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How to become a (more) successful language learner
Presented By Ene Peterson
Session Details
Learning a foreign language comes "naturally" for some students, with great difficulty for others. At tertiary level students are expected to be independent, self-motivated, etc. But is it always like that?
This workshop will focus on helping students discover their personal resources, identify their skills. We offer practical ideas and activities how to combine aspects of online and face-to-face instruction.
About Ene Peterson
I work at Virumaa College of Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia). I am MA in Educational Science, head of the division of Humanities and Social Sciences, lecturer of General English and ESP (Computer Science, Construction Engineering, Production Engineering and Entrepreneurship). First and foremost I am responsible for the organisation of teaching foreign languages (English, German, Russian) and Estonian as a second language. We have at our disposal language teachers` resource centre. We provide library, counselling and information service for students and language teachers of the region. We organise in- house language courses for staff members and seminars, workshops and courses for language teachers all over Estonia. I have been a teacher trainer since 1993. My favourite topics are: using portfolio as a means of alternative assessment, teaching process writing and implementing ICT in language learning.
Support Material
Submitted by Elena on Fri,
Submitted by Elena on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 09:06.
Dear Ene,
We are English teahers at Krasnoyarsk State Teacher Training University and Krasnoyarsk Gymnasia "Univers" № 1 in Russia. We are trying to make and implement a project on Using the Internet for Developing Writing Skills. For this purpose we organised communication of our students with English-speaking mates via email. In their letters they discussed such topics as Free time and Cities. As a result, they received letters, photos and made presentations to their classmates. After the presentation, the volunteers decided to continue their email communication and also inspired their friends to participate in this process. The results have shown that the students became more motivated and overcame the hardships of writing coherent sentences and paragraphs. Therefore, we agree with you that Information Technologies can help students to become a successful language learner.
Yours sincerely,
Elena and Albina