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Spoken Language: A Document Analysis

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There are many different CALL tools that have been described above and all of them have plenty of task-based language learning value. Quizlet allows for development of vocabulary skills, both in first and second languages, which allows for a learner to comprehend more texts (Park et al., 2012). Google docs offers much in the way of collaborative written tasks which drives more student motivation for completion and hosts of a lot of potential in development in accuracy of written language (Ware & Kessler, 2012). With the combination of other written tasks such as Edublogs, there is a variety of task-ideas for teachers to offer students, that are appealing to the eye due to aspects such as VSTF and visual aids making reading more fluent (Park et al., 2012). The combination of these three tools as tasks for year 12 Biology would allow for a variety of reading and writing development. …show more content…

Quizlet is very helpful for a learner to determine the correct pronunciation of a term that they are learning, as it gives a spoken version of both terms and definitions. Other tools can assist with listening also, which allow for greater comprehension but there are few that require speaking. Explain everything could be used as a formative or summative task to follow the above applications. Students would be encouraged to use their own voices to portray an understanding of a topic, along with the help of pictures and text. This would develop spoken communication of the person explaining and can easily be carried out as a collaborative task in

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