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Protected: 1001 ELT CASE STUDIES * CASE 2 – My students just won’t use all these linking words or new vocab when answering discussion questions … What shall I do? – Use them yourself. Respond to the questions first. Be a good model answer provider.

By Stacey

In Learning Language Teaching, Observations, Task & Activity Design

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What is Study-English-Online.Net?

By Stacey

In Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, Groupwork, Instructional Design, Interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, NOTES, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Unsorted Notes, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT

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Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy

By Stacey

In Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, Groupwork, Instructional Design, Interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Unsorted Notes, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT

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Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy

1. Cognitive Behaviourism
2. Constructivism
3. Connectivism

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Do we ever stop learning vocabulary?

By Stacey

In Observations

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Almost every hobby that lets you evolve from a newbie to an expert implies learning hundreds of collocations within the first couple of months of intensive practice, which amounts to thousands if you continue for over a decade. Every time I meet someone who is interested in something I have not been exposed to much before, I end up frustrated because I do not get it what they are talking about...

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Errors vs Mistakes

By Stacey

In Commonly Made Mistakes, Learning Language Teaching, Observations, Testing and Assessment

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a mistake vs an error According to Corder (1967) cited by Ellis (2008), a ‘mistake’ is a deviation in learner language that occurs when learners fail to perform their competence. It is a lapse that reflects processing problems. An error, on the other hand, is a deviation in learner language which results from lack of knowledge of the correct rule (pp. 971, 961). global errors vs local...

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Social Presence

By Stacey

In E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Observations

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Social presence is the degree to which an individual feels real or is seen as real while studying in an online context. The higher the degree of the learner’s social presence in a VLE, the lower the probability of the learner not finishing his/her studies.

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Online Language Lessons – Idea Bank

By Stacey

In Collaborative Learning, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Observations, Teacher Skills, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL

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It looks like more and more language teaching is being done on the web. Let me summarize what online language teachers have on offer, what they do or could do in theory.  I will list several examples from Curtis J. Bonk & Ke Zhang’s (2008) Empowering Online Learning, pp.  62-63. Types of resources & activities for online language learners online flashcards electronic dictionaries...

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Is Studying 1-to-1 Pairwork?

By Stacey

In Collaborative Learning, E-Learning Design & Management, Groupwork, Learning Language Teaching, Observations

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Does studying 1-to-1 qualify as pairwork? And is it necessarily teacher-centered and bad? Anyone?

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Sources of Frustration for E-Learners

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In Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Instructional Design, Observations, Statistics

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According to research, e-learners are likely to be frustrated by

technical difficulties
communication breakdowns

Source: Hara., N (2000). Student Distress In a Web-Based Distance Education Course.

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E-Courseware Design: Issues

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In Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Observations, Teacher Skills

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Let me list some of the topical issues that keep emerging and need to be addressed asap. usability – what I mean here is all the extra clicks that either my students or I make, which takes time. Distributing courseware in space often results in learners’ having to spend more time online than they would otherwise have, and that should be avoided. feedback – it is not enough to...

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