Language Learning & Technology

for Young Learners

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Graham Stanley, 20th May 2017

1.1 Getting to know you
A – You are a journalist.
Use the voice recorder on your mobile
phone and interview B

B – You are a teacher being asked

about the use of technology in the
classroom

Change partners & change roles

Listen back to the interviews. Write

A profile of the teacher and use direct quotes
 Why technology?

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 Why technology?
Technology permeates
every aspect of our lives

Technology can inspire creativity and

bring new opportunities to students,
connecting them to new ideas and
people they otherwise might not
have met

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 Some benefits
of learning technology
Accessing information
Exposure to language
Entertainment
Creating text
Publishing learner work
Communicating with other learners
Creating community
Managing and organising learning
 Pedagogy vs technology
Don’t be seduced by the ‘wow factor’
Don’t let pedagogy be pushed to the sidelines
Technology should serve the language aims

A principled approach:

Why use it? Will learning be enhanced?

Who is it for? Appropriate to learners age?
What is it best used for?
Where should it be used? In class? At home?
When should it be used?
How to use it?
Language Learning
with Webtools

1. Integrating technology
2. Building community
3. Vocabulary
4. Grammar
5. Listening
6. Reading
7. Writing
8. Speaking
9. Pronunciation
10. Project work
11. Assessment and evaluation
3.7 Alien vocabulary
•Work in pairs and use a cameraphone
•You are visiting aliens on an
ethnographic mission to Earth
•Your mission is to film and document an
interesting object made by human beings
•The video will be sent back to your planet in order
to build a database of the Earth
•You have been living in the body of a human for
some time, but the beings on your planet look
different and have very different bodies and
culture. So, you need to describe everything very
well so the beings at home understand.
4.1 Audio gap-fills
•In groups, choose a grammar item(s)
•Write some example sentences
•Record the sentences using a phone but say
‘blank’ instead of the actual grammar item
•When recording, take turns when saying the
sentences
•Person with the phone changes tables and plays
the recordings
•Others guess the missing grammar item(s)
•Learners could transcribe the sentences
5.8 Online classroom guest
•You are going to interview a friend from another
country and find out as much as possible about the
person asking Yes/No questions
•Brainstorm questions in groups
•Now ask the questions to the guest invited to join
the class via Skype/Zoom/etc.
•Write a profile of the guest using the information
you found
•Write a thank you email/card to the guest, which
the teacher will send
5.9 Recorded stories
•Work in groups. What type of story
are you going to tell?
Romance Science-Fiction Comedy
Fairy Tale Historical Mystery
•Decide on…
Main character(s) (name? age? where from? etc)
•Use voice recorder – Each person takes a turn to
tell the story. Record your bit then pass on the
phone.
•Listen back to the story when finished
•Write up the story and add details to it / change it
to make it better
9.9 Voice recognition
•Do you use voice recognition software?
•What is it used for?
•Would you use it in class?
•If you would, what for?

Activity: Alexa
9.14 Re-recording speeches

•Listen to part of a speech (20-30s)

•Write down exactly what you hear
•Listen again to the intonation and pauses and
mark them on your text
•Concentrate on rising and falling intonation and
mark with arrows
•Now try saying it using the same intonation and
pauses
•Make a recording of yourself and compare with
the original
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Augmented Reality / QR Codes

•If you have a smartphone, look for the app
Aurasma and download it
wifi ceibal password = C3ib4L.2007
•Find and follow bcuruguay

AND/OR

•Download a QR Reader to your phone

POST-BREAK

Augmented Reality

•If you have a smartphone, look for the app

Aurasma and download it
wifi ceibal password = C3ib4L.2007
•Find and follow bcuruguay

•Point Aurasma at Shakespeare photos

•Answer the questions on the map
POST-BREAK

QR Code search

Look for the QR codes in the room and follow the

instructions
Developing a story

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters
 Thank you

graham.stanley@gmail.com
http://languagelearningtechnology.com