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Transferability of skills AusELT Twitter chat 2 June 2019 8.30pm AEST

Fancy joining us for a bit of a chat tonight?

Check the time in your zone here.

UPDATE This chat has taken place – read the record here – but will not doubt continue elsewhere.

There are a number of higher education institutions working with ELT trainers and teachers building capacity of educators working with international and domestic students in non-ELT disciplines here. So, this topic seems one worth exploring.

These chats can take off in any direction but here are some questions that may be thrown into the mix to get you thinking.

What skills did you bring with you when you began in ELT?
Which ones have you developed along the way?
What are the strategies and skills which ELTs generally need and use?
What are some examples of these needed and used in another teaching context (non-ELT, higher education or otherwise)?
Which of these are transferable to teaching in other subjects / disciplines (non-ELT, higher education or otherwise)?
How could this transfer of strategies and skills be facilitated?
How about the skills and strategies you’ve acquired through connections with non-ELT teachers and academics?
What’s happening in PD at your place re developing skills and strategies (as opposed to building awareness of content knowledge)?

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 and @Clare_M_ELT) or by leaving a comment below. Here are some posts that should also help you get started:

Photo and post by @Clare_M_ELT

What would you like to talk about on April 7th?

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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.

Learning from our students #AusELT Twitter chat Sunday 3 Feb 2019

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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:

What have you learned?
How did this come about?
What impact did this have?
Did you share it with anyone else?
What’s the best way to record such experiences?
How do we keep building on these insights?
How can we open up more opportunities to learn from our students?

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:

· Need help with Twitter?`

· #AusELT 1-page guide to Twitter

· So you have a Twitter account – now what? (from Cult of Pedagogy)

Photo and post by @Clare_M_ELT (edited and tanscript added by @cioccas)

Not “just a bit of homework” – Engaging learners outside the classroom (#AusELT Twitter chat 4/11/18)

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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”.

Can you think of ways you have helped your learners engage with the wider local community?
What fears and obstacles might learners have around this, and how could we allay them?
What initiatives or activities have you found that genuinely spark learners’ passion for exploring the world through the medium of English?

Come and share your ideas on Sunday 4^th 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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Keeping the momentum going AusELT Twitter Chat Sunday 7 Oct 2018 8.30pm AEDT

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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

Image EAConf2018 clare.p.mcgrath@gmail.com

AI in the classroom – #AusELT ‘slowburn’ Twitter Chat – 9 September 2018

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Our #AusELT Twitter chat on Sunday September 9^th 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

https://www.livemint.com/AI/lqVPJwrICdNQWQqXGXZpzJ/How-artificial-intelligence-is-making-the-education-system-m.html

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Extensive Listening – AusELT Twitter chat, 1st July 2018

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This #AusELT Twitter chat was held on Sunday 1st July – read the transcript here .

Extensive Listening: auditory comprehensible input

for effective, and efficient, language acquisition

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:

What is Extensive Listening?
How to do Extensive Listening
Types of Extensive Listening materials
EL Resources, Links and Research

Rob Waring also has an Extensive Listening section on his website.

These two papers by Willy A Renandya might be of interest:

Materials and Methods for Extensive Listening (2012)
Extensive listening in the language classroom (2011)

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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