How to make true or false test in cai (week13)

You have to click on Quiz >  Question slide > choose True/False

                                         Create first slide and setting when this slide finish you can duplicate.

How to Create CAI Lesson(week12)

1. Open Adobe Captivate

2. select New > Blank Project > select Size 1024× 768 and create project.

3. Add background into your CAI :

select “Properties” > “Properties” > “Project Background” > “Add Project Background” > “Import” > select the picture and open.

4. Add the texts into your CAI,

select “Text” > “Text Caption”

5. create button for going to next slide

 select “Interaction” > “Button” and in tap “style”, you can change the caption of the texts and in tap “Action”, and select “On success:” > Go to the next slide.

6. Add the pictures, sounds, video or animation

 select “Media”.

7. click "publish" when you finish the project.

Three Phases of CALL(week11)

        1. Behavioristic CALL  is the first phase of CALL which was implemented in the 1960s. It was based on the model of the computer as a tutor. In other words, the computer was seen as a medium to deliver instructional materials to learners. PLATO system, which included vocabulary drills, short grammar explanations and drills, and translation exercises, is a good example of this phase.

         2. Communicative CALL  focuses on authentic communication and use of forms rather than the forms themselves

        3.Integrative CALL  which includes two important developments: multimedia and the Internet. They also have control over their learning and can access many background links while they are focusing on the main lesson. In addition, computer-mediated communication and the Internet are used to help create an integrative communicative environment for language learning and are a great medium for global communication and various authentic materials.

Computer Assisted Language Learning and English Language Teaching in Thailand: Overview(week10)

There are 3 teaching methodologies dominant in ELT:

        - Behavioristic CALL

         -Communicative CALL

         -Integrative CALL. 

- Behavioristic CALL  is recognized as the first phase of CALL. Most of CALL programs in this phase entailed repetitive language drills-and-practice activities. 

- Communicative CALL  the focus of CALL in this phase is placed on using the language or functions rather than analysis of language forms. And the functions stimulates students’ discussion and writing through role-playing game.

- Integrative CALL , CALL in this period is regarded as a shift from the use of the computer for drill and tutorial purposed into a medium for extending education beyond the language classroom. 

Educational CALL Programs and ELT in Thailand

-Tutorial programs are responsible for collecting, presenting and guiding information, teaching rules. Students can learn content through questions. When the students answer, they receive immediate feedback.

-Drill and Practice is to review the content background knowledge. The questions will be repeated many times.

-Demonstration is very helpful with selfdirected learning. students will be encouraged to learn by themselves.

-Simulation or so-called problem solving is used, aiming to raise students’ critical thinking, discussion skills and writing abilities

-Games are used to provide a rich learning and teaching environment.

-Testing is a tool for assessment and a method to determine what students know and do not know.

A principles to Design of CAI (week9)

CAI design process

There are 7 steps

 - Preparation

 - Design Instruction

 - Flowchart  Lesson

 - Create storyboard 

 - Program Lesson

 - Produce Supporting Materials

 - Evaluate and Revise

Screen design of lesson

 - Resolution of the monitor

 - Using color

 - The layout of the screen

The component of CAI

 - Messages

 - Sound 

 - Picture

 - Animation

 - Link                                                                     

CAI (week8)

CAI or Computer-Assisted Instruction is computer instructional technique by using ability of computer to present contents such as texts, pictures, graphics, charts, graphs, animation and sound, to convey the content.

 Types of CAI

1. Tutorial Instruction 

2. Drills and Practice 

3. Simulation 

4. Instructional Games 

5. Discovery 

6. Problem-solving 

7. Tests 

 The Advantages of CAI

- It will save time and reduce the course

- We can add pictures, sound, definition to increase the interest.

- The students can learn everywhere.

 The Disadvantages of CAI

- There are limit number and scope in designing Computer-Assisted Instruction.

- It takes time to design the lesson.

Corpus for Classrooms: Ideas for Material Design (week7)

Elementary students : Collocations: make/do

- Verb pairing game

   The teacher highlights some collocations to the students then students divided into two groups. Group 1 will have corpus-derived sentences without the verb make anddo. Group 2 will have the verb make or do.

Students stand in lines facing each other the ones carrying verbs will take turns trying to pair their verbs with the sentences to other group has.

-Computer cloze activity

Computer cloze activities might be used to help the students practice the uses of both verbs and to learn their collocations.

Intermediate students: Modal verbs

-Contextual Analysis

-Cloze activities

-Spot the error activity

-Multiple-choices

Upper intermediate students: Phrasal verbs

-Cloze activity

Advanced students: Idiomatic Expression

-Concordance Analysis

-Pragmatics: Situation analysis

Modal Auxiliary in British English : A corpus-Based study of modality through british national corpus (week6)

Objectives

         BNCweb will be specifically applied through chosen modal verbs in order to:
 1. shed some light on modal verbs of which meanings are difficult to make distinction on theoretical background.

 2. affirm that modalities can be interchangeable due to different contexts, such as gender, type of data, perceived level of difficulty and etc.

Method         

Three modal verbs ("should", "have to" and "must") will be scrutinized by available functions ("distribution", "collocation" and "concordance") via BNCweb in order to offer empirical information, such as grammatical usage and discursive practice, of modalities in British context. Details of methodology in each function will be subsequently explained in results and discussion section. 

