ICT in EFL – a WA course

prof. Włodzimierz Sobkowiak, WA UAM

2014-2015

 

 

 

Syllabus:

 

Topic

Issues, topics, buzzwords and acronyms

1

General intro

orientation test, syllabus, aim, credit, current state of ICT, terminology, acronym soup

2

Digital divide

attitudes, sexism/ageism, ICT classroom

3

Teacher skills

web browsing, web authoring, media editing

4

Traditional CALL

CA(L)L, text manipulation, corpora, ZX Spectrum, multi/hypermedia

5

NLP & MT

NLP, TTS, ASR, MT, STS MT

6

Web1 for EFL

CMC, email, WWW, online dictionaries and courses, e-learning

7

Web2 for EFL

LMS, Moodle, podcast, blog, wiki, social networking

8

Web3 for EFL

MMORPG, VWs, (MUV)(L)E, Second Life

9

Second Life for EFL

LanguageLab, Virtlantis, (P)AV, added value

10

Prospects

Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, ubiquitous computing, m-learning

 


Selected bibliography:

 

Anderson,T. & F.Elloumi (eds). 2004. Theory and practice of online learning. Canada: Athabasca University.

Beatty,K. 2003. Teaching and researching computer assisted learning. London: Pearson Educational.

Butler-Pascoe,M.E. & K.M.Wiburg. 2003. Technology and teaching English language learners. Boston,Mass.: Allyn & Bacon.

Chapelle,C.A. 2003. English language learning and technology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Donaldson,R.P. & M.Haggstrom (eds). 2009. Changing language education through CALL. London: Taylor and Francis Group.

Dudeney,G. 2007 (2nd. ed.). The internet and the language classroom. A practical guide for teachers. Cambridge: CUP.

Dudeney,G. & N.Hockly. 2007. How to teach English with technology. London: Longman.

Hubbard,P. & M.Levy (eds). 2006. Teacher education in CALL. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Warschauer,M. & R.Kern (eds). 2000. Network-based language teaching. Concepts and practice. Cambridge: CUP.

White,C. 2003. Language learning in distance education. Cambridge: CUP.

Wolfe,C.R. 2001. Learning and teaching on the world wide web. London: Academic Press.

Zhang,F. & B.Barber (eds). 2008. Handbook of research on computer-enhanced language acquisition and learning. University of Canberra, Australia.

 

 

Last update: Aug 26th 2014