Technology and

Developing
Interactional Skills
Instructor: Pedro P. Raymunde Jr., LPT, MAED
INTRODUCTION FOR
LISTENING SKILLS
• Listening became a skill to be reckoned with and its key
position in communication recognized (Feyten, 1991;
Omaggio Hadley, 2001). In the communicative approach to
language teaching, this means teachers modelling listening
strategies and providing listening practice in authentic
situations: those that learners are likely to encounter when
they use the language outside the classroom.
• Listening lends itself to self-access in the same way that
reading does. Listening in the real world and listening to
authentic texts, however, is obviously more complex.
The Internet – A Goldmine of
Listening Materials
• An unending stream of audio and video lessons, television
and radio broadcasts, including news and documentaries,
and music videos are now at our fingertips through different
sources. In addition to this, a new generation of internet
tools are available (Skype, podcasts, online webcasts and
conferences, voice boards). Moreover, social networks create
multiple opportunities for authentic communication.
Audio and Video
• The principal benefits of online audio and video start with
the range of material in terms of subject matter, accent of
the speaker, and length.
INTRODUCTION FOR
SPEAKING SKILLS
• Of all four key language skills, speaking is deemed to be the
most important in learning a second or foreign language. As
stated by Ur (1996), speaking included all other skills of
knowing that language. Speaking is "the process of building
and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal
symbols, in a variety of contexts" (Chaney, 1998).
REASONS FOR TEACHING
SPEAKING
THE ROLES OF STUDENTS IN
LEARNING SPEAKING
• Intensive
• Responsive
• Interpersonal (dialogue
• Transactional (dialogue)
• Extensive (monologue)
MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN
DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILL
• Communication lab
• Speech recognition software
• Internet
• TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning)
• Pod casting
• Quick Link Pen
• Quicktionary
THE STORY OF COMPETENCE
• Identity resources
• Linguistic resources
• Interactional resources
READING, WRITING AND
ONLINE LITERACY
• Kaizena
• No Red Ink
• American Wordspeller
• Hemingway
• Rewordify
• Newsela
• Snap&Read Universal