This comes as no surprise to me. As a student and teacher, I much prefer online learning to F2F learning. The report on which this article is based can be found at http://foxyurl.com/7No. GetEducated.com | U.S. Dept. of Education Finds Online & Blended Education More Effective than Residential Method Alone Is online education as effective [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Yet another reason not to use textbooks in the L2 classroom
Take a look at http://foxyurl.com/70W and see if something doesn’t strike you as just a little odd.
More puzzles
What I’ve been posting as riddles (the JAR postings) would be more accurately described as puzzles or word games. I had students write their own puzzles today and they did extremely well. Here are two examples of what they created. After posting the puzzles, each group then invited the other students to ask yes/no questions [...]
JAR: Just Another Riddle
I’m thinking of two words that rhyme. The first word is a body part, and is a compound noun. The second word is something that can be eaten. Both words are for things that are hard on the outside.
SACODEYL
Here’s a nice resource for those of you looking for authentic L2 input: SACODEYL Corpus Search The corpora are based on structured video interviews with pupils between 13 and 18 years of age. The interviews have been annotated and enriched for language learning purposes. Feel free to explore them on your own! Access to the [...]
Story telling: Choose the true one
Here’s a very simple activity I’ve done as part of a story writing module. This is based on one of the Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me program. In small groups, students think of three stories, two fictional and one that really happened to one of the group members. All stories should be somewhat unusual yet [...]