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- Deborah Healey, Ph.D.
- Oregon State University
- deborah.healey@oregonstate.edu
- http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/
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- Who’s here?
- Who are your students?
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- Definitions
- Best practices in ESP
- Best practices with computers: Implementing the Seven Principles:
Technology as Lever
- Putting it together
- Putting it into the classroom
- Q&A
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- "best practices"
- Techniques and material designed to optimize learning
- "computer applications"
- Software and Internet resources: email, mailing lists, web sites
- "concordance"
- Display showing the use of a word in several contexts drawn from
authentic material
- "corpora“
- Raw material for the concordance
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- became aware of the potential for
injury through claims by their own
- day would pay about $50 a month for
the wireless service -- about half
- of three-digit phone numbers for
sale at $25,000 apiece. Due to
high
- radio show over the Internet for
the past year, but this week he's
- over the net. "Radio
Technology for Manana" will air around the clock
- clock and showcase the potential for delivering both audio and video
fare
- offer a `lifeline' computer for,
say, $1 a month, or that Microsoft
- be required to give away Word for
Windows." MORE TIES THAT
BIND:
- Novell will write applications for
a Xerox document printing system
- systems. TELEGLOBE GEARS UP FOR LONG-DISTANCE
BATTLE Teleglobe
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- Needs analysis
- Communication or reading orientation
- Discipline-specific content
- Genre-specific writing
- Technical vocabulary
- Sub-technical vocabulary
- Methodology and activities of the underlying discipline
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- Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever by Arthur W.
Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann (slightly adapted)
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- Encourage contacts between learners and teachers/mentors
- Develop reciprocity and cooperation among learners
- Use active learning techniques
- Give prompt feedback
- Emphasize time on task
- Communicate high expectations
- Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
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- Best practices in ESP
- Best practices with computers: the seven principles
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- Email
- With teachers, fellow students, professionals in the field
- Professional mailing lists
- Informal writing in the genre
- Becoming part of the language community
- Teoma and Google Scholar for academic work - formal writing in the genre
- NetMeeting videoconferencing
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- Online discussion
- Project-based learning with realistic or authentic projects
- Webquests
- Team-based activity
- Guided learning – teacher sets the stage
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- Concordancers to explore language
- Online at COBUILD
- Ready-made collocation exercises at better-english.com
- Simulations
- Cameron Balloons Virtual Factory
- Fowler's Physics Applets (with explanations and lecture notes)
- Project-based learning
- Create a company or other Business English projects - Internet-based
Projects for Business English
- Create travel brochures
- Try some science projects - EnergyQuest
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- Data from three corpora:
- British books, ephemera, radio, newspapers, magazines (36m words)
- American books, ephemera and radio (10m words)
- British transcribed speech (10m words)
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- Exercises with immediate feedback
- Simulations with success or failure as feedback
- Communication with peers
- Communication with professionals in the field
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- Teachers search the web and provide a list of links
- Teach web searching techniques
- Collaborative student searches
- Teachers plan
- Project-based learning with elements in place
- Simulations that can be prepared ahead of time
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- Have a real audience for the work
- Online publication – tripod.com, geocities.com, and other sites
- Communication with professionals in the field as partners in a project
- Tandem projects with ESP students in other cities or countries
- IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections)
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- Use multiple media
- Graphics, video, sound
- News sites are useful
- Have individual and collaborative work
- Top-down and bottom-up processing
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- Integrated: students use technology during class time
- Need a lab or single computer
- Need Internet access
- Try it yourself first
- Outside activity: assign as homework
- Better to show it first
- Try it yourself first
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