EMPOWERING WEB APPLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS & LEARNERS
Dr. George Kolanchery
georgeomani@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The paper focuses on open source(OS) softwares or freewares available on the internet for ELT teaching and learning practices and delves deep into a few of them to show ways for exploiting the potentials of these from a linguistic perspective to make learning and teaching interactive, learner-centric , multisensory and individual paced.
The internet with its immense possibilities for disseminating knowledge, global sharing of ideas and constructive intellectual collaboration/rebuilding has become an enormous repertoire of free/open source softwares that cater to the needs of many teachers/learners at various levels of instruction. Though many teachers are conversant with the commonly popular softwares used in their academic environment a considerable section is not yet well initiated into the rich pool of freewares quite reliable to enhance quality of pedagogy and better positive learning outcomes in English language education. The presentation apart from attempting a fleeting survey of the cost-free softwares for ELT practices at various levels will demonstrate the rudiments of downloading /installing /using a few of them so that the participant get well informed notions on how to utilize these digital contributions to their academic scenario to help learners acquire/practise all the skills in English.
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