1. SpeakApps Tools and Tasks Barcelona, December 13th, 2014
Rachel Playfair & Maria Luisa Malerba

2. SpeakApps Tools

3. Workshop Questions How do you teach oral skills?
What learning environments can you use?
What makes a speaking task fun or engaging?
What should you take into account when designing an oral task?
What task types work well?
How many of you are using Moodle / Blended or face to face / Use Skype
What tools do you use
Oral production and speaking interaction
Teaching contexts
Main

4. Langblog is a blog with audio and video functionality which is embedded into a virtual classroom.

5. Task Design Criteria Task length Visual support Interaction
Authenticity
Challenge
Relevance
Instruction format
Visual / Audio Input
Examples / Prompts
Growth

6. Task Types Warm Up Activities Giving Information Describing Processes
Presentations
Describing Processes
Giving opinion / commentary
Picture / Object Descriptions
Guessing Games
Story-telling
Rhymes and Poetry
Error Correction Tasks
Pronunciation Practice
Feedback / Reflection
Task Types

7. Keep in mind… Instruction format Instruction length and clarity
Give an example
Specify the language to be included
Set a time limit
Encourage speaking naturally, not reading a script
How you prepare for recording (before/during/after)

8. Using SpeakApps tools in the future?
The tools are not stand alone programmes.
To use these tool in the future you can…
use the tools directly from the SpeakApps platform.
install the tools in your local LMS (Blackboard, Moodle etc)
Installed locally by the LMS administrator
Installed and run off the SpeakApps machines
Request a classroom from SpeakApps and try the tools!

9. www.speakapps.eu / @speakapps speakapps@uoc.edu
Thank you!