LESSON 1

PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
APPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE
TEACHING AND LEARNING
 Open-ended Tools and their
Uses in Teaching and
Learning Language Skills

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Open-ended tools or productivity
software applications are ICT tools,
which help the teachers and the
learners make their learning together
concrete, efficient, encouraging, and
meaningful.
As described by Palmer 2015,
teachers need to demonstrate
21st century characteristics to be
able to meet the demands of 21st
century learners.
These characteristics in the context of language teaching
are briefly presented for teachers to;

1. create a learner-centered classroom and make

instruction personalized because learners have
different personalities, goals and needs.
2. facilitate the students’ productivity skills so they can
produce, when assisted and given the chance, movies
that are helpful to enhance their language proficiency;

3. learn new technologies since technology keeps

developing and learning a tool once is not an option for
teachers;
 4. go global to allow students to learn languages,
culture, and acquire communication skills virtually;

5. be smart and allow the use of devices as aids to

language acquisition;

6. do blogging. This will give teachers real experience

to see the value of writing for real audience and
establishing their digital presence;
7. go digital to help promote the “go
paperless” advocacy and to help level
up the language learning experience
of the students through digital
discussions and like;

8. collaborate with other educators

and students to give opportunity for
the sharing of great ideas beyond a
conversation and paper copy;
9. use web chats to share research
and ideas and stay updated in the
field.

10. connect with like-minded

individuals through using media
tools like the social media;
11. introduce Project-Based Learning to allow students to develop ther
driving questions, conduct research, contact experts, and create their
projects for sharing with the use of existing devices present;

12. build positive digital footprint that aims to model appropriate use
of social media, produce and publish valuable content, and create
shareable resources;
13. code as it is today’s literacy which help
boost student’s writing skills as the feeling
of writing a page with HTML is amazing;

14. innovate to expand their teaching

toolbox for the sake of their students by
engaging social media for discussions and
announcement and using new formats.

15. keep learning.

This is how the various productivity
software application can be used in the
language classrooms.
A. Using Word in Scaffolding Students
Learning in a Language Classroom
In education, scaffolding is used
to refer to various forms of
support given to assist, guide, or
facilitate the learning process
[World Links 2008].
ACTIVITY 1 Creating Lesson Plans Using Word
Application

Step 1; Testing Your Knowledge of Word Processing

Software Applications

Begin the activity by citing the existing word processing

software applications familiar to students.

Step 2; Viewing the Essential Parts of Learning Plans

1.Intel Teach Unit
Plan
The intel Teach Program
has this template for its
Unit Plan [Intel
Corporation, 2007].
Unit Author
First and Last Name
School District
School Name
School City, State
Unit Overview
Unit Title

Unit Summary

Subject Area

Grade Level

Approximate Time Needed

Unit Foundation
Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks

Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes

Curriculum-Farming Questions
Essential Questions
Unit Questions
Content Questions
Assessment Plan
Assessment Timeline
Before project Students work on After project work
Work begins projects and complete tasks is completed

Assessment Summary

Unit Details
Prerequisite Skills

Instructional Procedures

Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction

Resource Student
 Native English Speak
Gifted Student
Materials and Resources Required For Unit
Technology Hardware

Technology Software

Printed Materials

Supplies

Internet Resources

Other Resources
2. Department of Education
[DepEd]
The Department of Education of
the Philippines requires teachers
to develop and submit their lesson
plan.
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3. Masusing Banghay Aralin sa Filipino

Apart from teaching English, Mother Tongue, and

other Foreign Languages, Filipino is being taught as an
academic subject and is being used also as a language of
instruction.
4. Syllabus
Teaching language courses in
the university requires learning
plan syllabus.