In his blog, Nik Peachey lists a number of benefits of using infographics in class: They are easy to find using sites such as Daily Infographic and Cool Infographics. The visual and statistic aspects help to convey meaning so theyRead more…
Task design and evaluation
The topic for this week was task design and evaluation. It makes sense to begin with a definition of task. In Materials Development in language teaching, Ellis (2011) offers the following definition: The focus of a task is on ‘meaning’.Read more…
Creating a worksheet
This week’s task involved creating a worksheet. Rather than use Jolly and Bolitho’s framework, I used the ideas from the methodology module to help plan the lesson. I will compare my materials to Jolly and Bolitho’s framework towards the endRead more…
A framework for evaluating coursebooks
The pre-seminar task for week three involved organising ourselves into groups of three, choosing one of the selected readings and summarising it for the rest of the group. Based on our own experiences and the reading, we created a draftRead more…