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Using Blogs and Voki to increase motivationand oral participation amongst boys inModern Foreign Languages.
University of LeedsSchool of EducationMA ICT and EducationModule EDUC5979MJosé Picardo200375143
Table of contents
1. Introduction2. Rationale
2.1. Why don
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t boys like to talk in the foreign language?
52.2. Why use ICT to help with this problem?
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3. Implementation
3.1. How familiar are pupils with blogs and Voki?
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1. Introduction
I was recently the subject of a great culture shock: a year ago, I transferred from agirls school to an all boys school. Myths materialised and hearsay became reality as Ihad to completely re-think my approach to teaching Spanish so as to make it morefitting and more relevant to my new, all male pupils.It is a well researched fact that boys andgirls prefer different learning styles andthat that they have a different approach totheir education: girls are generally por-trayed as conscientious and hard working,whilst boys are often portrayed as lazy,untidy and indulging in an anti-educationculture. There is a widespread recognitionthat gender does indeed affect the way we all think, behave and learn (Maynard2002).When it comes to learning Modern Foreign Languages, boys have traditionally under-performed in comparison to girls, who consistently achieve the highest grades. Boysare frequently described as less interested in languages and are statistically morelikely to drop languages altogether at Key Stage 4, when MFL cease to be compul-sory (Dearing and King 2007). (
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)It is obviously not the case that all boys behave in this manner, nor are all girls con-scientious and hard working. The above is a generalisation, a rule of thumb, that all
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Percentage taking languages: Boys vs Girls (Dearing and King, 2007)
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