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Engaging English Language Project Tools

The project aims to generate interest in speaking and writing skills among learners by having them participate in a creative language contest involving activities like speeches, stories, and plays. Learners will take a learning style questionnaire and choose a creative activity, with grades based on timely participation. The document also lists numerous online tools for improving English skills in areas like reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and exam preparation to help learners develop independence.

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Engaging English Language Project Tools

The project aims to generate interest in speaking and writing skills among learners by having them participate in a creative language contest involving activities like speeches, stories, and plays. Learners will take a learning style questionnaire and choose a creative activity, with grades based on timely participation. The document also lists numerous online tools for improving English skills in areas like reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and exam preparation to help learners develop independence.

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Monserrat Aparicio Vázquez
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Project and Tools

1 Project
Objective: This project is created with the aim of generating interest among the learners so as to allow them to
participate actively in one or more of the two productive skills of the English language, i.e. Speaking & Writing;
as well as to motivate them in both, classes and real-life language use/situational, i.e. Pragmatics.

Creative
Language
Contest

Speaking Pragmatics

Writing

• a speech • a short story • a play


• karaoke • an essay • a short film
• speech translation • 1 narrative (10min)
in real time • 2 descriptive • functions’ stalls
• (other) • 3 expository • didactic games
• • 4 persuasive • a sketch
• (humorous)
• a review (book
• (other)
• or movie)
• •
• a comic book
• •
• a magazine
A • (other) •
R/V V/K/A

Procedure: The learners take the VARK questionnaire at [Link] Then,


they decide on the creative activity that best suits them.
After this, the teachers and the learners check the calendar in order to plan the way their participation has to be
submitted and the grade the learners will get for completing the task and coming in…
1) 1st or 2nd (100%), coming in 3rd (90%) or (teacher’s criteria).
2) All other learners that submitted their projects in a timely manner (80%) or (teacher’s criteria).
3) Those learners that did not participate and did not complete the task in a timely manner (0%).
2 Tools
Objective: The sharing of these tools with the learners helps them to become independent and creative because they can
use a wide range of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) tools to improve their language skills, i.e. Reading,
Writing, Listening & Speaking as well as the language systems, i.e. Grammar, Vocabulary, Functions, & Phonology.

Reading & Writing:

[Link]
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Reading & Listening:

[Link]
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Speaking & Pronunciation:

[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
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[Link]

Exam Preparation:

[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]

Developing Learners’ Independence:

Oxford Dictionary [Link]


Merriam-Webster [Link]
Collins [Link]
Cambridge Online [Link]
Longman [Link]
[Link] [Link]
Macmillan [Link]

Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation, & Functions, (spelling)

[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]

Other Tools:

Google Apps: Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Google Drive, Google Translate, Google Maps, and Google Images, Jefferson
Platform (Moodle)

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