Do your English students spend more time looking at their phones than studying?
In this book, you'll learn how to turn phone gazing into learning.
With the rise of smartphones and tablets, WiFi and 4G, text chat has become a common form of daily communication for many around the world. By bringing it into our language classes we can provide our learners with real world practice, giving them the skills they need to communicate in today's tech-influenced society. And the benefits don't end there.
In this book, I discuss the advantages of using text chat with language learners and how teachers can integrate it into their courses. I have also included a range of text chat tasks for use in pairs or small groups. Adapted from traditional communicative activities, and utilising a range of technology and media, these tasks are an engaging and fun way for learners to practice their language in a text chat environment. Each task comes with clear instructions for teachers and students.
Although primarily aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language, teachers of other languages can also reap the benefits of text chat practice by adapting activities to suit their learners' needs.
Text Chat Activities earned the following praise from ELT print and online reviews :
"a book that is chock-full of fun communication exercises that leverage what students like to do: chatting on phones and computers." BAANAJARN November 2015
"All in all a nice new resource for teachers." IATEFL VOICES August 2016
"It's a niche book, but it's well worth a look." IH JOURNAL July 2016
"(it) offers an invaluable focus on the educational use of smartphones in the language classroom." EFL MAGAZINE September 2016
Check it out on Amazon or Amazon UK or Goodreads.
In this book, you'll learn how to turn phone gazing into learning.
With the rise of smartphones and tablets, WiFi and 4G, text chat has become a common form of daily communication for many around the world. By bringing it into our language classes we can provide our learners with real world practice, giving them the skills they need to communicate in today's tech-influenced society. And the benefits don't end there.
In this book, I discuss the advantages of using text chat with language learners and how teachers can integrate it into their courses. I have also included a range of text chat tasks for use in pairs or small groups. Adapted from traditional communicative activities, and utilising a range of technology and media, these tasks are an engaging and fun way for learners to practice their language in a text chat environment. Each task comes with clear instructions for teachers and students.
Although primarily aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language, teachers of other languages can also reap the benefits of text chat practice by adapting activities to suit their learners' needs.
Text Chat Activities earned the following praise from ELT print and online reviews :
"a book that is chock-full of fun communication exercises that leverage what students like to do: chatting on phones and computers." BAANAJARN November 2015
"All in all a nice new resource for teachers." IATEFL VOICES August 2016
"It's a niche book, but it's well worth a look." IH JOURNAL July 2016
"(it) offers an invaluable focus on the educational use of smartphones in the language classroom." EFL MAGAZINE September 2016
Check it out on Amazon or Amazon UK or Goodreads.
And here is what some readers had to say on Amazon and Goodreads:
"This book is a fresh breath of air amidst so many (partially outdated) English language books."
"This book is chock-full of fun communication exercises that leverage what students like to do: chatting on phones and computers."
"The book gives you ideas and inspiration for more unusual activities fit for this and the next generation of English Language learners. I loved it!"
Below, I have added links to two webinars I have given on the use of text chat activities in language teaching and learning.
"This book is a fresh breath of air amidst so many (partially outdated) English language books."
"This book is chock-full of fun communication exercises that leverage what students like to do: chatting on phones and computers."
"The book gives you ideas and inspiration for more unusual activities fit for this and the next generation of English Language learners. I loved it!"
Below, I have added links to two webinars I have given on the use of text chat activities in language teaching and learning.
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In the British Council Teach English talk linked below, I look at the benefits of using text chat for learning English.
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/mark-oliver-text-chat-classroom |
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