The document discusses using information and communication technologies (ICT) to enable learner-centered learning in teaching English. It compares teacher-centered vs learner-centered approaches and notes that ICT changes how teachers teach and students learn. The roles of ICT include providing information, enabling communication and collaboration, and providing tools to support learning activities. Examples of ICT tools that can make learning enjoyable include search engines, email, chat programs, mailing lists, and online course management systems. Maximizing search engines requires understanding how to craft effective search queries. Communication requires following netiquette guidelines. ICT provides many opportunities but also requires adapting to new innovations.

1. Using ICT to Teach English:
Towards Learner-centered
Learning
Presented by
Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. (http://bpdp.name)
Training for English Teacher
MDIS Tashkent
2012

2. Teacher-centered vs Learner-centered
Paradigms
As a teacher, which one do you prefer?
This comparison was taken from
http://assessment.uconn.edu/docs/TeacherCenteredVsLearnerCenteredParadigms.pdf
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3. Fact: Like it or not, ICT change the
way teachers teach and students
learn
This comparison was taken from Johnson, D., Johnson, R.& Holubec, E. (1998). Cooperation in the classroom.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon (http://www.intime.uni.edu/coop_learning/ch9/default.htm)
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4. Role of ICT
 Provide Information
 Enable Communication
 Enable Cooperation and
Collaboration
 Provide Tools to Support Learning
Activities
 Makes learning enjoyable and fun
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5. Tools Requirements
 Relatively good computer
 Internet connection
 Sofware:
◦ Operating System: Linux, Mac, Windows
◦ Office Suite (LibreOffice, OpenOffice,
Microsoft Office)
◦ Web Browser: Firefox, Safari, Opera,
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer
◦ Other (depends on teaching needs)
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6. Information Retrieval
 A search engine is used to search for
information on the Internet. The
search results may varies and
sometimes overwhelming.
 A working Internet connection and
web browser are the main
requirements
 Teachers and students should be able
to maximize Search Engine to retrieve
information from Internet
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7. How to Maximize Search
Engine?
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8. How to Maximize Search Engine
(cont)
 SE will search and query its database
based on keywords, statements, or
terms that we type in search box
 Therefore it is important to grab the
core of anything that we want to ask
and put that in SE.
 This ability to grab the core is not an
instant capabilites of person. It needs
enough knowledge.
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9. How to Maximize Search Engine
(cont)
 Some tips and tricks in using Google:
◦ -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last
modified" +"parent directory" +description
+size +(doc|pdf) “TOEFL“
 Searching all doc or pdf files for TOEFL material
◦ Ask time: “what time is it Tashkent”
◦ Track flight status: “Delta Flight 502”
◦ Metrics and conversion: “seconds in a
year”, “5 euro in us dollars”, “cm in inches”
◦ Adding a tilde (~) to a search term will return
related terms: “~IELTS”
◦ Use some specific terms: “better
than”, “and”, “or”, etc.
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10. How to Maximize Search Engine
(cont)
 Remember: not all files that you got
from the Internet are legal.
 You may also use other search engine
to search for illegal material:
http://www.rapidlibrary.com
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11. Enabling Communication
 E-mail
 Chat:
◦ Text only
◦ Text + Voice
◦ Text + Voice + Video
 Almost every chat software provide
abilities to send / receive message in
text, voice, and video
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12. Enabling Communication
(cont)
 There is a netiquette which is used as
a guide for etiquette in Internet-based
communication:
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/
index.html. Sounds complex? yes. It is
complex because Internet is complex
and worse: it is possible to hide.
 Remember: “On the Internet, nobody
knows that you are a dog”. Be very
careful.
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13. Cooperation and
Collaboration
 Mailing List: a discussion group which
uses e-mail as a media to communicate.
Everything is discussed openly and
transparently. Archives available so that
members can always read them.
 Nettiquette also applies to mailing list.
 Free mailing list provider:
◦ http://groups.yahoo.com
◦ http://groups.google.com
 Social networking: Facebook, Twitter,
Foursquare, Google Plus, LinkedIn,
MySpace
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14. Tools to Support Learning
Activities
 Office Suite: LibreOffice, OpenOffice,
Microsoft Office, Calligra
 Games
 Course Management System, Learning
Management System, e-Learning
 Simulation for TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, IELTS,
SAT, etc:
◦ http://www.testden.com/jasaibtdemo/demohome.
htm
◦ http://www.testden.com/challenge/free-toefl.asp
◦ http://www.perfect9center.com/ielts_sim_test.php
◦ http://www.testpreppractice.net/ to Teach English: Towards
Using ICT
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15. Is that all?
 No. Things are change and innovation
happens daily.
 Expect dead software / dead project /
dead website and new website, new
way of collaboration, new facilities,
new software, and other new
innovation. That means: learn and
study should be in everybody’s soul.
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