Il CILTA – Centro Interfacoltà di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata “L. Heilmann” – organizza per il prossimo mese di Giugno 2006 un Corso per insegnanti di lingua straniera dal titolo: “ICT as an instrument for foreign language teaching: methodologies and practical application”
L’iniziativa che è stata inserita nel database europeo qui con il codice IT-2006-073.
Gli insegnanti europei, ma non italiani, interessati al Corso potranno ottenere una borsa per la copertura delle spese di iscrizione, vitto ed alloggio, fino ad un massimo di 1.500 euro.
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ICT as an instrument for foreign language teaching: methodologies and practical application”
Cilta is proposing for the Summer 2006 an advanced in-training course focusing on the international context of didactical Web technologies and aimed at providing teachers instruments and tools for the acquisition of an autonomous role within the teaching-learning process, and in particular within the process of courseware production. With this objective, during the Course students will be asked to create their own teaching project: the multimedia content produced by the trainees will be collected on individual Web sites for a presentation to the class.
The structure of the Course, developed over a two week period, will allow a more theoretical approach during the first week and a more practical approach during the second week: after an introduction focusing on the ICT issues related to language teaching, and after an in-depth analysis of methodological and technical aspects related to the use of media, the module will offer lab activities and teaching practice
PROGRAMME
June 19th – June 30th
1st day – Monday
9.00 – Welcome greeting at CILTA. Introduction to the Course, presentation of the participants and discussion of their expectations based upon collection of online questionnaires.
– A “getting-to-know-you” session: pair or group discussion of one or two statements on methodology.
– Showtime: FIRST school video clips, ALTAIR tests video clips. Feedback.
11.00 Coffee Break.
11.30 Theoretical background, bibliographical reference. Distribution of course material.
– What does Web technology offer the language teacher: an overview and online demo’s. Web content – web services – server and client – database technology.
2nd day – Tuesday
9.00 – “On-line resources for the development of lexical skills: lexical skills: dictionaries and concordance programs”.
11.00 Coffee Break.
11.30 – “The implementation of multimedia in teaching”. Internet in Class: practical, technological and methodological problems. Objectives and pedagogical strategies.
3rd day – Wednesday
9.00 – Songs in Teaching and Learning English: a Multimedia Approach”. Where learning approaches acquisition: songs and computers in the classroom.
11.00 Coffee Break.
11.30 – “Digital Rights issues”: educational licences and Creative Commons.
4th day – Thursday
9.00 – ”Basic notions for the production and the use of audio resources on the Internet”.
– Audio; digitalization; compression; audio, player and plug-in formats; streaming.
– The acquisition of audio signals and conversion into numeric formats; most important audio formats, Compression, Players and Plug-ins.
11.00 Coffee break.
11.30 – Streaming, Media production tools, Examples of Quicktime media production.
On Thursday afternoon, the lab and a tutor will be available from 15 to 17.30 for trainees
5th day – Friday
9.00 – “The development and integration of audio resources for multimedia language learning on-line”. Audio editing and media production; multimedia and interactivity; creating and disseminating listening activities on the web: context, motivation, selection of resources.
11.00 Coffee break.
11.30 – Captioning and transcription software.
– Practical session with audio editing and media production.
– Demo and problem-solving session.
On Friday afternoon, the lab and a tutor will be available from 15 to 17.30 for trainees
6th day – Saturday
Guided tour; cultural itinerary.
7th day – Sunday
Free day.
8th day – Monday
9.00/13.00 – Introduction to CILTA tutors.
– Presentation of CILTA’s multimedia projects and technological tools for students: ALTAIR, Webclass, ProjectPad…
– Questions, doubts, group feedback session, etc…
9th day – Tuesday
9.00/13.00 – Identification of a common project: A Web site integrating multimedia resources; Selection of an individual project; Division of participants into working groups; Identification of a tutor for each working group.
– Media retrieval from copyright-free (copyleft) sites.
– Digital media and personal creativity.
– Sources of audio materials for language teaching. Autonomous media production: tools and skills.
10th day – Wednesday
9.00/13.00 – The day will be dedicated to the realization of a presentation and to the autonomous elaboration of the materials.
– Free practice in the labs, with the presence and assistance of a CILTA tutor, with the teaching material introduced during the Course.
11th day – Thursday
9.00/13.00 – Improvement and conclusion of individually produced materials.
– Opening of the presentation of the single projects: Groups A and B.
12th day – Friday
9.00/13.00 – Class presentation of the single projects realized during the Course: Groups B and C.
– Critical evaluation of the Course.
– Goodbyes.
SOCIAL LUNCH
Eleonora Panto
Dario Zucchini