User talk:Rada Sviridon

Olgashevtsova 08:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)Internet and New Educational Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching.

The first attempts of incorporating Computer technologies into Foreign Language Education began more than forty years ago and in the last decade the number of teachers using Computer Assisted Language Learning has increased markedly. The recent development of the Internet has provoked a big number of academic researches on the most effective ways to integrate successfully this prominent new technology into the language classroom. On entering an information age it has become obvious that the Internet carries great potential for educational use and can play an essential role in Foreign Language Teaching. There are several reasons for this: first of all, Internet Technologies integrated into Foreign Language Education increase learners motivation, provide immediate feedback to students and allow them to study at an individualized pace. Secondly, appropriately implemented, they could contribute significantly to enhanced students achievement providing authentic reading material and strengthening their linguistic skills. Finally, they make it possible for students to act as creators not just receivers of the knowledge and help them feel “citizens of a global classroom”, practicing communication on a global level. Nowadays there is a wide range of on-line applications which are available for use in the foreign language class and outside it. Web-projects or problem-solving projects can be considered as one of the examples of modern educational technologies. S.V.Titova (2003) suggests the following steps of working at Web-projects:  The preliminary choice of a problem or problems;  Putting forward and discussing different hypotheses of solution of the problem;  Accumulation of the material, evaluating it;  The final choice of the problem;  Analysis and critical judgement of the accumulated material;  Presentation the results and class discussion.

Web-projects or problem-solving projects are long-term research tasks which aims are to develop students communicative and thinking skills, help to acquire linguistic and socio-linquistic competences and the result of which is usually a Web publication. As theory and practice suggest implementing modern educational technologies based on Internet technologies could enable learners to practice foreign language skills more thoroughly and solve language learning problems more easily. Besides, technologies provide additional tutoring to those that need more time to master a subject area, create the learning environment that engage large groups of students and support life-long learning.

Skype Chat - group 2
[16:16:54] Purus74 говорит: Yes, I saw the Internet-addresses. [16:17:32] Olga Shevtsova говорит: Are you talking with each other by phone? [16:17:40] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Can we talk all together right now? [16:17:52] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: No, we are using chat [16:18:02] Purus74 говорит: no, I need to change my voice-sound card :( [16:18:05] Olga Shevtsova говорит: I think we can! [16:18:55] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Good, we are discussing our Unit Plan [16:19:21] Olga Shevtsova говорит: I can only chat using Skype TM [16:20:02] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: I want to repeat what we have already said: [16:21:01] Purus74 говорит: I think, that will take the UK, the USA and Ukraine. [16:21:51] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Do you mean only 3 countries for all of us, we are 4 [16:22:05] Olga Shevtsova говорит: It were not only Internet adresses but a variant of ready WQ . I've made it using www.aclresources.net/webquests/create.htmli [16:22:18] Purus74 говорит: What do you think exactly about draft-work of my student? I think, that we can take is as a base for each country. M? [16:22:34] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Right, of course [16:22:49] Purus74 говорит: Thank you, Olga, I'll visit it very soon [16:23:26] Purus74 говорит: Would I make a WQ on three countries at the same time or not? [16:24:00] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Let`s think it over [16:24:13] Olga Shevtsova говорит: I took New Zealand and use our questions, so may be 4 countries [16:24:35] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Perhaps we can take several countries not only one. [16:25:10] Purus74 говорит: ok [16:25:14] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: I already suggested to take Australia, and perhaps Canada [16:26:06] Purus74 говорит: very good idea, Rada! [16:26:26] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: [27.12.2006 16:18:19] Purus74 говорит: Dear Rada! I saw your telephone call, but something is not perfect with my comp [15:43:41] Purus74 говорит: Dear Rada! Are you here? I can't see you! :( [15:45:17] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Yes, I`m trying to call you [15:47:31] Purus74 говорит: I'm sorry, but I can not hear you. But I see you now in Skype-chat [15:48:52] Purus74 говорит: Unfortunately, my sound-card is not perfect. I hope, that will receive your calls from the next week. [15:51:43] Purus74 говорит: Really, I did not hear your voice. Perhaps, you can hear me, but its one-side connection... [15:52:13] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: I`m calling. And I can hear only the rign, you don`t answer [15:54:16] Purus74 говорит: My comp is not perfect with voice-modem. I need to install some new voice-cards [15:55:10] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: You should choose the icon "online" in your name above the picture. Try now, maybe it will work [15:55:22] Purus74 говорит: What about Yana? Would you be so kind to say her e-mail address or Skype-name? [15:56:17] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: I wrote a letter to her providing with all our information, she promised to join our talk today [15:56:46] Purus74 говорит: I can't hear anything... [15:58:48] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: We are not connected to each other, I see that your telephone is blocked [15:59:23] Purus74 говорит: So, what about Skype-chat? I'm sure, that we can't speak by voice-modem today. [15:59:57] Purus74 говорит: I'm at home Internet and have problems with net [16:00:05] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Let`s talk via chat then [16:00:45] Purus74 говорит: It works very slow with the terrible quality [16:01:36] Purus74 говорит: I sent an sms from my mobile to Olga's mobile yesterday. She wrote, that will meet with us today. [16:02:04] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: By the end of this week we are to publish the title of our project and the audience description. It seems everybody agreed with the title "Developing Intercultural Competence through Online Communication". What do you think? [16:02:35] Purus74 говорит: Perfect! Of course, it's very close to our ideas! [16:02:44] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Olga and Yana promised to take part in our chat today [16:02:59] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Perhaps they will be late [16:03:10] * Purus74 добавил Olga Shevtsova к этому чату [16:03:36] Purus74 говорит: Olga, my Dear!!! Nice to see you here!!! [16:07:00] Purus74 говорит: Rada, what about our first steps now? [16:07:39] Purus74 говорит: Olga wrote, that will be with us at 13:30 [16:07:53] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: I think we have to allocate the countries [16:08:23] Purus74 говорит: So, Rada, we need to discuss the most important problems now! [16:09:07] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: We`ll create (or plan) WQs and students in group of 3 or 4 will be studing different issues relating to the countries [16:10:39] Purus74 говорит: O'k. If I understand you correctly, everyone at our Group 2 will create own wq? [16:12:54] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Right, on different countries. The course will be for a group of students of 12-15 and they in small groups can investigate different countries, share their experiences by publishing their findings in the Wiki, edit them and publish final projects in the blogs. [16:14:08] Purus74 говорит: So, my countries are: Ukraine, UK and US? [16:15:16] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: We can creta quite different WQs, some of us can prepare tasks that ask the students to e-mail their peers in foreign countries, or use chats, Skype, etc. In such a way we can integrate various Internet tools in our project [16:26:54] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Sorry, I tryied to copy some ideas for Olga [16:27:50] Purus74 говорит: I need to tell you, that 12, 15-18 I'll be very busy with part-time students and wouldn't speak with you in our chats [16:28:31] Purus74 говорит: So, please, give me a real task, what I need to complete by 19? [16:28:37] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: We can start already to write a draft of our project in the Wiki [16:28:58] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: Or can start write a plan of our WQs [16:29:21] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: also in the Wiki and then bit by bit altogether edit our draft [16:29:39] Purus74 говорит: Please, remind me yours Wikis. It's easy to my students to use Wiki. I'm sure [16:30:13] Свиридон Радость Ана... говорит: I`ll send my address by e-mail, I have to look for it [16:31:05] Purus74 говорит: My Wiki is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Purus74 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.239.175.11 (talk) 16:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC).
 * Olga Shevtsova добавил Свиридон Радость Анатольевна к этому чату16:16:23