TechnologyEnhanced Materials

DAVID BRETT AND MARTA GONZLEZ-LLORET

Marta Kvaterchuk
2nd English group
pp. 351-367

Change in process of finding and

preparing material
Newspapers, magazines, leaflets,
pens, scissors, glue, and a clean
working surface

The computer desktop, the Internet

and a mouse

Computer-assisted language
learning (CALL)
communi
cation
tools

MOOs

email
chat
rooms

software
and
applicati
ons

the
authoring
and
publication
of web
digital audio
and video
materials

CMC - computer-mediated com

munication

asynchronous
email, bulletin boards

synchronous
chat rooms, audio and video
conferencing

if you start with

teachers who have a
very good approach
to project-based
curriculum, they will
be able to very
easily integrate
computers into that.

But if you start with

computers without a
good curriculum or a
good pedagogy, the
computer itself
won't help very
much.

TEACHERS AS AUTHORS
Commercial enterprises (Yahoo Messenger,
AOL, and MSN)
(Yahoo Messenger, AOL, and MSN)

Collaborative projects
("Viaje al pasado: los aztecas")

Individual-teacher projects
(En busca de Esmeraldas by Gonzalez-Lloret )

REVIEW OF RESOURCES:
courseware
Hot Potatoes
"Hot Pot," as it is known to
aficionados, is certainly one of the
most user-friendly and widely
adopted authoring tools available.
The types of exercises that can be

GISMO
(Guildhall Interactive Software for
Multimedia Online) authoring tool,
which is free of charge for
education institutions, permits the
creation of 12 different types of

created include multiple-choice/

browser-based exercises.

jumbled sentences, crosswords,

Exercises can be organized into

matching/ordering, and gap-fill.

articulated learning modules.

REVIEW OF RESOURCES:
courseware
CLIC

MaxAuthor

This freeware program by Francesc

Busquets allows the development of
multimedia activities for language

A feature of particular interest is

learning. Several different types of

the great stress placed on the

activities can be created: puzzles,

inclusion of audio. Exercise

associations, crosswords,

typologies offered include

identification activities, exploration

listening dictation, pronunciation,

activities, open-ended answers and

multiple choice, vocabulary

multiple choice.

completion, and audio flashcards.

INTERNET TOOLS
CMC -

computermediated
communication

AOL
MSN
Yahoo

Blogs and
wikies

Blogger
WordPress
Moveable Type
Wikipedia

WebQuests

CALICO - Computer
Assisted Language
Instruction Consortium

ASSOCIATIO
NS

IALLT - The
International
Association for
Language Learning
Technology
APACALL - The AsiaPacific Association for
Computer-Assisted
Language Learning

JOURNALS
In addition to articles
about technology and
language

learning

in

journals devoted to all

issues

on

language

teaching and learning,

there are a few journals
devoted

to

technologies
language learning.

new
and

LL&T
Langua
ge
Learnin
g&
Techno
logy
CALL
Compu
ter
Assiste
d
Langua
ge
Learnin
g
Journal

Syste
m
applica
tions of
educati
onal
technol
ogy

THANK YOU!