Every 2 months is a chance for #AusELTers to get together on Twitter for a chat about something related to teaching and learning in our context. We’re due for one this Sunday at 8.30pm AEST – click here to see the time where you are.
Here are some of the things we’ve been talking about recently. Please vote on what you’d be most interested in discussing on Sunday!
Please get in touch if you would like to get involved but aren’t sure how to use Twitter. See our quick guide here.
This chat has been held – read through the chat transcript here.
To kick off the new year, we shared what we’ve learned and continue to learn from students. These were the questions posed during the chat:
A simple topic, but powerful.
This chat has been held – read through the chat transcript here.
New to #AusELT? New to Twitter? If you’re not sure what to do, get in touch with any of the #AusELT admin team on Facebook or Twitter (eg @SophiaKhan4) or by leaving a comment below. Here are some posts that should also help you get started:
· #AusELT 1-page guide to Twitter
· So you have a Twitter account – now what? (from Cult of Pedagogy)
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Our students have travelled a long way to find themselves in our language classrooms. Uncomfortable or alone, they sign up with a friend, or quickly identify and sit with a peer with the same culture and language background. They’re able to help each other navigate life and study and getting by in a strange land, and why not. This is a good thing.
However, our students have travelled a long way also because they need or want to make a life over here for a period of time. They want to feel like they can really get to know this place and make it their own, in some ways at least.
But the networks they establish at language institutions and in own-language communities often work against this goal. They provide solidarity and familiarity – but they don’t help make that leap to owning this new context and becoming participating members of the new language community that surrounds them.
For the last #AusELT Twitter chat of 2019 we’ll be swapping ideas on engaging learners outside the classroom, and hopefully going a step further than “just a bit of homework”.
Come and share your ideas on Sunday 4th Nov at 8.30pm AEDT. Click here to see the time where you are.
As you’re still up, just a little bit of reading to whet your appetite:
Chappell, P., Benson, P. Yates, L. (2017). ELICOS students’ out-of-class learning experiences: An action research agenda. English Australia Journal 33(2), 43-48. Retrieved from: https://bit.ly/2RwtgO2
Wilson, S. (2018). The Rejection Project. An action research project encouraging student interaction outside the classroom. English Australia Journal 34(1), 22-40. Retrieved from eajournal.realviewdigital.com/?iid=161637#folio=28
UQ-ICTE Teachers, Ceara McManus and Henno Kotzé from #UQICTE shared their findings on connecting learners to the local campus community via https://t.co/DM2HHfDIka #EAConf18 pic.twitter.com/9FYnEkt2Je
— Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (@ICTEUQ) September 21, 2018
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This chat has now taken place. Please see the record of the chat, with additional links, here.
It’s often like a lot of pebbles dropped into the PD pond, where the ripples soon disappear.
You go to the conference / PD event / catch-up, and it’s a whirlwind of new ideas and re-found ones, of strategies to explore and links to follow up, of contacts made and connections strengthened. You come back exhausted and yes, you will make the time to reflect and to go back over notes and to sort the photos… after a little lie-down.
You catch a great webinar and for a change it’s a time for you to absorb rather than being the one feeding others, and the mobile is switched off for this lovely hour all to yourself. Then just as you leave at the end, there’s a knock at your door.
One way to keep up the momentum is to sit down with us for a Twitter chat. Come join us Sunday 7 Oct 2018 8.30pm-9.30pm. Bring your picnic hamper of ideas, strategies, links, readings, questions, and possibilities.
Please note daylight saving starts this weekend in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, the Northern Territory and New South Wales. Check times elsewhere in the world
Looking forward to talking with you, #AusELT
See also:
#AusELT Twitter chat – Conference/PD Swap Shop – Sunday 1st October 2017
Conference and Networking Tips – A summary of the #AusELT Twitter chats in July & August 2017
Getting the most out of a conference – #AusELT Twitter chat, 2nd July 2017
Networking for Success – #AusELT Twitter chat, 6th Aug 2017
Conferences & Presenting – #AusELT Twitter chat, 3-4 Sept 2016
Conference/PD Swap Shop – #AusELT Twitter chat, 2nd October 2016
#AusELT chat summary: Conference Swapshop (9/10/14)
PS…
New to #AusELT? New to Twitter?
