Changing roles of teachers and learners in contemporary language education – Innovations Egri Bornemissza Gergely Szakközép-, Szakiskola és Kollégium Galapagar, Spain 03 – 06 May 2015

Factors influencing foreign language teaching expectations from the society and parents changing students’ needs new teacher-student relationship the responsibility of teaching a foreign language the increasing importance of technology

Language teachers’ tasks in creating high quality language learning environment need to take responsibility for their own work to teach learners to learn and develop themselves to create and maintain a resourceful learning environment to be able to develop themselves to use contemporary technologies for self-development

Plans

Motivation Extrinsic: the need to pass an exam the hope to financial reward the possibility of future travel Intrinsic: comes from within the individual

Sources of motivation the society students’ attitude to language learning the teacher the method

From blackboard to whiteboard

Pictures from lessons in the past

Computer assisted language learning Office applications (Word, PowerPoint etc) The Internet CD-ROMs for course books Interactive whiteboard Whiteboard softwares (given with language books)

Online applications in language teaching http://www.britishcouncil.org webquests www.webenglish.hu. web 2.0 www.redmenta.com Blogs, Facebook groups

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Disadvantages Expensive Problems with usage Sometimes need help to use Too many applications make them boring Easy to lose focus of pedagogy Advantages Interesting More enjoyable Large collection of resources Can be used outside class Bring the outside world into the classroom

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