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ICT in EAPPete Sharma

Teacher Trainer

Book Reviewer

Director EAP Lecturer ELT Author

Consultant

ICT in EAP

www.ictineap.com

What?Practical ideasQuestions

Part one: what?

• Academic vocabulary

• Listening to lectures

• Giving presentations

• Reading critically

What is EAP?

Writing

• References and citation

• Academic style – formal

• Academic caution

• Essay formats

ESAP

• Discipline specific

• Law

• Business studies

• Engineerings

• etc

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Part two: Practical ideas

•Grammar

•Vocabulary

•Listening & speaking

•Reading & writing

•Pronunciation

•EAP

Grammar

Practical English Usage [OUP] English Grammar in Use [CUP]

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A1, A2, B1, B2 (CEFR)

Oxford3000™ S1 / W3 ◊◊◊◊◊◊No diamond

Vocabulary

Red *** 2,500

Red** 5,000

Red* ………..

Black all other

Word frequency

What frequency do the following words have?

Frame

Fracture

Nomination

Nod

Rob

Red ***

Red**

Red*

Black

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Productive Receptive

Knowing

a word

meaning

use

pronunciation

spelling

class/ form

connotation

collocations

register

etymology synonym / antonym

AWL Highlighter Vocabulary

Quizlet

Vocabulary

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Oxford Learner’s Dictionary for Academic English

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Online concordanceDDL = Data driven learning

http://www.lextutor.ca/conc/multi/

Listening

iTunes-USpeaking

Socrative

www.prezi.com

Speaking Voice recognition

Siri

Google voice search

Voice to text

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Reading

Macmillan

Meaning on demand

Writing

wikispaces

iWriter

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary OUP

Sonocent

Note-taking Pronunciation

Sounds (Macmillan)

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Collins

EAP

Same time same place

Same time different

place

Different time

different place

Same place

different time

Synchronous

Asynchronous

Virtual Learning Environments

Chat

Bulletin board / forum / thread

Courses supported by VLE

Pre

• Shy learners access topic

While

• Washback– learner training

Post

• Handouts posted to the server

Repository – quiz – timed access – communication tools – wiki – assignments etc.

A VLE typically consists of a CMS (Content Management System) and an LMS (Learning Management System). The CMS is the bank of learning materials on the VLE, from individual questions through to complete courses for learners. The LMS keeps a recordof the learners who are enrolled on courses, their scores and their progress.

VLEs

“The platform is free to download. It’s ‘open source’, which means the code is freely available to developers. Like other platforms, I can upload text, audio, images and video, even the interactive exercises”

Edmodo

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Referencing software

Turnitin Dropbox OU English: skills for learning

Free course

Giving feedback

iAnnotate

Collaborative work using Google Docs