Kaliningrad09 Richardson English Practical

Communication in Englishand Practical Exercises

David RichardsonHögskolan i Kalmar

david.richardson@hik.se

The Plan …

•15-minute presentation slots

•Buzz Groups

•for comments and questions

WhereI work

Welcome to my world!

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Language and Culture

•So … what exactly is language?

•Can you teach or learn a language without any exposure

to the culture(s) which use the language?

Time for a Buzz!

The ‘Components’ of Language

What time is it?

Well … it was raining, wasn’t it.

Wife:

Husband:

Pragmatics in Action

A more scientific example

If you increase the temperature of the mixture to 150°C, a

reaction will occur.

Does this sound reasonable?

“When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other.”

David Hume1737

National Commercial Bank,Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

•Faisal: David, could you come up now, please.

•David: Sure, I’m on my way.

•Faisal: N’shallah.

So what about this one?

If you had increased the temperature of the mixture to 150°C, a reaction would have occurred.

Time for a Buzz!

Boss: “We’ve run out of face masks”

•You:

a)“I’ll order some on Tuesday.”

b)“I’m going to order some on Tuesday.”

c)“I’m ordering some on Tuesday.”

(You work in the Stores.)

Summing Up …

•Language isn’t neutral - even scientific language - but full of cultural assumptions.

•If you’re aware of this, you’ll find it easier to communicate

•- and to understand what happened when communication breaks down!

Time for a Buzz!

Sustainable Education

ICT in Teaching

David RichardsonHögskolan i Kalmar

david.richardson@hik.se

The Plan

•A quick look at (some of the) different systems

•A way of deciding which ones to use

Asynchronous Communication

•Google Docs

•Buzzword

•Jing

•VoiceThread

•Ning

Synchronous Communication

•MS Messenger

•Skype

•Connect Pro

•Second Life

So … with all these choices, how do you decide

which system(s) to use?

Looking for a ‘common technological denominator’

“The irony of the current situation is that the classroom is a broadband environment and can be used to transmit as much information as the senses can absorb. Yet we mainly use it for learning with words which require little bandwidth.”

Tiffin, J & Rajasingham L, In Search of the Virtual Class, London, Routledge, 1995

“For the moment, let us accept that the amount of bandwidth is a measure of the amount of information that can be transmitted at a given time

by a channel …

Bandwidth

f2f VC WWW

Bandwidth in Action: The Cone of Input

A Net-Based Learning Johari Window

Same TimeSame Place

Same TimeDifferent Place

Different TimeSame Place

Different TimeDifferent Place

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tClassroom

ForumPostbox

SkypeConnect

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Any Questions?