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Individual activity 3. Step 6. Unit 3. Concept map

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RONAL MAURICIO RAMOS

QUESTIONS

1. What are your perceptions on the Use of Blogs for EFL Learning?

Answer: I think that the use of blogs for English as a Foreign Language are very important because by mean of those you can interact with other people, share your own ideas, opinions, expressions, and also, share new information that help to your partners resolve your questions about the English Learning.

2. Which ones are the alternatives in ELT methodology?

Answer: As an alternative, in case of technological problems, it was also possible for teachers to introduce the guidelines in class using an overhead projector or a data projector. In the second semester courses, some teachers especially preferred this method as they found it more practical since students were already familiar the nature of the WebQuest tasks. Then it was decided to leave students free to work independently outside the class provided that they submitted their work either through the e-mail or by hand at announced dates for each step in the given WebQuest task. Moreover, it was suggested that students should be informed that they could get in touch with their teachers through e-mail when they encountered problems. It was also decided to give feedback to students’ work in class or during office hours in order to better guide them for each step of the assigned WebQuests.

3. What are the students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses?

Answer: With the advent of the Internet age, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and computer-mediated communication (CMC) have become important pedagogical tools that integrate information technology with English writing (Fitzpatrick & Davies, 2003; Fotos & Browne, 2004; Warschauer & Kern, 2000). Wiki technology, in particular, has emerged as an innovative Web 2.0 tool that has been widely used by English-language teachers to facilitate students’ English writing (for example, Coniam & Lee, 2008; Lin & Yang, 2011; McPherson, 2006).

4. How can we integrate critical Approach to Second Language Learning?

Answer: Critical thinking refers to the individuals’ ability to think and make correct decisions independently. Nowadays enhancing critical thinking in learners is considered one of the foreign language teachers’ tasks due to its high position in foreign language classrooms.

AUDIO:

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VALERIA HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ

QUESTIONS

1. What are your perceptions on the Use of Blogs for EFL Learning?

I thinks that the use of Blogs for EFL learning are useful to develop the writing and reading skills, because students can share ideas, thoughts, information, audiovisual material, links of different web pages or sources to increase the knowledge about a specific topic and meanwhile they have to read all this comments and make feedbacks to participate in the process of construction collaboratively.

v  With the use of Blogs we can: Share information in an asynchronous and synchronous way

v  We can interact with different people from anywhere and anytime

v  Participate collaboratively in the construction of knowledge

v  We can make and receive feedback about our knowledge and contributions and feedback to other.

Some advantages for students are:

v  Student can complete task in a different way

v  Motivate students to work in group and write

v  Encourages creativity

v  Develop critical thinking

v  Develop social and communicative skills

v  Facilitates the comprehension of topics

v  Improve the literacy

Some advantages for teacher are:

v  Teacher can Know the student`s perception about a specific topic

v  Teacher can complete the explanation of topics

v  Identify student`s reading and writing strengths and weaknesses

It is important know to use this tool, because the interesting of participate in this spaces depends the content to discuss, teacher have to promote this spaces with interesting topics and encourage students for its use. This spaces have to be the opportunity of complete the knowledge acquired in class and not a boring task that make more complicated the learning process.

2. Which ones are the alternatives in ELT methodology?

WEBQUEST allows students to perform real tasks, in which they will not perform the typical tasks of answering questions in front of the computer but will be able to analyze, think critically, solve problems and develop more complex cognitive structures, as it encourages creation, imagination and the investigative spirit.

WEBQUEST is an important alternative in the methodology because it allows students to develop critical thinking, since they will be able to put their prior knowledge in context so that by analyzing the situation, you can be able to solve a problem.

3. What are the students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses?

The perception in general is that Wiki foment the discussion of different topics, improving the communicative skills of students, because students have to put in context all their prior knowledge, in the case of students of a foreign language, this spaces bring the opportunity to share information with people from all over the world, being able to stablish a conversation, using grammar rules, common expressions and vocabulary.

Some student said that meanwhile they think what answer or feedback, they don’t know a lot of words that they want to use, for that this spaces improve the writing skills because obligan to students to know the meaning and spelling of words for the information, contribution, feedback or whatever you want call, it will be correct and the meaning of the massage be correct and the same for the writer and reader.

Also some students said that this spaces is a lost of time, because they don’t think that with the use of Wiki technology, the can improve their writing skill because they know the meaning of words and don’t learn anything. Also some students said that they have to read all the massages to give a complete and significant feedback, other students said that to know the feedback of the other people have to read all the comments, but not all comments are about the topic in discuss or don’t answer the specific questions, and make lost time, because they have to complete the task with other spaces.

In my personal opinion, I think that Wiki technology allows to student to interact, share information and construct knowledge together, also foment the collaborative work and develop the writing skill because, when we don’t know how to spell or write some word we have to look for the meaning to be able to make us be understood or understand others.

4. How can we integrate critical Approach to Second Language Learning?

The internet allow teacher and students interact with different sources to make the classes and knowledge more interesting, dynamic, didactic and pedagogical, motivating students to learn and use the technology as an important tool to enrich their knowledge.

To integrate a critical approach to second language learning teacher have to foment different environments to share information, this spaces, plattforms, environment, multimedia formats or any tool that teacher use, have to be easy to use, have to allow to students improve their knowledge, sharing with their classmates and other student or teacher or people in general. This spaces available in the internet have to motivate to student to keep learning and learn by themselves.

AUDIO:

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