Diapositiva 1

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Chacao Municipality and British Council Project
CALL- Computer Assisted Language Learning
Caracas,Venezuela
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Chacao
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Municipality Schools of Chacao

• Andrés Bello
• 893 students from Preschool until 9th grade

• Juan de Dios Guanche
• 681 students from Preschool until 9th grade

• Carlos Soublette
• 212 students from Preschool until 6th
  grade

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Pilot Proyect 2005-2006
Training period 12 hours
(theory and practice) Tutoring and using learned
skills in the school lab (one term) Teachers
involved 2 from two municipality
schools Grades 6th and 9th
Phase I
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CALL Proyect 2006-2007
Phase II
STAGES Training period 16 hours (theory and
practice) Tutoring and using learned skills in
the school lab (one term) Teachers involved 8
from three municipality schools Grades
4th,5th,6th and 7th
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Stage 1 Training

• Teachers attended a workshop in December 2006, to
  become familiar with ICT and the planning and
  designing of the web-based lesson
• Teachers attended a second workshop to learn how
  to use Hot Potatoes (an authoring tool) and how
  to set up a blog account and start designing
  their lessons to be used by their students in the
  lab
• Each teacher was assigned a tutor to help them
  either on-line or face-to-face to plan, design
  and apply the web-based lessons in the lab

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Stage 2 Tutoring and using learned skills in the
school lab

• Tutors contacted teachers to start planning the
  web-based lessons. Some meetings took place in
  the schools where the teachers work or at the
  British Council.
• After the first meeting, tutors planned the day
  they were going to observe the teachers using
  their web-based lessons in the lab.
• Teachers were asked to upload lesson plans and
  lab reports to the ICT CHACAO (Yahoo) group

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Principal Difficulties

• The need for more time using the laboratories for
  the English classes
• The English teachers work in the schools as part
  time-teachers. It is neccesary for them to be
  full time
• The teachers have to receive more training in the
  use of technology
• It is neccesary to have a Coordinator of the
  Program in the schools.

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MAIN SUCCESS

• - Teachers that participated  in the Project
  were satisfied with the method. They want to
  continue using CALL".
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• - Students discovered a new method and a fun way
  to learn English. They enjoyed it and are very
  motivated
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• Principals are more involved in the Program and
  will be more enthusiastic, giving support to the
  teachers

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Perspectives of the Program
Following the success of the Program, it is
proposed to continue the agreement between the
British Council and the Chacao Municipality.
The aims of future are
1 To consolidate the achievements of Phases 1 and
2 in terms of the pupils motivation
towards learning English 2 To extend the
techniques and activities developed in the first
two phases to more English teachers and
learners at municipal schools 3 To try out new
techniques and activities related to Computer
Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
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4 It is hoped to eventually establish the use of
the computer laboratory as a
regular timetabled component in the English
classes at municipal schools. In addition every
effort will be made to relate the content of the
CALL classes to the other topics covered in the
subjects of the official syllabus.
5. The British Council could provide CALL
training to the municipal school English teachers
involved in the project, and provide support to
these teachers throughout the next school year
in terms of the design, implementation and
evaluation of activities.
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Comments from the Students
The class is great, but I have to practise more
the verbs (Maria Páez)
We enjoyed it it was a very funny class
(Minerva Noble)
9th Juan de Dios Guanche
I liked this english class I want lo learn all
that I havent studied (Derbys Pereira)
For me and my partner it was fun we shared all
what we learned in the class today (Ana Nimo)