American English Webinar 5.5

Learner Training-Developing Student Autonomy

to Increase Engagement

https://reflectiveteachingreflectivelearning.com/

Dear students,

Today's topic is "Learner Training-Developing Student Autonomy to Increase Engagement". This session will lead you to be a successful classroom manager and supervisor because you are trained to use some approaches and strategies to organize your students eager to be autonomous learners. To make it clear, you can see the video in the following link: https://dos-materialsdevelopment.adobeconnect.com/_a1017942336/p9fnei5tc9z/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal. For further information you can look up the following articles and download some:
1. https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/english-teaching-forum-volume-53-number-4#child-2021
2. https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/english-teaching-forum-2002-volume-40-number-4#child-236
3. http://www.wordreference.com/
4. http://vark-learn.com/
5. http://www.linguee.com/
Have a nive learning and studying.

Best,
Dr. Rudi Hartono, M.Pd.
The Host of AE Viewing Webinar

American English Webinar 5.4

Using Visual Literacy Skills to Encourage Communicative Language Practice

http://usingvisualliteracy.pbworks.com/w/page/18582407/FrontPage

Dear students,

Today's discussion is "Using Visual Literacy Skills to Encourage Communicative Language Practice". Types of visual can be media for teaching your students vocabulary. They can have new words by discussing visuals. It is really interesting if you use the visuals for building your students' vocabulary, so they can be literate with visuals. For further information how using visual literacy skills can motivate your students to practice their English communicatively, please click this link: https://dos-materialsdevelopment.adobeconnect.com/_a1017942336/p20qekjvn54/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal. 

Beside watching that video, you can read the following suggested articles:

1. Tools to Create Infographics

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/infographic-tools/3626893.html

2. Learning to Look http://www.nea.org/home/38024.htm

3. The Neglected Tools Can Work for You

https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/english-teaching-forum-2012-volume-50-number-4#child-1391

Additional Resources: 

• Supplemental reading about infographics: 
  • “Funkadelic Facts about Infographics” by BitRebels, retrieved from www.bitrebels.com, 2011.
• Resources for visuals:
  • www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
  • www.pewresearch.org/
  • http://eng.letscc.net/
  • https://www.flickr.com/photos/_graphs/albums/
• Sites for creating digital infographics:
  • Canva - https://www.canva.com
  • Piktochart - https://magic.piktochart.com/users/sign_in
  • Venngage - https://venngage.com

 Have a nice watching and reading.

Best,
Dr. Rudi Hartono, M.Pd.
The Host of AE Viewing Webinar