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- By María Jordano (UCLM) & Jason Jollie (SMS)
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- Intro
- The tool
- Language Traders
- The students
- Instructions
- Results
- Conclusions
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- Language traders is a BBS based on PHP-Nuke “to help speakers of
different languages find each other so that they can use technologies
available on the Internet for peer-to-peer language practice”.
- Its development was funded by a grant from Southwest Missouri State
University.
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- Very easy to use for “newbies”.
- First touch with technology and real English.
- It can be used up from very beginners
- Easy to control (who posts and who not)
- Easy overall view for teacher/student
- It feels the gap of “not travelling exp.”
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- It is one of the most complete open-source applications to set up a
web-based forum.
- Main features:
- Chat,
- list of members**
- Links
- Surveys
- Who’s on line **…
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- It is a space especially created for practising languages.
- As a teacher, you could ask the administrator to have power to moderate.
- It is very easy to use either with your class or interacting with other
students.
- You don’t need to install anything.
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- Getting registered in Language Traders and taking part in one of the
forums created by the teacher following the instructions
- Proposing new topics
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- Common features:
- No previous Internet knowledge
- Only four of them had stayed in a English speaking country
- Just some of them had had some contact with Native speakers of English
- No confidence at “producing skills”
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- Different levels of Spanish proficiency (more confidence to my students)
- Different ages
- Different interests
- Not compulsory subject, different motivation in comparison to UCLM
students)
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- Every single topic dealt in the guided topic was based on the “week
topic”.
- = Blended learning, Learning never finished on Wednesdays
- Part of the knowledge must be learn by the student by going to the forum
and ask questions…
- Students became aware of self-learning
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- 1. Read each topic posted by the SMSU or UCLM instructor (My case: Week
1, 2… )
- 2. Respond to the main topic in the language of the original posting.
- 3. Find a response from a member of the exchange community and respond
to it.
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- OFF-TOPIC…You may post in English or Spanish, but always respond in the
language of the original posting.
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- Never doing compulsory these kind of activities
- Be careful with technophobics!!
- Do everything GRADUALLY
- Don’t correct mistakes from the beginning
- Most of the task ALLWAYS guided, otherwise it could be unsuccessful with
IT beginners…
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- Lengua Inglesa IV Weblog (collaborative, own diary…)** More advanced
level of English, more to say…
- Hawaii chat project (** More confidence, better fluency)
- Even WebPages creation in an autonomous manner! ** translated into more
self-autonomous learning…
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- Altun, A. (2005) “Toward An Effective Integration Of Technology: Message
Boards For Strengthening Communication”, The Turkish Online Journal of
Educational Technology http://www.tojet.net/articles/419.htm
- Farmer, J. (2004) “Technology, Design, Communication, Pedagogy etc.
Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development
of communities of inquiry in online learning environments”. Incorporated
Subversion http://incsub.org/blog/?p=3
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- Maria.jordano@uclm.es
- esp@mariajordano.com
- Yahoo Mess: maria_jordano@yahoo.es
- Thanks for coming! J
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