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My favourite webtool for Techno-CLIL 2017 Augusto

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Peer review grid Techno-CLIL - Tedesco on Stefanelli

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https://v.gd/XeBXq6

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https://www.easel.ly/infographic/9q6wre

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Augusto Tedesco - Reflections and Infographics Link

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https://youtu.be/wAJaQ3s8CGg

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Cultural diversity no. 2 - fill in the gaps

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Cultural diversity no. 1 - fill in the gaps

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My belief is that Extensive Reading can be a very valuable way of learning a language, evidently because it fosters motivation and can even raise enthusiasm in the students.

In fact it is just the opposite of the compulsory ‘intensive reading’ that is usually practiced in most schools, as reading extensively consists in consuming large amounts of texts in order to get to know the end of the story, so that we could also say it is about choice, freedom and pleasure.

When we read extensively, we can forget dictionaries and vocabularies, because we are reading well within our comfort zone; moreover choosing freely what we read for our personal enjoyment and interest is really liberating, motivating and empowering.

This is the ideal way for a reader to learn from the context: as he/she encounters things repeatedly, he/she will eventually remember them, as the more important and common an expression is, the more often he/she will encounter it.

In my opinion, the particularly important element is the emotional tie to the content, in fact it is scientifically demonstrated that we remember more easily when we are excited, having fun, being scared for the characters, focusing on the important dialogue, than just from course books; you also get to think in the language you are reading. This is just what happens to me too whenever I read a book or watch a movie and those moments get longer and longer.

As far as grammar is concerned, ER can help you develop a feeling for what is and is not correct, similar to that you have for your mother tongue.

Usually students do not like reading much and that is why they seldom practise it, yet Extensive Reading offers an alternative approach: the value of reading depends on different characteristics, one being reading for pleasure, and students can choose books based on their own interests. I love reading and I often ask my students to read aloud, sometimes I invite them to make an effort and recite, especially poems: my aim is to let them act as they were on stage, so that they can feel the passion, sorrow and pathos which led the author to write his work and understand its real essence. Unluckily, at the moment I teach in a Professional School and I still haven’t had a chance to experiment my Extensive Reading Lesson Plan, but I look forward to carrying it out as soon as possible, maybe next year.

Anyway, I have appreciated this experience very much and I must thank Techno CLIL 2017 for it!!!

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Augusto Tedesco - Extensive Reading and CLIL connections

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Looking forward to getting the Super Badge :-)

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Looking forward to getting the Super Badge :-)

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ICT is to be considered as a fundamental means of implementing interactive techniques and methodologies that help promote autonomous learning, peer interaction and language use for communicative aims. Wherever you have interactive whiteboards, Internet-connected computers and students who are digital natives, it is time to develop learning strategies based upon new technologies! As teachers we can all exploit important tools that allow us to move forward in the development of new strategies and skills to foster education and actual educational needs of individuals, in order to ensure that our students can reach a good level of integration and adaptation to an environment where innovation and change occur every day. Obviously the implementation of bilingual programs based on the CLIL methodology requires a greater degree of participation from pupils in the teaching-learning process they are likely to generate: not only is the learning of the content fundamentally important, but also the learning of the language to access that same content is to be underlined; that is why ICT in the classroom can be useful as a resource: in fact it can be highly motivating and productive for the students, revealing itself as a generator and facilitator of teaching and learning strategies for the teacher too. The combined action of CLIL and ICT in the classroom can result in a symbiotic process which is very intuitive for the student and, at the same time, strongly rewarding for the teacher. It can even help start reducing the anachronistic dualism between education and actual educational needs of individuals, so that we may say that a necessary process of change in education systems is happening at last: we are all asked to join it!

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Week 2 TechnoCLIL Blog Post: SnappyWords

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Week 2 TechnoCLIL Blog Post: SnappyWords

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Snappy Words is a very interesting tool: it is basically an interactive English dictionary and thesaurus ,which can be used not only to find the meanings of a word, but also shows all its connections to associated words. This way each user can visually realize the meaning of the term he/she is looking for by simply going over it with the mouse cursor. Besides learning how words associate through an interactive display, anyone can get help  for their essays, articles, blogs or just play with words.  Moreover you don’t need any software installation, just an internet connection and, most important of all, it is absolutely free!!!

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CLIL is undoubtedly a model of learning which presents a series of advantages: in fact it can get students to better proficiency and fluency, both by boosting their motivation and improving their intercultural awareness.

Of course there are some limitations too, in particular originating from theoretical and methodological shortcomings and their interaction with contextual factors, which are  always to be taken into consideration in order to get positive results.