Computers in ELT

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Online reading involves:

•hypermedia literacy

(Kasper 2002)

•use of resource-assisted environment

(active dictionaries, glossing text,
hyperlinking
text to corpora)

(Krajka 2007)

Online reading promotes:

•active learning

•contextual learning

(Krajka 2007)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Types of online reading materials:

•searchable online literature collections

(Project Gutenberg, Bibliomania)

•ESL/EFL websites

(Flo-Joe at flo-joe.co.uk)

•interactive practice tests online

(TOEFL, CAE,

CPE)

•online newspapers (e-papers)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

E-papers can be accessed through:

•newspaper sites
•search engines
•online directories
•newspaper portals (onlinenewspapers.com;

newseum.org)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

E-papers can be accessed through
(cont.):

•topic-based search services

(MetaNews

Search)

•news management services

(crayon.net)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Pre-reading tasks

•thematic fieldtrips
•vocabulary pre-teaching /brainstorming

(online reference tools, e.g. visualthesaurus.com)

•guided treasure hunts

(MetaNews Search)

•news management services

(crayon.net)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

While-reading tasks (virtues):

•use of web concordancers

(hypertextextbuilder.com)

•glossing text

(adding annotations, inserting

voice comments, synonyms/antonyms, audio

prompts, images)

•active dictionary makers

(lookwayup.com;

voycabulary.com; Dictomaker)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Post-reading tasks:

•activating vocabulary (production)
•consolidating knowledge
•providing grammar/vocabulary instruction

(text

as a model)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Post-reading tasks:

• webquest (Dodge 1995; 2000)
• ask-an-expert task
• concordancing
• private websites (production)
• blogs (production, interaction, skills integration)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Web-based reading tasks:

• online reading followed by quiz
• transferring online info into a chart
• reading instructions online & performing in class

(Windeatt et al. 2000)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Web-based reading tasks:

• following instructions (setting up email account)
• scanning websites
• comparing & contrasting info
• reading for detail

(Gitsaki & Taylor 2000)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

Web-based reading tasks:

• online games and quizzes
• reading/making questionnaires
• reading online to summarise to whole class
• reading content and take a decision on it

(Dudeney 2000)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing reading skills
through ICT

(bibliography)

Dodge, B. (1995) Some Thoughts about Webquests [online][cited 12 August 2006]

Access:

http://webquest.sdse.edu/about-webquests.html

Dodge, B. (2000) The Webquest Page [online][cited 12 August 2006] Access:

http://webquest.sdse.edu/webquest/webquest.html

Dudeney (2000) The Internet and the Language Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Gitsaki, Ch. & Taylor, R.P. (2000) Internet English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kasper (2002) Building Literacy in the Age of Information: Technology as a Tool for

Sustained

Content Study. The Reading Matrix, 2 (2). [online] Access:

http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/kasper/

Krajka, J. (2007) English Language Teaching in the Internet-Assisted Environment.

Lublin: Marie Curie-Skłodowska University Press.

Windeatt, S. Hardisty, D. & Eastment, D. (2000) The Internet. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

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