Electronic Village Online

Jan-Feb 2006

Oral Skills and Technology

This session is sponsored by the Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Section of TESOL

TESOL, Inc,
the professional association

TIMELINE

1. Participants REGISTER for the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2006 Sessions during the 2-week period:

Monday, January 1 -

Sunday January 15, 2006

2. EVO 2005 SESSIONS run for 6 weeks:

Sunday, January 16 - Sunday, February 26, 2006

3. TESOL Convention 2006, Tampa Bay, FL, runs Wednesday, March 15 - Saturday, March 18, 2006. There will be meetings with and demonstrations by EVO session leaders and participants. An Internet Fair session will be held at the CALL IS Electronic Village, TBA.

Several events in the convention's Electronic Village will be synchronously Webcast by WorldBridges (Skype: worldbridges)

CONTACT THE ELECTRONIC VILLAGE ONLINE COORDINATION TEAM

In your mailer, be sure to remove the spaces in the address.

For queries about specific EVO sessions, please contact the moderator of the session directly.

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Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Computers for Education/Command Performance Language Institute, Sacramento, CA, USA
<ehansonsmi@yahoo.com>

Dafne González, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
<dygonza @ yahoo.com>

Chris Jones, Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ, USA
<edtec2002 @ yahoo.com>

Aiden Yeh, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
<aidenyeh @ yahoo.com>

Buthaina al-Othman, Kuwait University, Kuwait City
   <buthaina_3 @ yahoo.com>

Maryanne Burgos, Maryland, USA
   <maryanneburgos @ yahoo.com>

Susan Marandi, Al-Zahra University, Teheran, Iran
   <susanmarandi @ yahoo.com>

Nicolas Gromik, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
<gromik_tohoku @ yahoo.com.au>

Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu-Dhabi, UAE
<vstevens @ emirates.net.ae>

Christine Bauer-Ramazani, St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT, USA
    <cbauer-ramazani @ smcvt.edu>

To find out more about TESOL's Online Teaching Certificate Program (the foundation course begins January 16), go to TESOL and click on >PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and then >ONLINE EDUCATION, or e-mail edprograms@tesol.org.

(EVO is not a part of the OTCP.)

The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association offers the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2006 Convention in Tampa Bay, FL. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2006 participants and those who can participate only virtually.

You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in sessions of the Electronic Village Online.

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----> Sign up at this session site directly after January 1st.
Registration closes January 15.

Sessions run from January 16 to February 26.

We strongly recommend that you sign up for no more than two sessions.

Oral Skills and Technology

A forum for discussion of technologies used to teach speech, pronunciation, and listening

Moderators:

                        

Christine Parkhurst, USA
<Christine.Parkhurst@bos.mcphs.edu>

Are you using technology to teach oral skills already? Are you considering adopting new technologies? Do you wonder what’s out there?

This EVO session will provide a forum for discussion of technologies used to teach Speech, Pronunciation and Listening. What old and new technologies are out there? What are people doing with them?

Guest speakers with expertise in various technologies will explain what the possibilities are: what they do, how it works, and what it takes.

Participants will discuss their experience using old and new technologies. What works well? What problems and solutions exist? How do students react? How can technology be integrated? Why are some people early adopters while others resist? What impact does unequal distribution of resources have?

Target Audience

ESL/EFL teachers who use technology in teaching oral skills, or who are considering doing so.

Weekly Content

Week I – Introductions
Who are the participants and guest speakers? Who and where do they teach, using which technologies?

Week II – What technologies are available?
Brief descriptions of technologies available for teaching pronunciation/ speech/ listening/ grammar /assessment.

Week III - What works?
What technologies work well? What logistical problems and other problems and solutions exist?

Week IV - Distance education and oral skills
Online and hybrid courses: strong/weak points, overcoming logistical obstacles--what can and can't be done?

Week V - Integration
Strengthening connections between language labs, online resources, other technologies: What barriers exist, and how can they be overcome?

Week VI - Wrap-up
What are the main threads and next steps? Final discussion and evaluation.

Guest speakers (times to be arranged): Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Marsha Chan, Randall Davis, Dafne Gonzale

Communication Media

Oral Skills and Technology Yahoo Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oralskillsandtechnology

About the Moderators and Guest Speakers:

Christine Parkhurst <Christine.Parkhurst@bos.mcphs.edu> teaches oral communication at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She moderated EVO sessions on oral skills in two previous years with Rebecca Dauer.

Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Marsha Chan (http://www.sunburstmedia.com), Randall Davis (http://www.esl-com) and Dafne Gonzalez have extensive experience using various technologies to teach oral skills. They are active in organizations such as the CALL IS and in communities of practice such as Webheads in Action. Jim Duber (http://duber.com/) is an experienced ESL/EFL instructor and interactive media developer who specializes in designing CALL applications.

To join this session:

Go to the Oral Skills and Technology Yahoo Group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oralskillsandtechnology

and click on the blue button:

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