This section contains articles about CALL – Computer Assisted Language Learning. From specific CALL activities, to information on CALL in general, to useful software available for the classroom. Finally there are articles slightly more general in nature about teachers and technology – using social media sites like Facebook, for example and the pitfalls for teachers.
If you are interested in CALL remember that we also run a unique CALL Certificate Course – the first of its kind – where you can learn the essentials of using CALL in your classroom.
Instant Messaging (also IM or Chat) and Chatrooms are a way of sending messages online and having a real-time text conversation. Instant Messaging is usually one-to-one while Chatrooms are usually with large groups of people. For the TEFL teacher, the goal of IM/Chat is to have your students interact with […]
Essentially Illustrate – The Video Dictionary is a dictionary. But it does things slightly differently. After you look up a word you have the option to watch a short animated video. Let’s say you look up the word POUT. You see an explanation and there’s also the option to watch […]
Hot Potatoes is a suite of 6 applications which allow a user to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the internet. The software has recently been made freeware. The suite consists of the following programs: JQuiz (question-based exercises) JCloze (gapfill exercises) JMatch (matching exercises) JMix […]
The chances are that you have a Facebook account and there is more than a fair chance that some of your students do too. But this raises a number of questions and if you get the answer wrong, it can sometimes have dire consequences. Do I become “friends” with my […]