1. CHANGING OUR WAYS IN EDUCATION
TESOL CONFERENCE 2006
LISTENING
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SPEAKING READING
On the
Internet
WRITING
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2. INTERNET
Internet Terms
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Computers joined together so that they can communicate rk
A site
A place on the Internet, also called a webpage
A brows
Computer software used to look at the web er
Cookies
Small packet of information stored on users' computers by websites
To uplo
To send data from a local system to some remote systemad
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3. INTERNET Ideas about the Internet …
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4. INTERNET
But what kind of material?
Should we evaluate the websites?
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5. INTERNET
But how?
• Is the site's TITLE mentioned on other websites?
• Is the site's URL linked on other websites?
• Is the site's AUTHOR mentioned on other websites?
• What is the SPONSORING website?
Tips for evaluating websites – Ohio University
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6. INTERNET Food for thought …
Internet resources in the classroom
or Internet-based activities?
Internet Resources in the Classroom
 The cross-curricular aspects that might enrich the
learning process.
 The final objectives of each session.
 The skills you are focusing on.
 ICT as an agent of change
Internet-based the way we acquire new knowledge.
in
Activities
 Skills and digital competences that the teachers and
students have.
 The technological resources available for implementing
internet-based activities.
 The teacher assumes a new role as Internet guide to
promote communication and task-based learning.
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7. INTERNET Food for thought … 2
Why use the Internet?
 It's a source of real, authentic material that is updated on
a regular basis.
 It provides different types of resources to arise students'
motivation.
 Learning computer skills is essential to students' future
success.
 Scope & topicality: an endless virtual library covering all
kinds of topics.
 The electronic discourse tends to be more lexically and
syntactically complex than oral discourse (Warschauer,
1996a) and features a broad range of linguistic functions
beneficial for language learning (Kern, 1995)
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8. INTERNET Food for thought … 3
Some negative
 aspects
Some resources are full of idiomatic expressions not
suitable for students.
 Grammatical errors and non-standard use of English.
 The information can be inaccurate or fake.
 Some websites are shut down without a previous
warning.
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9. READING Food for thought …
 Reading is…
… a creative activity. Some might even call it an art.
Marieke Guy, Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet
… a process of constructing meaning from written text.
Anderson, R. C., Hiebert, Scott, and Wilkinson
The house was exactly what we needed.
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10. READING
Comparison of Reading Strategies
STRATEGIES BOOK INTERNET
Activate Prior Knowledge Reader recalls experiences and Similar strategies used
information relating to the topic
Monitor Comprehension Reader ajust reading rate Skimming and scanning
depending on the purpose of becomes crucial for reading
reading sheer volume of text
Determine important ideas Reader analyzes text to Similar strategies used
determine which parts are
important for understanding the
text
Synthesize Reader sifts important form Similar strategies used
unimportant details to determine
the main ideas
Draw inferences Reader uses background Similar strategies used
knowledge and text to fill in the
gaps
Ask questions Questions give purpose to Guiding questions must be in
reading by motivating the reader forefront of reader’s mind or
to continue getting lost is likely
Navigate Reader uses print text to search Reader figures out features of
for information the Internet to search for
information

11. READING Online Resources
FOR THE CLASSROOM
• E-magazines
(*) How stuff works - Biography -
Ask Earl
• E-newspapers
BBC - Chile Post
• Online encyclopedias & dictionaries
Encarta - Wikipedia - *
Factmonster
• Articles
*Penguins Dossiers
ONLINE ACTIVITIES
• Fun Texts
• Madlibs Quotes – Jokes – (*) Fables Crazy
Libs - *Wacky Web tales - Fun Brain
• Articles
CNN Articles - BBC Articles
• ESL/ELT websites *
Online Reading Lab - Free English Lessons - CDLP

12. WRITING Food for thought …
 Writing is…
… creating original fictitious or reality-related worlds.
… to put down on paper what you see and what you feel in the best and
simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
Aim & BRAIN
STORMING
Organization Draft Editing
Reader
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13. WRITING Food for thought …
Cubing
Mind WRITING Graphic
mapping STRATEGIES Organizers
Word
Maps
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14. WRITING Online Resources
FOR THE CLASSROOM
• Worksheets
*Busy Teacher Cafe
ONLINE RESOURCES
• Blogs Blogs
free-ESL - Blogger.com
• Writing Articles
*Wikipedia
• Penpals
The Penpal Network
• Cartoons
Condorito - *Collab-O-Write
And don’t forget emails!!
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15. SPEAKING Food for thought …
A contemporary well-known linguist, David Crystal , has coined the term
"Netspeak" to refer to a new type of computer mediated language, which is in
fact a blend of written and spoken language and it is the language computer
users the world over communicate through. Symbols and emoticons that take
over real facial expressions, prosodic features, body language .... that is, onsite
face-to-face communication. D.Crystal says that "what makes Netspeak so
interesting , as a form of communication, is the way it relies on characteristics
belonging to both sides of the speech/writing divide"
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16. SPEAKING Online Resources
FOR THE CLASSROOM
• Topics
*Conversation Topics
• Conversation Practice
Dialogs
ONLINE RESOURCES
• ESL/ELT Websites
EslGo.com - OneStopEnglish - *TalkEnglish.com
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17. LISTENING Food for thought …
 Listening is…
… the best way to open up or strengthen communication.
… one of the best ways to improve pronunciation.
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18. LISTENING Online Resources
ONLINE RESOURCES
• (*) Esl-Lab - LearningEnglish.org - *MansiondeIngles
ELLLO English - NPR News - Fonetiks.org - *
SpokenEnglish.org
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19. And two or more skills at the same time?
Is it possible?
WEBQUESTS FORUMS CHATS
VIDEOCONFERENCING
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20. INTERNET IS A HUGE SOURCE OF MATERIAL
• CARTOONS &
MOVIE
AUDIO CLIPS
PICTURES
Sonido (OLE2)
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21. TRIVIA
MYTHS & LEGENDS, TRUE or FALSE?
 When we use Internet for a class we don’t need to prepare anything.
 An Internet class needs to be a well-prepared and
structured as any other class. You must go through the material in
advance and make sure that the language, content and presentation
are what you want for your class.
Gavin Dudeney, The Internet and the Language Classroom
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22. TRIVIA
MYTHS & LEGENDS, TRUE or FALSE?
 Internet will reach a point and then it will lose some ground.
 What is the future of the Internet in language teaching?
“That's difficult to say. I think it will be used more and more as
an adjunct to class-based teaching . As it becomes more
sophisticated it will gain immensely in popularity, being used in ever
great numbers by students working on their own, by people who
can't make it to real classrooms (but can still meet up 'virtually'), and
by teachers looking for readily available extra material.”
An
interview with Jeremy Harmer – English Language Teaching Forum

23. TRIVIA
MYTHS & LEGENDS, TRUE or FALSE?
 Google receives about 50 million search queries each day. More
than half of which come from outside the United States. During the
heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each
second.
 Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More
than half of which come from outside the United States. During the
heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each
second.

24. TRIVIA
MYTHS & LEGENDS, TRUE or FALSE?
 CHAT means “Channel for Anonymous Talking.”
 CHAT means “Conversational hypertext Access
Technology.”

25. TRIVIA
MYTHS & LEGENDS, TRUE or FALSE?
 Chinese and Spanish are the most popular languages on the
Internet.
 English and Chinese are the most popular languages on the
Internet.

26. TRIVIA
MYTHS & LEGENDS, TRUE or FALSE?
 Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.
 The words "electronic mail" might sound new but was introduced 30
years ago.
Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in
1976 .