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Classroom Practice: Creating interactive CALL activities.
ReplyDeleteThe most relevant point of this article is the importance of social interaction of the language learning environment. It is very important that teachers can design task so that students can use their current proficiency level to function in authentic material. In that way learners grow into activity that has meaning for them.
The most relevant part of this article is that the quality of interaction is important and often takes careful planning on the part of the teacher. They need a guideline in order to help them to ensure learners engage in high-quality social interaction.
Teachers have considered that technology it is a good tool for teaching and learning process. It facilitates the communication and sharing. It also, gives new opportunities to students to be more productive and to have educational excellence.
Rosa C. de Adames
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By Joy Egbert
Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities
After reading this chapter, I confirmed the fact that there are a lot of different ways to create interactive activities using Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
What I belief is needed, is to face the challenge and take the opportunity to learn more about this subject, and actually put “hands on” activity to develop the skills necessary to handle such situations and programs.
What goes through my mind as I read this chapter is that most of the professional education community in our country is not conscious about the wide range of activities/programs that there are just to be carried out by them.
Interactions within students of the same classes or the same or different schools, interactions among local or international community members provide the learners with an authentic audience for more productive process of language acquisition and enhance the develop of the target language of the learner.
Reading Reaction 2: Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
Therefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
Reading Reaction 2: Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
Therefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
Reading Reaction 2: Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
Therefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
Therefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
Therefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
In my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
Something I learned and I would like to share with you guys are some of my own experiences using interactive activities online, and I consider that this article is very interesting because it talks about the importance of the use of interaction when we are learning a second or foreign language, the use of computers to interact with our students and also to interact among them, in the ESL or EFL classroom is a great deal now days, because it helps them a lot to develop the necessaries skills to improve the English language and it also makes the teacher’s job easier. That interaction between the teacher and the students and even people around the world, though computer activities is excellent, because I’ve been using it with my students from the CELEVE program in the UTP University and I can check their progress, assessments, test evaluation final evaluations, activities done online, everything they do through a software that the UTP university has, we can also join chat rooms with other students, teachers around the world that are using the same software online, and talk about their experiences, knowledge, activities in the software for the different levels, about their cultures, places countries, conversation forums that they create for students and teachers who wants to join and write comments of a specific topic. All these things are possible if we have internet, because we can interact and work from the classroom and also from our homes. Many things could be done and I have to be honest that for me it’s unbelievable how many things we can do with the World Wide Web and these types of software’s, I hope one day every school in our country could have access to the technology and take advance of these tools that the technology is offering us to learn.
ReplyDeleteSomething I learned and I would like to share with you guys are some of my own experiences using interactive activities online, and I consider that this article is very interesting because it talks about the importance of the use of interaction when we are learning a second or foreign language, the use of computers to interact with our students and also to interact among them, in the ESL or EFL classroom is a great deal now days, because it helps them a lot to develop the necessaries skills to improve the English language and it also makes the teacher’s job easier. That interaction between the teacher and the students and even people around the world, though computer activities is excellent, because I’ve been using it with my students from the CELEVE program in the UTP University and I can check their progress, assessments, test evaluation final evaluations, activities done online, everything they do through a software that the UTP university has, we can also join chat rooms with other students, teachers around the world that are using the same software online, and talk about their experiences, knowledge, activities in the software for the different levels, about their cultures, places countries, conversation forums that they create for students and teachers who wants to join and write comments of a specific topic. All these things are possible if we have internet, because we can interact and work from the classroom and also from our homes. Many things could be done and I have to be honest that for me it’s unbelievable how many things we can do with the World Wide Web and these types of software’s, I hope one day every school in our country could have access to the technology and take advance of these tools that the technology is offering us to learn.
