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.