http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFPHW7BCCI

13-1) Class Activities

[Note Taking]

+Grammar 
 linguistic knowledge / rule memorization - boring / separates skill, no integration into other skills /prescriptive rule

 To improve our grammar lessons? rule + use!!! Shift paradigm and change in test questionnaire!!!!

PPP   Presentation, Practice, Produce
TBLT   Task Based Language Teaching  task(communication, practice first and learn what students need.)

+Error Correction
 Teachers need to be careful not to focus on error correction!!

- Build students' confidence 

- Focus on the content of their communication rather than the grammatical form.
- Get exposed to the correct input repeatedly.
- Real grammatical activities

- Meaning first, and then form later
- Expose to authentic reading materials through extensive reading.


+Integrate Grammar Lesson(passive voice)
Why students use the passive voice? To emphasize the action, to highlight the object than the subject......
   There are many reasons 'when we use' & 'why we use'!!!!- corpus data, Internet, books,etc.


[Grammar Tools and Resources]

+Grammar Games
•Grammar Practice Park (hartcourt)http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_language/grammar_park.html
•Game Zone (online Grammar) http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm
•Game Over (British counsil) http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar-games
•Skillwise: Grammar game (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
•Learning Planet http://www.learningplanet.com/act/rats/ratslist2.asp


+Grammar Tutorials and Exercises
•English Club's Grammar http://www.englishclub.com/grammar
•Guide to Grammar and Writing http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
•Daily Grammar (RSS. Facebook etc.) http://dailygrammarlessons.blogspot.com/
•Grammar Quizzes based on VOA http://www.manythings.org/voa/
•Flash Grammar Quiz for ESL students http://www.manythings.org/fq/
•ITESLJ Links: Grammar http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html
•Grammar Monster http://www.grammar-monster.com/
•Grammar Exercises http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm
•English Grammar for you http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar
•Exercises at Grammar Bytes http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm

+Grammar Tools and Forum
•Grammar Checker (Grammarly) http://ed.grammarly.com/editor/view/?f=1
•Check my word http://mws.ust.hk/cmw/index.php?
•BNC (VIEW:Variation in English Words and Phrases) http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc
•Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search
•Randomly generated sentences http://www.manythings.org/rs/
•Ask grammar lady http://www.aacton.gladbrook.iowapages.org/id3.html

http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

http://dailygrammarlessons.blogspot.kr/

http://www.manythings.org/fq/

http://ed.grammarly.com/editor/view/?f=1

   'Grammarly' is an automated proofreader that was designed to check a written article for grammatical errors. This program checks for grammatical errors, misspelled words, words used in the wrong context, misused punctuation, and possible plagiarism. Extra features include a vocabulary enhancement tool and the ability to automatically generate reference citation. The vocabulary enhancement tool recognizes "plain" words and, in an attempt to improve readability, offers synonymous suggestions.

http://www.google.com/advanced_search

http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

Discussion Questions 8

• What are the common problems in teaching grammar? What is a recently defined goal of teaching grammar?

            I think grammar is an ancillary role, that is, the purpose of teaching grammar is facilitating other 4 skills, reading, writing, speaking, and listening. However, some teachers forget this purpose and only focus on grammar, so they force their students to memorize terms of grammar such as '관계대명사, 분사구문, etc.'. These teaching grammar, which miss the final goal, make just students think grammar is difficult and useless. By these teaching, students just know terms of grammar, but they do not apply in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
              These days, the goal of grammar instruction is to enable students to carry out their communication purposes. Teachers remind the purposes and goals of teaching grammar to make students to apply their grammar knowledge in their real life.

• Explain communicative competence model of teaching grammar by using the example, "past tense." (NCLRC) or integrative grammar lesson (Pekoz)

          I will show you an example of class to explain communicative competence. First a teacher makes students talk with their classmate about what they did in yesterday. The teacher induce them to use past tense. After conversation, students read the essay written with a lot of past tenses, and teacher asks them to find the past tenses. After reading, students are asked to write their diary about what they did in yesterday and read aloud and listen class mates' diary one another.

Wikispaces

http://multimediagwh.wikispaces.com/

week 12-1) Class Activities

•Internet TESL Journal's Reading List

•Student's project: Self-access online reading 1   2   3

•Moodle Reader :Extensive reading

•MA students' eNews Paper Project: IVY Times

•eNIE project: My Apple News

•My online reading collection for children

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My Idea-Making simple image of listening

☞CALL review 3☜

     Professor displayed multiple online tools and resources for speaking. I posted activities which I enjoyed in last class. So you can check very useful CALL speaking resources or programs if you click on the hyperlink here. http://younahing.blogspot.kr/2012/10/week-7-2-class-activities.html

   My favorite resource among a lots of online speaking tools is Practice Speaking with Mike (Talkingbot) http://www.eslfast.com/robot/tutor_mike.htm. This homepage provides us very simple but useful activity for ESL Students. In this site, we can see the talkingbot called 'Mike', who is our teacher and helper to improve our speaking skill. Firstly, he begin to introduce the purpose of this site. Under the him, there is a box where we can talk with him. If you type something in the chatting box, he answer very fast. By asking some questions and having conversation with Mike, we can learn how to reply to real native people or English users. While I had conversation with him, I felt as if I talk a real foreigner. As a result, I can learn authentic language naturally and practice conversation out of class.
 

   The strengths of this CALL resource are countless. Firstly I think students can engage in real conversation without going abroad to meet a native English speaker. It is conductive to time saving and also money saving.

   Second, this site can help student study by content-based instruction, because he can answer also easy academic questions. When I asked "Where is Korea?", he answered Mike: The country is located in Asia. Like this we can also gain the knowledge.
   Lastly, we can use this site anytime and anywhere, without any help, because it is very simple and easy to use. We do only Just enter the question, and answer the Mike's comment. These simple activities can help you improve English speaking skills.

  However, there are also some weaknesses. When I asked same question repeatedly, he just showed same answer. Also I sometimes get his strange and inappropriate answers when I asked some weird questions to see how well he can answer. Like these examples YOU: i dided Mike: I see what you mean. or  YOU: i will be killed Mike: You will? OK he has a limitation. Furthermore, he can not understand questions with type-off. YOU: Where is Koorea? Mike: I really don't know. Would you teach me if you know? Please say "It is ..." .  If the site take some advises into consideration and try to change some defaults it has, then it will become a better useful site for all kinds of English learners around the world. Furthermore I think this site needs some functions such as capturing the chat or uploading to own blog, twitter, or facebook, and also if we can share with another users the chat, we can learn easily how others chat with Mike, checking various dialogues.

   Finally I think this CALL is very useful and motivating tool for English learners. If I will be a English teacher, I use this effective site for my future students.