If you’re not sure what to do, get in touch with any of the #AusELT admin team on Facebook or Twitter (eg @Clare_M_ELT and @SophiaKhan4).
Here are some posts that should also help you get started:
· #AusELT 1-page guide to Twitter
· So you have a Twitter account – now what? (from Cult of Pedagogy)
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Our #AusELT Twitter chat on Sunday September 9th will be in the ‘slowburn’ format This means instead of the usual 1-hour format, we are spreading out over a whole 12 hours, starting at 10am Sydney time and ‘officially’ closing at 10pm. During that time, we will be posting discussion questions on the hour so feel free to come and join the discussion. If you are new to using Twitter or have a Twitter account but find regular chats a bit intimidating because of their pace, this is an ideal way to get involved without the usual time pressure.
For this chat, we will be heading into the area of educational futurism and looking at the notion of AI (artificial intelligence) in the classroom. We will springboard off the article that was posted in the Facebook group last week about AI replacing teachers (and that has been reposted below along with links to a couple of other recent articles on the topic). For years, people have been predicting a time when the presence of a human teacher will become unnecessary in our classrooms. In the chat we will look at the current developments in and use of AI in education and consider just how long it might be before our jobs are genuinely at risk.
For any help with Twitter, please visit the dedicated page on this blog.
https://thejournal.com/articles/2018/08/29/the-promise-of-ai-for-education.aspx
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This #AusELT Twitter chat was held on Sunday 1st July – read the transcript here .
There seems to be a lot of discussion around about Extensive Reading, but not as much about Extensive Listening. The idea for this topic came from a recent podcast. Read on for more information, and links to some other background information on Extensive Listening that might be of interest and to get you thinking before the chat on Sunday.
In a recent episode of the We Teach Languages podcast, Beniko Mason talked about her Story Listening and Efficient Acquisition. ‘Efficiency’ is key for her, and her slogan is “Reduce suffering!”, meaning for the students, but when you learn more about the approach, you might agree it relates to teachers as well. Beniko Mason is trying to change that, and along with Stephen Krashen, has been conducting research and workshops on this approach to developing. Check out the podcast show notes to find links to her publications and current projects. A lot of the material there is focused on teaching young learners, but our discussion would be around how to use a similar approach, an Extensive Listening approach in our classrooms.
The Extensive Reading Central website has a section devoted to Extensive Listening, covering aspects such as:
Rob Waring also has an Extensive Listening section on his website.
These two papers by Willy A Renandya might be of interest:
This one is aimed at adult literacy teachers, but is a good addition to our discussion: Audiobooks for Adult Literacy? It’s Not a Myth!
This #AusELT Twitter chat was held on Sunday 1st July – read the transcript here .
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This was the topic for our Twitter chat on Sunday 3rd June. Read the transcript of the chat here.
As voted by our members, the topic for this chat was:
Teaching Speaking: speaking sub-skills, types of speaking, how to give effective feedback, meaningful communicative practice, beyond the classroom.
We’ve seen a few posts on ‘Speaking’ recently on the #AusELT Facebook group, plus it was the theme of recent Sydney MeetELT. so we thought it might be a popular topic to take to our Twitter chat. These are some of the topics we thought the chat could focus on:
This chat has already been held. Read the transcript of the chat here.
For those new to Twitter chats, these posts should get you started:
If you are not sure about Twitter and need a hand to get started, do message Lesley on Facebook or Twitter (@cioccas) or by leaving a comment below.
Heads up for those who voted for the other topic, we’ll be discussing Extensive Listening: auditory comprehensible input for effective, and efficient, language acquisition as the topic for the next Twitter chat on Sunday 1st July.
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