Going Global: Using italki to Connect with Native Speakers
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This document discusses using italki to connect language learners with native speakers for online language practice. It provides examples of how italki allows learners to have one-on-one lessons with professional teachers or language exchange partners to practice speaking. The document also discusses how italki can complement classroom learning by providing opportunities for real communication and cultural exchange with native speakers.
Going Global: Using italki to Connect with Native Speakers
- 1. Going Global: Using italki to Connect with Native Speakers
- 2. Typical Apps/Tools • Vocabulary “Games” • Quizzes • Videos • Podcasts • Blogs • Tablet Textbooks
- 3. course / content … us (the teacher) and … themselves.TECH Learner Content Class Teacher What is missing?
- 4. How did you fall in love with and learn your second language?
- 7. Why aren’t we more focused on technology that can replicate that experience?
- 9. This was simply not possible when many of us were in school.
- 11. * Garrison & Archer, 2003 Communication Medium: 3 Spheres • Social Presence: Interaction with Peers • Cognitive Presence: Interaction with Content • Teaching Presence: Interaction with Instructors Which is most important?
- 12. More and more people are using new technologies for self teaching. Let’s look at language learning for example. Over 100 million people all over the world are learning languages online today — and only a fraction of them would ever have considered using traditional learning materials or courses to do so. … It would never have occurred to the nurse in Louisville to buy a textbook or an expensive CD to learn a language — but now, she’s studying German on her tablet after her shift. http://www.wired.com/insights/2014/01/learning-revolution-education/
- 13. • Focusing on communication • Encouraging peer interaction • Taking full advantage of access to native speakers, native teachers, native tutors, native peer-group • Generating interest and motivation from real opportunities for communication • Pushing cross cultural understanding through international friendships
- 14. • Chatroom participants have significantly higher proficiency than ss in traditional oral classrooms (Payne & Whitney, 2002) • Known transfer between skill modalities for ss who participate in SCMC (Lund, 2006)
- 17. What it does • italki connects learners and teachers for 1-on-1 online language lessons Online Teachers • Two types of teachers - professional teachers and community tutors
- 18. • Students looking for opportunities to practice speaking • Pre-/Returning exchange students • College students preparing for proficiency tests • Homeschool students • School districts with limited FL programs What: • Get help from native teachers and tutors • Peer-to-peer learning (language exchange, corrections) • Complementary to classroom work
- 19. • Refreshing L2 skills • Accent reduction or reaching native level • Teacher-to-teacher dialogues • International cultural exchanges • Sharing educational techniques • Connecting classes (language exchange) • Broaden network
- 22. • Learner-Learner • Learner-Teacher • Learner-Content (Moore, 1989) *
- 23. • Teachers/Language Exchange Partners • Notebook • Discussion • Instant Tutoring
- 25. •Software: • Skype (most widely-used) • Dropbox (Blocked Websites & Slow Connections) • TinyUrl • YouTube Textbooks/Classes: What else are learners doing? Methodology: • Lesson Plan • Learner Objectives • Guide for Learners • Move away from high-tech, low-pedagogy
- 26. • “Go online and chat” doesn’t work • Wait times & turn-taking vary – this is not face-to-face communication • Use of photos & videos can decrease pressure for constant communication (O’Dowd, 2004) • Difficult to see non-verbal behavior • Debrief chats with teacher/partner to check intercultural mis/understanding (Schlikau, 2000)