Blended Learning: The Optimal Link in ESL

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Blended Learning The Optimal Link in ESL
Restructuring Courses in the Information Age

• Instructor/Designer Li-Lee Tunceren
• St. Petersburg Junior College
• Clearwater, Florida

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Blended Learning
Classroom
Computer Lab
Cyber space
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Blended Learning Linking Tradition and
Technology

• Synchronous learning
• Face-to-face contact
• Teacher centered
• Memorization/mastery
• Class discussion
• Text-based content
• Linear sequencing
• Completion

• Log on anytime 24/7
• Online forum/email
• T designer/guide
• Exploration/discovery
• Bulletin board
• Web-based network
• Branched learning
• Life-long learning

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Designing a Web-Based ESL Course
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Continual Design/Improvement
Observe
Implement
Design
Student Feedback
Goals Objectives
Formative Evaluation
Revision
Reflection
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Blended Learning in Advanced ESL

• 10 contact hours/week
• Textbooks
• Novels
• Summaries/Reactions
• Essay Writing
• Objective tests
• Written responses
• Exit Exams

• Unlimited contact
• Online readings
• Online help/analysis
• Discussion board
• Publishing on the Web
• WebCT quizzes
• Email
• Online support

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Student Feedback - Spring 2001
- Is very important having weekly assignments I
can do it any time in any place on any computer.
- I can review easily all the things that I
feel weak.
- People who are not familiar with computers
have to study and get to know something about it.
- Most benefit is possibility to check my
answers and take quizzes again.
- It is not limited just to the hours in school.
- I see that my English is getting better. I
can also see that Im getting better in using
the Internet. So I like it.
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Student Concerns/Issues to Consider

• I dont like writing in the bulletin that
  everyone is going to read what you say.
• I need more discussion and pronouncing English
  practice.
• If two students do quiz together, only one gets
  the score.
• In class computers are very slow and need
  maintenance.
• It is confused and sometimes spend too much time.
  Really I prefer just doing regular
  class, its simple and more clear.
• Sometimes when we read long article, like 3 or 4
  pages long, my eyes always feel sour in the
  middle of reading.

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Lets collaborate!

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• eslguest
• Password
• esl0081clti
• Advanced ESL
• L. Tunceren
• tuncerenl_at_spjc.edu