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Using Open-Ended Tools

in Facilitating Language
Learning
 Open-ended Tools and their Uses in
Teaching and Learning Language Skills
1. Create a learner-centered classroom and make instruction
personalized because learners have different responsibilities, goals, and
needs;

2. Facilitate the students’ productivity skills so they produce, when

assisted and given the chance, movies that are helpful to enhance their
language proficiency;

3. Learn new technologies since technologies keeps on

developing and learning a tool once is not an option for
teachers;

4. Go global to allow student’s to learn languages, culture, and

acquire communication skills virtually;

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

language acquisition;
 6. Do blogging.

7. Go digital to help promote the “go paperless” advocacy.

8. Collaborate with other educators and students to give opportunity for

the sharing of great ideas beyond 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 media tools

like the social media;

11. Build positive digital footprint that aims appropriate to use;

12. Introduce Project-Based Learning to allow students develop
their creativity.

13. Code as it is today’s literacy which helps boost students’

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
announcements and using new formats.

15. K E E P L E A R N I N G
A. Using Word in Scaffolding Student 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 (Word Links, 2008)
Activity 1: Creating Learning Plans Using Word Application
Step 1: Testing Your Knowledge of Word Processing Software
Applications
Step 2: Viewing the Essential Parts of Learning Plans

1. Intel Teach Unit Plan

2. Department of Education (Deped)

3. Masusing Banghay Aralin sa Filipino

4. Syllabus
Activity 2: Preparing Process Guides and Graphic Organizers using Word Processing Software
Applications
Step 1: The Relevance of Providing Process Guides and Graphic Organizers in Language Teaching
Step 2: Examples of Process Guides as Scaffold in Language Teaching and Learning
To enhance your process guide, you may consider completing the following
graphic organizers identified according to different purposes (Ware, nd, cited by
World Links, 2008)

a. Venn Diagram f. Inductive Tower

b. Frayer Model g. Flow Chart

c. Bubble Diagram h. Story Map

d. T Chart i. 5ws Chart

e. Fishbone Map

Step 3: Presentation of the Process Guide and or Graphic Organizer

Step 4: Presentation of the Process Guide and or Graphic Organizer
Basic Instructional Design in Preparing
Presentations

1. Setting Up the Presentation Class

2. Organization of the Presentation

3. Presentation Skills

4. The Use of Visual Aids

5. Performing Self-Reflections
Online Microsoft Word Alternatives
(Investintech, 2020)

1. Drop Box Paper

2. Office Online

3. Google Docs

4. Etherpad

5. Zoho

6. OpenOffice

7. AbiWord

8. Jarte

9. WPS Office 2016 Free

10. SoftMaker Free Office

 Producing Learning Resources Using
Technology Tools
Computer- Based Instructional Tools and
Materials in Language Teaching
A. Computer- Assisted Language Learning ( CALL)
B. Language Instructional Materials
Supported by Technology Tools

1. Instructional Charts
a. MS Word
b. MS Excel
c. MS PowerPoint
d. iOs, Android, and Windows Phone and
iPad Chart Maker Apps
2. Posters
a. Spark Post
b. Canva’s Poster Maker
c. Block Posters
d. Posterini
e. PosterMyWall
3. Flashcards
a. Anki
b. Vocabla: English Dictionary
c. Learn Spanish with Edukoala
d. Study Blue
4. Slide
a. MS PowerPoint
b. PowToon
c. Google Drive Presentation
d. Slide Rocket
e. Prezi
5. Work Sheets and Forms
a. Google Forms
b. Monkey Survey Forms
c. Paper Forms
d. Survey Forms
e. QuickTapSurvey
f. Type Form
g. Cognito Form
h. Ninja Forms
6. Newsletters
7. Pamphlets
8. Brochures
9. Cartoon
10. Journal
11. Bulletins Boards
a. Wall Wiser
b. Corkboard Me
c. Popplet
d. Spaaze
e. Group Zap
f. RealtimeBoard
 Characteristics of Effective and Efficient
Instructional Tools
1. Enhances instructional effectiveness
2. Promotes active learning
3. Develops Critical thinking
4. Accommodates differentiated instruction
5. Motivating
6. Multisensory