add some project-making task : ability to create their own video Q-A-Criticism booths for their friends/other students, then to get extra marks from the teacher
by zümrüt çimeli
Include rubrics for each project
by Josh Hooper
I'm a big fan of projects, but I don't see how an ebook would make the experience better or worse.
Links and descriptions for students where they can find self-study material on the net, online dictionaries, picture dictionaries, and other resources such as peer-to-peer sites where they can meet native speakers (ie. Busuu, Second Life, Live Mocha etc.)
by Heike Philp
There are rich sources on the net to which the students can be introduced to through a digital ES...more
Agree, provided that links that changed or became obsolete could be edited out or removed.
You wouldn't need things like live mocha because they could be built in to the book so you networ...more
Graded tasks and a "journey" to complete , e.g to move to level 2 students have to do all level 1 tasks correctly, and the same to pass to level 3, like a videogamemo
by Daniela Tomatis
This a a dream I've had for many years. if only we could. I don't think traditional EFL publisher...more
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Dont ya think that could be discouraging when one had mistakes as few as,lets say, one ! ? why no...more
An embedded semi-bilingual, learner's dictionary. This dictionary would only contain entries for content words found elsewhere in the coursebook. Whenever and wherever learners encounter an unfamiliar word they can look it up simply by clicking on it (i.e. hypertext, as in Kindle). Going one step...more
A combination of digital and hard copy of book would enable LD students to access text assist programs to hear the text, enter text into academic word list tools and for teachers to screen a page on overhead projector
Pronunciation training that goes beyond simple shadowing and actually analyzes your speech (audio analysis, and perhaps even camera-based analysis of mouth movements), and gives you interactive feedback to correct problems.
I would like to see publishers offering chunks of content or learning objects using a common standard so that teachers or students could use a coursebook app to select content from a range of publishers to create their own coursebooks for their students.
Follow best practices adding tech where appropriate, but don't get carried away and let the tech take over. Our students are there to communicate with other human beings and they should be the focus of our lessons