ReplyDeleteSomething I learned and I would like to share with you guys are some of my own experiences using interactive activities online, and I consider that this article is very interesting because it talks about the importance of the use of interaction when we are learning a second or foreign language, the use of computers to interact with our students and also to interact among them, in the ESL or EFL classroom is a great deal now days, because it helps them a lot to develop the necessaries skills to improve the English language and it also makes the teacher’s job easier. That interaction between the teacher and the students and even people around the world, though computer activities is excellent, because I’ve been using it with my students from the CELEVE program in the UTP University and I can check their progress, assessments, test evaluation final evaluations, activities done online, everything they do through a software that the UTP university has, we can also join chat rooms with other students, teachers around the world that are using the same software online, and talk about their experiences, knowledge, activities in the software for the different levels, about their cultures, places countries, conversation forums that they create for students and teachers who wants to join and write comments of a specific topic. All these things are possible if we have internet, because we can interact and work from the classroom and also from our homes. Many things could be done and I have to be honest that for me it’s unbelievable how many things we can do with the World Wide Web and these types of software’s, I hope one day every school in our country could have access to the technology and take advance of these tools that the technology is offering us to learn.
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ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction about this article was that as teacher we need to integrate technology in our teaching, because it is an important factor that nowadays our students can interact and develop different skills. A very interesting part that this article that called my attention is “Language learners interact more often with their peer”, in class it is an advantage to create collaborative team in the classroom to find new ways and techniques to get learning process and with it learn together.
I learned from this article that every teacher should know that the activities must be interactive for our students, they should call their attention, it does not matter if they are through technology or worksheets the point is that we need to change our way of teaching.
Concluding this reading I want to suggest that integrate CALL activities will help us and our children to understand and be capable improve their skills and also focused our teaching process for communication that is in my opinion the 21st century goal of English classes for ESL learners.
CREATING INTERACTIVE CALL ACTIVITIES
ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction about this article was that as teacher we need to integrate technology in our teaching, because it is an important factor that nowadays our students can interact and develop different skills. A very interesting part that this article that called my attention is “Language learners interact more often with their peer”, in class it is an advantage to create collaborative team in the classroom to find new ways and techniques to get learning process and with it learn together.
I learned from this article that every teacher should know that the activities must be interactive for our students, they should call their attention, it does not matter if they are through technology or worksheets the point is that we need to change our way of teaching.
Concluding this reading I want to suggest that integrate CALL activities will help us and our children to understand and be capable improve their skills and also focused our teaching process for communication that is in my opinion the 21st century goal of English classes for ESL learners..
CREATING INTERACTIVE CALL ACTIVITIES
ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction about this article was that as teacher we need to integrate technology in our teaching, because it is an important factor that nowadays our students can interact and develop different skills. A very interesting part that this article that called my attention is “Language learners interact more often with their peer”, in class it is an advantage to create collaborative team in the classroom to find new ways and techniques to get learning process and with it learn together.
I learned from this article that every teacher should know that the activities must be interactive for our students, they should call their attention, it does not matter if they are through technology or worksheets the point is that we need to change our way of teaching.
Concluding this reading I want to suggest that integrate CALL activities will help us and our children to understand and be capable improve their skills and also focused our teaching process for communication that is in my opinion the 21st century goal of English classes for ESL learners..
Something I learned and I would like to share with you guys, are some of my own experiences using interactive activities online, and I consider that this article is very interesting because it talks about the importance of the use of interaction when we are learning a second or foreign language, the use of computers to interact with our students and also to interact among them, in the ESL or EFL classroom is a great deal now days, because it helps them a lot to develop the necessaries skills to improve the English language and it also makes the teacher’s job easier. That interaction between the teacher and the students and even people around the world, though computer activities is excellent, because I’ve been using it with my students from the CELEVE program in the UTP University and I can check their progress, assessments, test evaluation final evaluations, activities done online, everything they do through a software that the UTP university has, we can also join chat rooms with other students, teachers around the world that are using the same software online, and talk about their experiences, knowledge, activities in the software for the different levels, about their cultures, places countries, conversation forums that they create for students and teachers who wants to join and write comments of a specific topic. All these things are possible if we have internet, because we can interact and work from the classroom and also from our homes. Many things could be done and I have to be honest that for me it’s unbelievable how many things we can do with the World Wide Web and these types of software’s, I hope one day every school in our country could have access to the technology and take advance of these tools that the technology is offering us to learn.
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