Using corpus analysis software to analyze specialized texts (week5)

In this week, I learnt about using corpus analysis software to analyze specialized texts. After that, I can summarize the knowledge as follows :

1.What is a corpus?

A corpus can be generally defined as a collection of naturally-occurring texts in a computer-readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software.

2. Sources of language corpora

You can subscribe to a large corpus provider such as the British National Corpus (BNC)

-        http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

or use web concordancing

-        http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk

or compile own corpora and analyze data using corpus analysis software

-        Antconc’(http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

3. Designing a specialized corpus 

You have to design a specialized corpus as follows:

- Corpus size

- Text extracts vs. full texts

- Number of texts

- Medium

- Subject and text type

4. Sources of specialized texts

-printed materials

-word document texts

-CD-ROMs

-Texts on the web

-Online databases  

Djgital Writing : Enhancing Ways of Teaching and Learning Writing (WEEK4)

1.What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes?

-The writers is often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas.

-The learners always write slowly or illegibly.

2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?

-The digital writing is becoming a standard way of life for young learners within Generation M.

3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions?

-Blogs 

        -A blog is a discussion, informational article or personal journal, published on the World Wide Web, which is often frequently updated.

-Instant Messaging (IM) – For examples MSN, Line, Twitter, Skype, Facebook,etc.

     -Instant Messaging (IM) is used from the users on the same system for communication.

-Social Network Site (SNS) 

           -A social network site (SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people share interest, create a public or semi-public profile, and interact with other users.

4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?          

-  First, many digital writing applications provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms.
-  Second, learners actually type out what they want to communicate to the group or readers.  - Third, promotes learners’ equity in term of interaction. The users can see everyone’s messages and respond their messages in real-time
5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?
6. Which activity do you like most? Why?

-For teaching you should have the knowledge about digital writing and always practice.

-Activity 6: Role play because I am interested in  supposition about superstars and I like to interview the famous superstar as well.

The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching (Week3)

(1)What is multimedia?

My answer : The multimedia is the use of computer to present text , graphics, video, animation, and sound in an composite way.

(2)Why we choose multimedia to assist English teaching?

My answer : Because of the multimedia has some advantages for the students.

-Arousing the students’ interest.

Using the multimedia makes the students interested in the study because “ interest is the best teacher” when the students learn whatever they are interested. It will be easy to understand the lesson in the class.

-Improving students’ innovation ability.

In  teaching, the teachers should pay attention to tap the imagination of students because of the imagination is more important than knowledge. Finally, the students can achieve their desire from using multimedia.

-Cultivating students’ communication skills.

The students can create real life scenes in the classroom that it gives the students the opportunity to use English to communicate.

On the other hand, it has some disadvantages such as,

-Over-use of multimedia.

-Confusion

Sometimes, the students ignore the role of the teachers. They just focus their computer so, this is the problem of using multimedia.

(3) How to make good use of multimedia?

My answer : -Combining modern teaching medthods with traditional teaching medthods.

-Viewing multimedia as the assistance to teaching.

-Building the ideal relationship between teachers and students.

My Second Week

          Hello everyone! Today, I will tell you about my second week that I studied Computer Application for English Language Teaching subject. In this class, I learned about “Weblogs enhancing EFL students’ English language learning” , and creation a blog.

          First, I learned “Weblogs enhancing EFL students’ English language learning”. A weblog is a free user-friendly technology that is easily created. It includes texts , colors , images, audio and video files, and hyperlinks of websites.

For me, I think that a weblog makes the students around the world smarter because a weblog can help them to develop their skills in English language such as writing, reading, etc. Weblog is one of online communication that the students can post everything they want on it and they can discuss to each others so, they can read and write in English proficiently. Moreover, when they want to share something on their blogs . They have to know the correct form of the grammar in English. It is necessary to write their blogs correctly.

          Second, I learned basic knowledge about a blog last week. And then I  had to create the clock and the counter on my blog that my teacher always taught me how to add the clock and the counter on it. I really like it because this activity made me happy and fun in class.

          In conclusion, weblogs can provide an exciting and motivating learning environment where students can develop analytical and critical thinking skills, etc. So, weblogs is valuable for the study around the world as I said before.

My First Week

      Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog! Today, I will tell you about my first week that I studied Computer Application for English Language Teaching subject. In this class, I learned about “What is a weblog?” , Creation a blog, and Technology in Language Teaching.

          First, I learned “ What is a weblog”. A weblog or blog is an online journal that an individual can continuously update with his or her own words, ideas, and thoughts through software. So, a weblog is very important and necessary for studying in this class because it is easy to read and understand. Moreover, a weblog looks like a place where people around the world can share the knowledge to each others.

          Second, I learned how to create a blog. I really like this part because it is easy to create a blog and my teacher always taught me such as, how to add my name on my blog, how to add my photo on my blog as well.

          Third, I learned “Technology in Language Teaching about “The Teacher Council of Thailand” that the teachers must have basic knowledge of computer and should also be able to apply Internet in the teaching. And then, I learned abbreviations such as, CMC = Computer- Mediated Communication,

MUD = Multi User Dimension, and ICT = Information and Communication Technology ,etc.  

          Finally, I could create my blog and wrote my profile on my blog properly. And I realized that using computer is necessary for teachers and students. So, I have to do my best in this class.