How do you organize your classes in terms of teaching skills? Some teachers choose to organize integrated skills teaching classes where they focus on all aspects of language skills: reading, listening followed by speaking and writing during the course of one class. Duration of classes vary obviously the shortest one being around one hour- 60minutes. One can effectively integrate four skills in one class while some teachers choose to focus only on one language skill per class; 1st lesson on improving reading skills, 2nd listerning, 3rd speaking and 4th lesson on writing and the cycle will go until the end of term. The order of skills not necessarily the same with each teacher.
Most coursebooks develop units and materials and tasks within each unit integrate all four language skills. Most web-based resources, on the other hand, specialize in one area of language skills. Today we will have a look at some of these web-resources and web-tools we can use to design different materials for using in teaching different skills.
1. ICT in writing: writing has become interactive with the facility of publishing on the web. Students can be motivated to write knowing that they can easily share their thoughts with friends and knowing that others might comment on their writing.
Blogger - ask students to create their own blog where they can share their experiences and thoughts
peanut butter wiki- create a wiki for collaborative learning. it is easy, free and learning shared with the whole class
writeboard- write, share, revise and compare.
2. ICT in speaking: again different features of different softwares bring an extra level of interaction and communication when teaching speaking. Students can really benefit from podcasting and videos used in class.
audacity students can podcast to build up confidence in their pronunciation skills and improve general speaking
Youtube approporiately selected videos can be used in class for specific interaction skills. Instructions on how to cut parts of video clips from youtube videos can be found at http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
powerpoint- can help to design speaking tasks/games such as Millionare, Maze, Twenty Questions and Jeopardy
3. ICT in listening
In addition to podcasting and videos, these web-resources can be used for listening skills
4. ICT in reading
Web resources
Using different web quests
In addition, Internet is full of authentic text materials for extensive reading, short stories, classic novels, newspaper articles
5. ICT in teaching Grammar/Vocabulary
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