APLING678 Week 3 - Listening & Speaking
From Theory to Practice: Getting Started with Listening and Speaking Guiding Questions: What are the skills needed to listen and speak in a second language? How can digital technologies facilitate the development of listening and speaking skills? How different is real-life listening and speaking tasks compared to technology-mediated ones? What implications and considerations should teachers think of if they want to incorporate technology-mediated listening and speaking tasks? Readings: Complete the following readings: Text : Walker & White (2013) Chapter 3 e-Reserves : Robin (2011) Chapter 4 in Arnold & Ducate (eds.) Weblink : Educational uses of digital storytelling (University of Houston, College of Education) http :// digitalstorytelling . coe .uh. edu /index. cfm (Read the section on About Digital Story Telling and watch some examples of your choice. The title "I read banned books" will be available with closed-captionin...