Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy
Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy 1. Cognitive Behaviourism 2. Constructivism 3. Connectivism
The 14 Categories of Language Use
RIvers & Temperly (A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English, OUP, 1978, p. 47) list 14 purposes or categories of language use establishing and maintaining social relations expressing one’s…
A Multimedia Resource for Language Learning
I have been racking my brains over the past few weeks in vain. I am incapable of thinking of a proper topic myself and that prevents me from starting work…
Pair & Groupwork vs Teacher-Student Interaction
According to Mckay & Tom (Teaching Adult Second Language Learners, CUP, 1999, p. 26), working in groups helps students feel they are part of a community. They come to know…
Online Language Lessons – Idea Bank
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…
The 4 Types of Multilevel Class Activities
Heather McKay & Abigail Tom (1999, CUP, Teaching Adult Second Language Learners, pp. 21-22) suggest teachers differentiate among four types of mixed-ability activity. Unless the text is in quotation marks,…
Interactivity & The 5 Ts that Make it Fail
Ian Forsyth (Teaching & Learning Materials & The Internet, 3rd edition, p. 135) defines interactivity as emulating the traditional classroom He lists the 5 Ts that cause interactivity to fail…
E-Courseware Design: Issues
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…
How Long Should One Online Language Lesson Last?
To begin with, I am not aware of any reliable statistics. I can only draw on my personal experience and summarize a number of related Google search results. It is…