M.A.in+English+Didactics

=HOJA DE VIDA= = = =LANGUAGE LEARNING RESOURCES MODULE=

It provides participants in the Master's Program in ELT methodology from Universidad de Caldas with a detailed overview of the course syllabus for the Language Learning Resources Module.
 * Professor:** Diego Fernando Macías

USEFUL LINKS

 * [|A Guide for Using the MLA Style]
 * [|Audacity]
 * [|BBC - Teaching English]
 * [|BBC Learning English]
 * [|Cartoons]
 * [|Dave's ESL Café]
 * [|Electronic Journal of FLT]
 * [|ELT Newsletter]
 * [|English Next]
 * [|English Teaching Forum Online]
 * [|Free Authentic Videos]
 * [|Games and activities in ELT]
 * [|IATEFL]
 * [|Karen's Linguistic Issues (Journal)]
 * [|Listening Exercises]
 * [|Literacy and Reading]
 * [|Monica's Bunch of Resources]
 * [|On Using the MLA Style]
 * [|Onestopenglish]
 * [|Online concordancer]
 * [|Oxford Teachers' Club]
 * [|Plagiarism Checker]
 * [|Podbean (Podcasts)]
 * [|Practice Speaking English]
 * [|Slideshare (Upload/Download slides)]
 * [|Speaking skills for ESL Learners]
 * [|TeacherTube]
 * [|Teaching English Games]
 * [|Teaching with Film and Video]
 * [|TESOL]
 * [|The Mixxer]
 * [|Videos (Yappr)]
 * Wikispaces (Create your own wiki)
 * [|Youtube]

TASK BASED PROJECT

The wiki: www.yohamer.wikispaces.com was created especially for Level I and III students at ILEUSCO (Instituto de Lenguas Extranjeras de la Universidad Surcolombiana). It is offered to these students in order to help them with extra tools to learn English. This is a pedagogical tool focused on developing and improving students’ abilities such as listening, reading, writing and speaking. This wiki is actually used as a website because students are not allowed to edit it. On this wiki students can find a collection of very useful websites which will help them develop and improve their skills in English. This wiki was created as a possible solution for those students who are struggling especially with their listening skill. It has also a motivational purpose because it is expected to raise interest, and reach student’s different learning styles. On the other hand it also tries to complement the textbook used with these students. This wiki is mostly used by students outside the classroom and a few times it is used during class period to solve doubts or check students’ progress. This strategy seems to be effective because students have shown an increased in their listening tests.
 * RATIONALE **

Level III students at ILEUSCO. This is a group of 16 students: half male half female. 14 students took level I and II at this institute; the other 4 students joined the group in this level after taking a placement test. So far these students have received about 200 hours of English classes and they have an A2 level according to the Common European Framework.
 * PROFILE OF LEARNERS **

This wiki was created in order to: 1. Develop and improve students’ listening skill. 2. Motivate students in their English language process.
 * OBJECTIVES OF TASK **

Students were expected to visit the wiki at least twice a week. There is a different activity each week (in this case I am referring to the video section activity). Students were asked to go to the “VIDEO ACTIVITIES” section and click on the “Mr. Bean’s Holiday” video. They watched it as many times as they wished and answered the questions that were provided. Then they had to write a short report of the video and turned it in.
 * TASK INSTRUCTIONS **

In order to check the students’ participation in the task, they were asked to write a short report of the video they watched. Besides this, they took a quiz of the same video with the questions they had already answered but also with some new ones.
 * EVALUATION OF TASKS IMPLEMENTATION **