LAMS IN TESOL: SKETCHING POTENTIAL

• Authors: Chris Alexander
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper aims to provide some initial ideas on how LAMS might be utilised in TESOL . Even though this research area requires significant development, it is held that there is growing potential and justification to use LAMS in TESOL. To this end an attempt will be made to illustrate how LAMS, with its increasing number of authoring tools (http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/Home), could be used (or might be developed to be used) to create sequences that addressed language learning skills in the following six key interrelated areas: vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening speaking and writing. It is maintained that a pre-while-post sequence could be one way of providing a foundation structure learning-design template on which teachers might draw on their experience to build sequences for the practice of these language skills. Although the creation of a more specialised TESOL authoring tool would assist in the construction of non-Internet dependent and LAMS-gradable sequences, it is held that TESOL sequences can still be authored with many of the existing tools.

Keywords

EN

TESOL; LAMS

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 50-72

Contributors

author

Chris Alexander

• Languages Department, School of Humanities The University of Nicosia, Cyprus

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