INNOVATIVE TEACHING PRACTICES SUPPORTED BY THE FOCUSED USE OF ICT TOOLS IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

  Reading strategies are.... Research shows us that… There is a relationship between language proficiency and strategy use. Successful learners use strategies more frequently. Successful learners use a wider range of strategies. So, it makes sense for teachers to encourage learners to expand their strategy repertoires and to make frequent use of the strategies that they have at their disposal in order to maximize their chances of success. SORS (Survey Of Reading Strategies) As an L2 teacher, at the beggining of the year, I prepared a SORS (Survey Of Reading Strategies). The purpose of this survey is to collect information about the techniques my students use when they read academic materials in (English). Here is the SORS. You can download it if you need it. Just click here . After taking this survey, I present the reading strategies that we are going to use during the course. Then, we choose a place in the class to hang them. Furthermore, I give each student a check list with all...

  When I look at these photos and think about my reading habits, I realize how they have changed over the years.  Our society is constantly changing and our reading strategies must be adapted to this changes.  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A2008_BostonPublicLibrary_2223721594.jpg The first image reminds me to one of the most important stages of my life at the university. When I was studying my degree I used to visit the library everyday to research, study or making project with my classmates. We worked with different types of text (narrative, descriptive, essays, dissertations, report, news, etc...) and specific ones that we used to photocopy. During these years, I wrote down a lot of notes  that I organised in different subjects to read and study. The majority of these texts and books were chose by the teachers. But I also enjoyed the library when I had free time to read for pleasure. I like to read all different kind of books, but I love adventures books ...

  This is a blog to post all the activities that I am going to do during my online course  " INNOVATIVE TEACHING PRACTICES SUPPORTED BY THE FOCUSED USE OF ICT TOOLS IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM". The goal of this blog is: -  To promote pedagogical innovation in languages through TACs.  -  To incorporate new TACs resources in the teaching practice of language teachers. - To encourage new methodological practices in language classroom. - To cooperate in the classroom using TACs resources. - To reflect about different techniques in the language classroom. - To evaluate our daily practise.  We are going to begin with two images about "Telling the time in English"  and "Famous landmarks in  Europe". Oxford Premium resource These two images are from two different websites. The first one is from  https://englishstudyhere.com/  and the second one belongs to  https://oxfordpremium.oupe.es/app/home  . There are many websites where we can st...