What teachers and students do with ICT in ELT

Teachers: out of class

• preparing worksheets
• creating interactive activities
• administration
• writing course outlines
• emailing colleagues and students
• correcting written work
• professional development:
  • online journals
  • discussion forums
  • downloading lesson plans and ideas
  • exploiting general teaching resources
  • language and linguistic development

Teachers: in class

Teachers use presentation software and guide students to relevant resources on the web.

Students in and out of class

Students use computers for activities that are creative, communicative and collaborative, for discovery learning and task based activities. For example:

• drill-and-practice programs
• short answer quiz questions
• word order activities
• crosswords
• clozes and matching exercises
• vocabulary games
• action mazes
• adventures and simulations
• exploratory programs
• text reconstruction
• data driven learning activities
• webquests