging (IM) and Social network site (SNS)

💖Blog is a discussion, information or personal journey publish on World Wide Web which frequently update. Blogs typically include many features such as, comments, archives, like.

💖Instant messaging (IM) is types of synchronous such as, MSN, Line, Twitter, Skype, chat room. The users can invite a third or fourth person to join for discussion or exchange opinion in article.

💖Social network site (SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people share interest or interact with other. Such as, Facebook, Twitter.

😻How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?😻

💜First, They provide opportunities for users to use nicknames and enhances inter language communication.

In addition, enhances a peer feedback activity as student feel less threatened.

💜Second, learners actually type out what they want to communicate to the group or readers.

💜Third, promotes learners’ equity in term of interaction. Users can see everyone’s messages and respond messages in real-time

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

The things that person who teach digital writing should have are

          ➷ Have skill in digital writing

          ➷ Need to always practice knowledge.

          ➷Need to know people who famous or interest to invite into chat-room.

😙Which activity you like most? Why?😙

⇒Activity 1  : Affiliate Group Chat because this activity that the teacher can invite guest whom the teacher knows or interesting to students such as, foreigner, person who is in a music band to participate in the chat room or group chat with students

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

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

-Animation : Animation is speedy display of a sequence of images

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

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

❤The setting of Multimedia Classroom❤
We should to make sure that readers can deserve a better understanding of multimedia English teaching. There are many kind of multimedia that necessary in classroom
- MPC (multimedia personal computer) 

- VCD/DVD

- Amplifier and Hi-Fi acoustic system

- Overhead/slide projector

- Screen

- The internet access

- Cassette tape recorder

❤The necessity of Development of Modern Educational Teaching❤

           Modern educational technology is characterized by combination of modern education and modern technology. Also promote the development of educational thinking and model. Modern educational technology must lead to development of multi-media teaching. Multimedia teaching can develop and improve the modern education technology well

❤The need of quality education❤

        Multimedia is one of the ways to promote the development of quality education. Multimedia teaching provides a good education to learners

❤The need of students's cognitive mental❤

          Using multimedia teaching is very necessary, especially in English teaching. It is better complete 

the teaching task

The Multimedia teaching

Multimedia teaching have many advantages and problems in English teaching 

☺Advantages☺

-Multimedia can stimulate students to interest of learning English

-Multimedia improve students self-learning ability: students have freedom of learning English

-cultivating student communication skills : student practice communication to use English and can

create real-scenes in the classroom

-Increasing classroom capacity: the use of multimedia teaching can make students know a clear 

knowledge 

 ⚠Problems⚠

-confusion: some teachers have only a CD-ROM courseware for students or copy other people

courseware 

-performance on behalf of the lead

-lack of special skills: some teachers waste time in operation the computer, unskilled operation on 

computer

-lack of interaction between teachers and students: because the teacher in the multimedia classroom

are busy with operation the computer

strategies for Using Multimedia

-combining modern teaching methods with traditional teaching methods : teacher should combine 

the strong point with modern teaching methods also improve teaching and learning environment 

during teachers and students

-viewing multimedia as the assistance to teaching

-building the ideal relationship during teachers and students: students should actively formulate their

own goals for their learning 

-the teacher should be train with use of modern equipments

❤The principle of multimedia-assisted teaching❤

1.courseware design cannot appear any errors

2.Although multimedia teaching has many advantages but it is does not substitute for the role of 

people

3.combine modern teaching and the traditional teaching 

                 Finally, multimedia is an important aspect in modern education. In order to the 

necessity of multimedia,the multimedia teaching and strategies for using multimedia. We must admit

that multimedia do make a revolutionary impact on language teaching. It is a permanent task for 

a teacher to do more and deeper study in the application of multimedia.

References 

Henich, R. (2002). Instructional media and technologies for learning. Beijing: Higher 

Education Press.

Tolstoy,L.,&CAO, Y. (2008).Childhood, boyhood, and youth. Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and 

Art Publishing House.

Vanghan, T. (2004). Multimedia: Making it work (8th ed.). Beijing: QingHua University Publishing

House

WANG,A.S. (1992). Cognitive psychology. Beijing:Pecking University Press.

Wright,A. (2003). Picture for language learning. Tianjin: Nan Kai University Publishing House.

ZHONG,Q.Q. (2003). Modern curriculum theory. Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House.

Week 2 Weblogs enhancing EFL students's English language learning

Abstract

              This study investigate the potential value of weblog use on  English language learning, students's perceptions of and attitudes towards using Weblogs. Weblog give an opportunity and freedom for self-expression in English, writing skill,critical thinking skill. Weblog can provide learning motivation and opportunities for authorship and readership.

Introduction

            There are Three Types of Weblogs are The Tutor Blog,The Learners Blog and .The Class Blog. Weblog have values in English language education for several reasons. Weblogs provide opportunities for real communication. Blog make reading comprehension more, improve students's writing skill, and abilities, provide an exciting and motivating learning environment in reading and writing for learners.

The study

The participants :There are 25 undergraduate female students in English major in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. Their ages from 22-24 years.

Method :   The students enroll in the Reading and Writing for Academic Purposes II course. This course develop reading skill in several of written texts including academic resources and develop thinking skill and writing skill. The students met in class twice a week.

Finding

-weblogs as a medium of self-expression online and a tool of enhance English language development. 

-weblogs offered opportunities for writing and reading practice and communicating with other people. 

-weblogs enhance writing, reading skill and vocabulary. 

Discussion and Conclusion

             In conclusion, Weblogs can provide motivate learning environment. Create social interactions between student and instructor. The focus of blog writing was on encourage student self-expression in English.

Week1

Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

✿ What is a Weblog?
               A weblog or blog is online journal that an individual continuously update with words,ideas.Furthermore, a weblog is interactive. It can respond to any given entry with a comment.

✿ Three Types of Weblogs for Use in ESL Classrooms

1.The Tutor Blog = run by the tutor for the learners

            Blog make the learners know new vocabulary, can be linked to definitions on other site found with a search engine such as google,youtube. In addition, any reader can make a comment that can be read and further commented on blog.Finally, tutor can gives detail of course syllabus , homework assignments to discuss on the blog.

2. The Learners Blog

            Blog can be use as journals for writing practice,develop a sense of ownership and get experience with the practical.

3.The Class Blog = teacher + student

         Teacher and student can make conversation in class and free for student to post messages, image and link. Moreover, the students develop research and writing skill.Can also used as a virtual space for an international classroom language exchange. And another important issue is some weblog software is free.