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Debate platform powered by reason - A tour of Kialo | Kialo - 4 views

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    Interesting way to teach students focused online debate skills. Check it out!
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12.pdf - 2 views

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  • extra workload
  • enhances reading comprehension, improves students’ writing skills and abilities [6].  develops writing and learning strategies [5].  has a positive impact on the content and increases the amount of writing of learners [7].  makes students pay close attention to the formal aspects of writing, both in terms of word choice, structure, and word spelling, attending to sentence and paragraph structure as well as adapting academic style, register and appropriate word [8].  Diminishes barriers to learning English by providing them the opportunity to write freely without being judged for their grammatical mistakes [9].  develops ideas and provide feedback for the authors [10].  enhances student analytical and critical thinking skills [11]  increases student motivation in reading and writing, promotes learner independence and autonomy, and enhances students’ analytical and critical thinking skills [12].
  • students with low English proficiency may experience difficulty in putting their ideas in order
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  • The teacher as facilitator is important for maintaining student interest since blogs work best when learners get into the habit of using them.
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Stevenson_Liu.pdf - 1 views

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  • Michael Gorman, former president of the American Library Association, decries the movement towards a user-controlled Internet as “a world in which everyone is an expert in a world devoid of expertise”
  • technical usability
  • pedagogical usability
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  • Technical usability is defined as the general usability of a tool for a user— how easily users can complete a task with the least number of obstacles.
  • Pedagogical usability applies specifically to how learnable and usable the website is for learners.
  • Providing users with an immediate solution to an obstacle may not be the preferred outcome when users must learn during the process
  • How do current users of a foreign language learning website that employs Web 2.0 technologies use the site for learning and social purposes?
  • What technical and pedagogical issues arise when potential users participate in a usability test of three foreign language learning websites that employ Web 2.0 technologies?
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Using YouTube in the ESL Classroom - 2 views

  • For homework, assign your ESL students to groups of four or five and ask each group to find a short video to present to the class.
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