1. in English language teaching
ICT
in English language teaching
※Instructor:
Prof. Alice
※Group Members:
Iris
Vicky
Sharon
Melinda
2010.May.13

2. Outline What is ICT --Information Technology Capacity (IT Capacity)
--Functions of ICT
--Advantage Teaching
Learning
Research Paper
--Disadvantage

4. Traditional
ICT

5. --Example websites -- Important organizations --NGFL, BESA, TEEM, KITSch, Becta,

6. What is Information and Communications Technology(ICT)?
Website resources
Media material
Software

7. Media materials such as TV, video and radio resources
Micro-computers
Peripherals such as alternative access tools, interfaces for control and sensing equipment
Internet access and use
Integrated learning systems
Video conferencing facilities
Electronic mail systems
Electronic toys/programmable vehicles
Electronic assessment and recording systems

8. What is Information Technology Capacity?
An ability to
--use ICT tools effectively
--solve problems
--to analyze, process and present information
--support learning in a variety of contexts
--understanding the implication of ICT for working life and society

9. Functions of ICT
Speed and automatic functions: monitoring, controlling and feedback
Capacity and Range: richness of resources, the power of communication
Provisionality: ease of amending the outputs
Interactivity: dynamic feedback and immediate response to changing inputs

10. Advantages of ICT for Teaching-1
Presenting information and ideas in a dynamic, attractive and exciting way.
Explaining some difficult concepts and knowledge easily
Ensuring clear delivery of teaching points
Assisting in the preparation of teaching materials

11. Advantages of ICT for Teaching-2
Assisting with time management in class
Helping to cater for students with difficult abilities
Helping to develop students’ co-operative learning skills
Assessing students and using the information gained to extend their learning
Sharing ideas, communicating with the outside world and getting new information about the subject being taught

12. Advantages of ICT for Learning-1
reinforcing students’ learning in a variety of ways
Allowing students to change things easily if they make mistakes, want to add or delete something, try out ideas or make improvements
Enabling them to learn by themselves at their own pace
Saving time
Allowing students easy access to a wide range of information

13. Advantages of ICT for Learning-2
Helping them to interpret data and communicate what they have found out
Enabling them to learn subjects that are difficult or dangerous to teach
Enabling them to connect with the outside world
Being patient with students when they make mistakes or do not understand
Improving their thinking

14. NGFL Approved Sites for Learning
ICT can facilitate learning and teaching in different fields and subjects
For instance, Drumcroon is for art
Drumcroon
History：Cadbury’s History

15. NGFL Approved Sites for Learning
TeacherNet
National Curriculum Online
Virtual Teacher Center
Teacher Resource Exchange

16. Even you are looking for something cool…
Cool Planet – good resource for English teaching

17. ICT and educational (dis)advantage：families, computers and contemporary socical and educational inequalities
~ Lawrence Angus, Ilana Snyder & Wendy Sutherland-Smith
University of Ballarat, Australia；Monash University, Australia

18. Qualitative research
Four different families
Equal access to ICT
-- previous disadvantaged family members are not particularly advantaged by their access to Information and communication Technologies(ICT)
Conclusion：ICT can break through the limitation from social-political influence regardless of the complexity and variety of learners

19. English learning websites can be your teachers who are …
Free
Resourceful
Always available
and most importantly…

20. You will NEVER be failed even if you are not that good in all kind of circumstances.
For instance, if you were lazy…

21. Principles Development Government policy
Some organizations— NGFL(National Grid for Learning) Becta KITSch BESA Teem
Principles
Development
Government policy

22. Computers can never replace teachers.
Computers can free teachers to do what we do best—teaching.

23. Disadvantage Machine translation
Providing appropriate feedback to learners
Voice recognition
Grammar checking
Essay marking

24. 1. Machine translation：
The derivation of language formula causes serious breakdowns in the comprehensibility of machine-translated text

25. 2. Providing appropriate feedback to learners
Mechanized systems don’t have the capacity to customized feedback with the same sensitivity that a human instructor does

26. 3. Voice recognition
It refers to a capability of a computer or software program to accept and interpret spoken dictation, or to understand and carry out voice command

27. The software isn’t sensitive to contexts or convention of uses
4. Grammar checking
The software isn’t sensitive to contexts or convention of uses

28. 5. Essay marking
The computer doesn’t access whether the writer has in fact addressed the essay topic

29. Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
~John F. Kennedy … President of United States Inaugural Address (1961)
Ask not what you can do for the Internet – ask what the Internet can do for you.

30. How can we learn and teach English by using websites?
Listening, speaking,
reading, writing
and software