UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSE DE CLADAS

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS Y EDUCACION

PROYECTO LEBEI

ENGLISH COMPOSITION WORKSHOP

NAME: Diana Ma. A. Jimenez H TEACHER: Alba Olaya DATE: march
7th 2011

Context

A Distrital University student is

writing his/her research project
about ICT implementation in
the school where he/she is
doing the pedagogical project.
She/He has not had the
wonderful composition class,
thus, she/he does not know
how to go around with writing
the document and desperately
needs to graduate in a month
as he/she has already a
$4.000.000 offer job to start this May. Look at the ideas for
the different chapters and help him/her with writing. He/She
is offering a reward that is equivalent to her/his first month
salary.

I. Read the following thesis statement and write an

outline for chapter 1

“The use of information and communication technologies offers

better opportunities for teachers as well as for students. “

0. Contextualization: ICT
1. Topic sentence: ICT teaching.
2. Supporting idea: Teachers interact with education and
culture through technology.
2.1 Supporting idea 2: ICT tool helps teachers to teach and
learn.
2.2 Supporting idea 3: teaching in a better way using ICT
sources.
3. Conclusion: working with ICT, teachers need to know and
explore each element about technology giving them the
possibility to interchange knowledge not only learning but
teaching too.
Question: How ICT offers better opportunities to teachers?

0. Contextualization: ICT
 1. Topic sentence: ICT students.
2. Supporting idea: students interact with education and
culture through technology.
2.1 Supporting idea 2: ICT helps the students to learn more
and better.
2.2 Supporting idea 3: ICT used by students require
exploration about sources.
3. Conclusion: working with ICT, students have to know and
explore each element about technology giving them the
possibility to interchange knowledge using sources.
Question: How ICT offers better opportunities to students?

0. Contextualization: ICT
1. Topic sentence: teachers –students’ technology - ICT
services.
2. Supporting idea: academic use of ICT to learn and teach.
2.1 Supporting idea 2: ICT interaction through culture and
technology.
2.2 Supporting idea 3: ICT into the classes provide new and
better chance for learning and teaching.
3. Conclusion: applying ICT into the class is necessary to
recognize the opportunities and services it has in an
academic environment ,looking for the interaction through
culture and technology, especially ICT teaching and
learning processes

II. Read the following outline for chapter 2 and write a

paragraph about it.
Outline:
1. Topic sentence: Disadvantages of implementing ICT in teaching
English in schools.
2. Supporting details
2.1. Great amount of information
2.2. Non- reliable sources
2.3. Lack of infrastructure
2.4. Students attitudes in the ICT classroom
3. Conclusion

Exploring technology we are facing with a lot of problems,

we have many disadvantages especially implementing ICT
teaching English in schools. We have a lot of information to
work with the students, however we always do not have
consistent sources and we need a lot of infrastructure that
many times can interrupt the processes learning with ICT,
also teacher have to qualify the students to use in a correct
way the technology looking for the awareness in the
autonomous work into and out the classroom. Finally
exploring and using technology specifically ICT we have
advantages and disadvantages however the most
important is facing each one with the properly strategy
maximizing all sources we have and giving the students the
possibility to learn and practice more conscious about their
own process in ICT learning.

III. This is one of the paragraphs he/she has already

written. Read it carefully and comment on it.
Though disadvantages also exist, for example, when the students
looks for information and finds plenty without knowing which is
true, this tends to confuse the student. Another disadvantage are
the constant change of the instruments, the requirement of wide
and modern infrastructures, bearing in mind that many
educational establishments lack them. Since for example in the
institucion where I work, only one computer room exists and it’s in
the Baccalaureate headquarters, Elementary school children have
access to it in the systems class, but requesting the room for other
subjects it is very complicated, I would dare say almost
impossible. I have my own laptop and I use it to design the work
guides.
Comments:
The text has adjectives and academic words nevertheless
is not objective, it has a lot of impressions like experiences
but not argue base in a theory or a real thesis
The text has grammar mistakes.

IV. This is an article for the literature review. Read it

carefully. Is it relevant for this research? Why? Why
not?

How can technology contribute to the language classroom?

A recurring theme in the literature on computer mediated communication is that
New Technologies offer opportunities for treating teaching and learning as truly
social activities where knowledge is built through interaction and dialogue rather
than lectures and recitation (Brown, 2000, Hardwick, 2000, Rice, 2003).
Technology goes beyond the delivery of information and lies instead in the
power to create collaborative, learner-centered educational spaces (Deitering &
Huston, 2004). Thanks to technology now language teachers have new tools that
can provide students with opportunities to interact with virtual communities
while at the same time they can construct knowledge and exchange cultural
issues with the participants. This interaction fosters communication among the
individuals in the community which at the same time can enhance construction
knowledge, socio-cultural understanding and language learning. For this specific
research project, blogs were used as a tool to provide students a different
learning writing environment that allowed them to interact, communicate and
learn with people from an English speaking country.

Reference: Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal. Number 10 • October 2008.

“Blogging: A way to foster EFL writing”. Quintero Luz Mary
 V. TASK: Investigate about techniques for paraphrasing
and re-write this paragraph for the document.

0. Contextualization: ICT
1. Topic sentence: ICT offers better opportunities to
students and teachers.
2. Supporting idea: students and teachers need use ICT
in order to interact with education and culture.
2.1 Supporting idea 2: using technology in academic
context can help as a good tool to teach and learn.
2.2 Supporting idea 3: ICT is an element that each day
has been present into the classes in order to learn
and teach in a better way.
3. Conclusion: working with ICT we need to know and
explore each element about technology giving us the
possibility to interchange knowledge not only learning
but teaching too.
|Question: How ICT offers better opportunities to students
and teachers?