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Research has shown that CMC: can help increase students' motivation to learn the foreign language, lower their anxiety, increase their fluency in the target language, lead to improved intercultural competence and democratize classroom communication.

Keep in mind that students who study languages with different orthographies may encounter specific difficulties during CMC sessions. Be prepared with creative solutions, such as suggesting computers and keyboards that accommodate the characters your students need.

Resources The following publications, Web sites, and listservs offer additional information about creating Web-based language learning activities. This Resource Guide concludes with an annotated bibliography of ERIC documents on this topic.

The wealth of information provided on the Web affords language teachers and learners access to resources like never before

What makes the Web especially exciting as a resource for language teaching and learning is its possibilities for interactivity

Claudio Zavala Jr. and Scott Titmas

The potentials for dropping in html objects such as quizzes that enable interaction can make static data much more dynamic. The ability to drop in multimedia and particularly video can lend more significance and impact to the information in the graphic.

there are so many possibilities with this, especially because it is asynchronous communication.

It’s important to note that this process is different from, for example, simply giving students a video of grammar rules to watch at home, then going over the concepts from that video in class.

Posted by Kara Parker on April 17, 2017 in 3 Activities, Interpretive Reading, Reading, Techy Stuff, What's New

Highlighting is one of my top go-to interpretive reading activities. Today I will review an app for Apple devices and Chrome. Let’s see how highlighting can go digital! I blogged about this “Highlight Away” activity before… It was Idea #71 in 2012! If you haven’t read it, take a minute to see where this idea started. Why I love highlighting… It gives a focus while reading It takes away the frustration of “not knowing every word” (adjust the task, not the text) It preps them to summarize It preps them to discuss the reading No comprehension questions needed (low teacher prep) It lets them figure out the meaning and learn new words in context It shows comprehension without translating Here are a few examples of highlighting activities we’ve done in lessons:

s in the Street Art unit. They were reading opinions about graffiti before they gave their opinion. It was awesome seeing how this activity gave them so many solid reasons that support their opinions.

estas plataformas tecnológicas son de gran ayuda y les permiten estudiar varios idiomas al mismo tiempo con el uso de estas herramientas, las cuales facilitan el aprendizaje, pues lo hacen de una manera más divertida y emocionante, además de ser gratificante, pues con las computadoras y los equipos móviles pueden realizan múltiples actividades de investigación, tanto como preparar los procesos de inscripción, recibir los programas de estudios, enviar y recibir correos electrónicos, realizar depósitos u otros pagos sin tener que salir de sus hogares o de sus aulas.

HelloTalk: es una aplicación que permite el intercambio de idiomas, y es actualmente la más utilizada por estos.

Narrative prompts: Similar to the prior ideas, but pick images with an action occurring, and have the student record a single sentence describing what is happening.