Posted in CALL, LSP, Materials design, Useful links, Vocabulary, tagged lexicography on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The WordNet project of Princeton University groups words into sets of cognitive synonyms. This modern thesaurus can be searched with a browser. The information you get when you search for the word travel, for example, looks like this:
However, if you check the same word in Visuwords, it’ll look like this:
Learners may find the second more [...]
Posted in General, Materials design, Skills, Useful links, tagged FL assessment, FL teaching, students with special needs on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over at the EALTA forum, an interesting discussion has started on the topic of testing learners with learning difficulties. Of course this touches on teaching foreign languages to learners with special needs as well.
I’m grateful to EALTA members for their kind support and would like to forward information they provided. It is important to be [...]
Posted in CALL, LSP, Materials design, Vocabulary, tagged workshop on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A CALL workshop was organized last Saturday by the E-Learning SIG of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers. It was hosted by Saša Sirk from Tehniški šolski center in Nova Gorica.
There were two workshops: searching for authentic materials and using Vocabulary Profiler for material design (Violeta Jurković) and using Hot Potatoes (Vida Zorko).
A few photo [...]
Posted in LSP, Materials design, Skills, Useful links on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slideshare is a real blessing: you can watch slide shows on various topics. For example these by Stephan Dahl on the topic of Consumer behaviour and Segmentation. They are also great as a teaching tool: you can ask your students to do the talking and sharpen up their presentation skills that way. The slide shows [...]
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