This presentation was the part of the 2nd Comenius meeting as a seminar for teachers where we discussed roles of both ICT and English language in education and business. The title of the Comenius LLL project is "Enterprising, healthy and creative"

1. The role of English language
and ICT in education
2nd Comenius Multilateral Meeting
Hungary, 12-18 May 2013
Marijana Smolčec, ELT teacher

2. English language in Croatian schools
School programmes
Lessons per week
High school
3 x 45min
Economics
3 x 45min
Hotel and tourism
(English – 1st and 2nd
language)
4 x 45min (1st and 2nd yr)
3 x 45min (3rd and 4th yr)
Sales assistant
2 x 45min

3. English language
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General English (shopping, housing, travel,
schooling...)
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ESP (English for Specific Purposes)
-studying to enter professions, focusing on the language
of academic performance in specific discourse
communities

4. What is ESP?
LSP/ESP is…
 Learner-centered, second/foreign language training*
 Needs-based
 Characterized by collaboration with workplace/content
experts
 Characterized by the use of appropriate, authentic
tasks & materials (specificity and relevance)
 Not synonymous with “content-based instruction.” CBI
is an approach to syllabus design, often employed in ESP
courses
Adapted from Hutchinson and Waters 1987.
Source: Kevin Knight for TESOL ESP-IS

5. ESP Fileds
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Hotel and tourism
Business (marketing, managment...)
Engineering
Medicine
Law
Information Technology...

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in Croatian vocational schools, English is
usually taught as:
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General English (first 2 years)
ESP (3rd and 4th year)
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7. Correlating English with other subjects
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Marketing
Economics
Tourism ( at the reception, types of hotels...)
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CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)
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8. Which skills we mainly teach?
Speaking skills (role play, dialogues, group
work)
 Writing skills:
- formal
- informal
(CV, Cover letter, emails, letters of complaints,
requests, Film reviews, essays...)
 Vocabulary building (ESP) + Reading..
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9. Sources – teaching materials
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Course books by publishers like:
Longman, Oxford, Macmillan...

10. Useful Websites – teacher resources
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(http://mojamatura.net/)
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
http://busyteacher.org/
http://writefix.com
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ (British Council.uk)

11. Language skill practice - websites
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Exams (PET, FCE, CAE, CPE...), interactive listening lessons, reading
exercises, teacher resources/ materials, games, quizzes, IELTS writing
makeovers, downloadable activities....)
Free English Lessons http://www.esolcourses.com/
English Club http://www.englishclub.com/
Exam English http://www.examenglish.com/index.html
Englisch Hilfen http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/
Using English http://www.usingenglish.com/
FCE practice http://etornauta.wordpress.com/about/
English Speaker http://www.englishspeaker.com/index.html
A Teacher’s Odyssey http://www.teachersodyssey.blogspot.com/
A Journey in TEFL http://evasimkesyan.edublogs.org/
A Clil to Climb http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/

12. Blogs on Business English
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Sandy Milin’s blog
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/online-resources-for-businessenglish-teaching/
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Vicky Loras’ blog
http://vickyloras.wordpress.com/business-english/

13. How do students learn nowadays?
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They google everything they want to know about.
They watch videos and tutorials to learn how to do
things.
They use social network sites to interact, share
information and ask for help.
They prefer to learn by doing, experimenting, creating.
topnews.in
Source: Ana Maria Menezes, Developing the 4 Skills with Webtools
http://lifefeast.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-e-book-developing-4-skills-with.html

14. Old vs New Learners
OLD LEARNERS
NEW LEARNERS
- Text based
- Competitive
- Task oriented
- Private
-- Tecno-phobic
- Sequential
- Formal
- Passive
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Visual
- Collaborative
- Goal-oriented
- Social
- Tech-savy
- Multi-taskers
- Personal
- Hands on
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/kiranb/elearning-21st-century-perspectives-on-teaching-learning-and-technology

15. What is the role of a teacher?
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rethink the way we prepare our lessons
Give students more opportunity to analyze, discuss,
collaborate and create new content based on the
knowledge they have learned about
How can webtools help us and our students internalize
language more meaningfully?
Source: Ana Maria Menezes, Developing the 4 Skills with Webtools
http://lifefeast.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-e-book-developing-4-skills-with.html

16. 10+ web tools and sites to use in
(English) Classroom
TEXT/ IMAGE TOOL CREATORS
VOICE (Audio) TOOLS –
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Wordle
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Voki
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Tagxedo
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Image chef
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Voxopop
Vocaroo
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ESL videos
GAME TOOL CREATOR
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Discovery Puzzle Maker
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Classtools
ONLINE STICKY NOTES/Posters
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Linoit
Wallwisher - Paddlet
Glogsters
VOIP TOOLS –SPEAKING/COMMUNICATION
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Skype, Yahoo Messenger
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Google+hangout
VIDEO TOOLS
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EYEJOT
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Animoto
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Photopeach
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Youtube
Collaboration tools
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Wiki
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Googledrive (docs, forms)
Facebook secret groups
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Research
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Surveymonkey
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FB Polls

18. WORDLE

19. Ideas for Wordle...
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motivation
brainstorming
writing (Sts write their own sentences, tales...)
revision
literature (guess the novel, fairytale...) or use key words to
describe the character
pre-reading, post-reading exercise...
introduce new vocabulary (personality adjectives...)
create a classroom poster (classroom managment, norms...)
irregular verbs

20. More useful links
Box of Tricks
http://www.boxoftricks.net/
Free Technology for Teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
ICT in education
http://www.ictineducation.org/
Cyber-kap blog
http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/
Teacher Training Videos by Russell http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
Standard
Nik Peachy’s blog
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
ICTmagic
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/
Netokracija
http://www.netokracija.com/
Educationaltechguy
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com
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21. Shelly Terrell - http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/

22. Conclusion
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Teachers use students books + online materials
Online materials and tools = CREATIVITY
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Teachers =lifelong learners /facilitator
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Students = digital learners / digital natives
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Show students other uses of Internet not just game playing, downloading and
social networking
Social networks(Facebook, Edmodo, Twitter) can be used in education as well
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23. What do we do?

24. What can we try to do?
Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.”
(Benjamin Franklin

25. Thank you for your patience!