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Text Chat Activities: A Resource Book for Language Teachers
With the rise of smartphones and tablets, WiFi and 3G, text chat has become a common form of daily communication for many around the world. By bringing it into our language classes we can provide our learners with real world practice, giving them the skills they need to communicate in today's tech-influenced society. And the benefits don't end there.
In this book, I discuss the advantages of using text chat with language learners and how teachers can intergrate into their courses. I have also included a range of text chat tasks for pair and groupwork. Adapted from traditional communicative activities, and utilising a range of technology and media, these tasks are an engaging, fun and effective way for learners to practice their language in a text chat environment. Each task comes with clear instructions for teachers and students.
Although primarily aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language, teachers of other languages can also reap the benefits of text chat practice by adapting activities to suit their learners' needs .
In this book, I discuss the advantages of using text chat with language learners and how teachers can intergrate into their courses. I have also included a range of text chat tasks for pair and groupwork. Adapted from traditional communicative activities, and utilising a range of technology and media, these tasks are an engaging, fun and effective way for learners to practice their language in a text chat environment. Each task comes with clear instructions for teachers and students.
Although primarily aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language, teachers of other languages can also reap the benefits of text chat practice by adapting activities to suit their learners' needs .
101 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 15, 2015
About the author
Mark J. Oliver
12 books11 followersMark J. Oliver is the author of two novels, THE ALLIANCE OF REMARKABLE LANDLORDS, a contemporary adult fairy tale and THE RIFT RIDER, a science fiction story that blends action adventure, quest, romance, and surfing.
Mark was born in Gloucestershire, England. After Graduating from Cardiff University and brief spells temping in Brighton, Gloucester and London, Mark left the UK to start teaching English as a foreign language. He has an MA in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).
Over the last fourteen years, he has lived and taught in Australia, Japan, Brazil, Portugal, Thailand, Singapore, Lebanon, Taiwan and Sri Lanka. He has also worked on teacher training projects with UNRWA in Lebanon and the British Council in Borneo.
Inspired by his travels, experiences and the cast of incredible characters he met along the way, Mark set out to write his first novel, The Rift Rider, in 2013. He published his second novel, The Alliance of Remarkable Landlords in 2015. They are both available on Amazon.
He is also the author of four graded readers for learners of English, three essay writing guides and the teacher training book, Text Chat Activities.
His articles have been published in Modern English Teacher and English Australia Journal.
Mark was born in Gloucestershire, England. After Graduating from Cardiff University and brief spells temping in Brighton, Gloucester and London, Mark left the UK to start teaching English as a foreign language. He has an MA in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).
Over the last fourteen years, he has lived and taught in Australia, Japan, Brazil, Portugal, Thailand, Singapore, Lebanon, Taiwan and Sri Lanka. He has also worked on teacher training projects with UNRWA in Lebanon and the British Council in Borneo.
Inspired by his travels, experiences and the cast of incredible characters he met along the way, Mark set out to write his first novel, The Rift Rider, in 2013. He published his second novel, The Alliance of Remarkable Landlords in 2015. They are both available on Amazon.
He is also the author of four graded readers for learners of English, three essay writing guides and the teacher training book, Text Chat Activities.
His articles have been published in Modern English Teacher and English Australia Journal.
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