A Journey To ELT

Hello everyone, In this post, I’ll share my experiences about creating a digital storytelling. First, What’s digital storytelling? It is a short story created by combining a recorded narrative with images, animation, video, text and music or other sounds.       For our Technology and Material Design course project, we were supposed to create a digital story with a partner. Azra and I decided to create a fictional story and also we wanted that this project includes some teaching purpose. So, we decided to create a story which  appeals to young learners and we came up with lots of ideas but we didn’t know how to do it. After searching for hours, we decided to use Animaker for this project because we thought animation can be more attractive for young learners.     We chose the characters that fits our story in the Animaker but this program requires upgrade for some parts and this limitated us from some aspects. We designed...

Hello everyone,    In this post, I want to introduce you a mobile app,    ABA English. ABA English is like a academy where students learn English with a learning approach that inspired by the natural method. It consist of learning through total language immersion. That way, first students listen and comprehend and then they start to naturally speak and write. How it works? When you login your account, you choose your course level. Then you’ll see a menu which consists of a lot of units from easy to difficult. After you choose the unit that you want to learn or you can progress step by step, you’ll see categories. step 1 Step 2 step 3   First, you should watch the ABA film , then you should study the dialogues. In the speak section, you’ll listen a sentence and repeat it by recording your voice. Then, you can compare your pronunciation with the true one and you can correct yourself. In the writing section, you’ll listen...

Hi Everyone,   This week, I have evaluated Dave’s ESL Cafe for our assignment. This website is related to teaching and learning English. On its home page you can see the purpose of this website in this motto “The Internet’s Meeting place for ESL+ EFL Teachers + students from around the world”. So, it is a good place to get together with teachers and students. The website, which has been in existence since 1995, has slowly grown to be one of the largest resources for ELT. As you can see from the name and it also writes on the website, it is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling who has a BA in Psychology from Pepperdine University, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from California State University. You can reach more detailed information about Dave on website or from interviews.   The home page includes general listing, a drop down menu and at the bottom of the page you can see when the site has last been updated, 2017. The website consists of stuff for teac...