Designing An ESL CALL/CALLT-Courseware/Website/Weblog

This is my first trial in making a course ware.

It is focus on literature: The Fruitcake Special

This is the prototype. 

TFCS Courseware

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Your Name: Arnaz Basir
Your Email: arnaz_basir@yahoo.com

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CALL LESSON PLAN

TOPIC:  Healthy and balanced diet

LEVEL: Form 1 (Low intermediate)

TIME: 1 Hour 10 Minutes

AIMS: To obtain information from playing games on a Website. Respond to teacher’s questions appropriately by giving relevant and acceptable answers. Complete all the games and task given.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

One computer per pair of students with an Internet connection, a website, work sheets.

Websites:

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/balanced_diet.html

http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/activity.aspx?siteId=5&sectionId=34&contentId=55
http://dictionary.reference.com/ 

PREPARATION:
1. Find several information from the Internet.
2. Using the information on the site, prepare worksheets.

PROCEDURES:

Asks students to find a friend and instruct them to work in pairs. Each pair will work on a single computer.

1. Prompt a question on whether the students  have eaten for the breakfast and what their favorite food is. Then asks the students whether the food that they take is healthy or not?

2. Asks the students whether they know how to use the internet or not.Then explains the steps in opening the internet browser until reaching the target website.

3. Models the students on how to open the target website using LCD projector and log into the target website. Teacher put picture of food pyramids and explain on food pyramids.

 4. Tells students the topic that they are going to learn and teacher read through some part of the website to assist students. Choose some parts of the websites for the teaching and asks the students to listen to the  instruction.

 5. Asks the students to do the activity suggested in the website. 

http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/activity.aspx?siteId=5&sectionId=34&contentId=55

Students need to click and follow the instructions given. They are also free to use dictionary online to check words that they don’t understand. The activity is like a tutorial for the learning part. Facilitates students doing the activity. The winner of overall activities will be awarded.

6. Distribute each pair with worksheet 1 and assigns them another task using the worksheet:Where do nutrients come from? which they have to find the answers in the website

7. Monitor and scaffold students and lastly, discuss the answer with students.

Follow up activity:

Students need to work on the worksheet 2. The work sheet is about snacks attack and students need to categorized the snacks that they like to eat in the worksheet. They can obtain the information on the snacks from internet. The work sheet will be used and the discussion will be conducted in the next class.

 WORKSHEETS:

 

Website(s):

Jcross

This is my JCROSS task. A simple one.

CALL Article Review

 A. The Article

 a. Title: Facebook in the Language Classroom: Promises and Possibilities

b. Journal: International Journal of Instructional and Distance Learning, Vol 6; No 1, January 2009

c. Author: Geraldine Blattner(Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Her research focuses on technology-enhanced foreign language learning and sociolinguistic and pragmatic variation in French language in computer-mediated discourse) and Melissa Fiori (Assistant Professor at Daemen College in Amherst, NY. Her research focuses on technology and language learning with a particular interest in L2 Emergent Grammar)

Link:http://www.itdl.org/journal/jan_09/article02.htm

B. Summary
 

The article is about the potential of using social networking where it focused on Facebook, in helping young generation to learn English language where the article highlighted its promises and possibilities. This article is a library based research where selected research topics are gathered in order to support its finding. In this article it stated that by using social networking such as Facebook can helps the learner of second language (L2) to improve their target language. This article mention three factors; Computer Mediated Communication &Social Network Communication, Pedagogical Practice: Community Building via Facebook and Development of Socio-pragmatic competence via Facebook. Since Facebook is part of student’s daily activity and some students spent a lot of time online, it suggested that Facebook can be use as a tool, in helping students learn second language. Students can build community in Facebook and this help them feel belonging to a community and interact more with each other and also building positive relation with teacher that boast their motivation in learning L2. This article also mention that students can interact with the native speaker where not only they practice their language but also learn how the culture and language are interrelated . A lot of activity can be done online, such as creating group, video interaction and using 'The Course'. It is also flexible in term of time and place as well as low in coast. Facebook has unique features that offer constructive educational experiences while maintaining privacy and safety. The potential of this social website is growing everyday with new applications being upgrade in the Facebook. This article provides starting points for the engagement of further investigations in the abundantly promising field of Facebook pedagogical and linguistic research.  

C. Reaction  

I agree with this article where Facebook can gives promises and possibilities in the language classroom and it is an interesting article. Since this research is on library based research, I believe that this research has highlight main points that very beneficial to those who use social networking. I truly believe in the use of Facebook in L2 learning because it has the capabilities in helping and be as one of effective medium in improving one’s language especially in the ESL classroom in Malaysia. Facebook also create attraction towards kids and teenagers to get involved more with the target language, since it is something familiar and almost common things for people especially the x-generation. Facebook is fun and interactive to be use and  can be a tool to learn language. I use to be skeptical and a little bit resistance to think that Facebook can be use in the classroom however, after reading this article I realize the benefits that one can get just using social networking such as Facebook is undeniable. Facebook can help students in their language learning outside of the classroom, at their own leisure and convenience and especially involved almost no cost at all.  Using Facebook, it helps  students to build confident, feel belonging to a group of community in the cyber space and with variety backgrounds and not limited to Malaysian people only. It also allows the student to interact with the native of the target language from different age since it's a social network.  This helps the students to enhance and vary their socio-pragmatic in the L2 of their target language especially English. They also able to learn more about the native’s speaker culture as well as aware of its relation with the L2. Sometimes indirectly, students use the L2 whenever they use Facebook and this will help them to widen their vocabulary and indirectly build self-confident. Although I do afraid that students tend to use the improper language (also known as sms language or short language) but the existence of teacher that they known as a ‘friend’ in the Facebook will guide them. As Vygotsky in the Sociocultural Theory has stated, learning process involve through participation in cultural, environment, and interactions through community. The true value of Facebook isn’t readily apparent to a lot of people yet especially in the language classroom in Malaysia.  However, I think a lot of people are starting to catch on and see it as a valuable tool in teaching or learning L2 and hope that Facebook can be use as a tool of teaching in ESL classroom.

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D. Other

Blog that suggest on how to use Facebook in language learning classroom:

Julien Hamilton-Hart

Online College Classes 

PlaySay Uses Facebook To Help You Learn A Language 

 

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