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Abstract

 

Video-blogging in EFL/ESL Classroom - Challenges, Options and Opportunities

 

Among all the challenges EFL/ESL teachers are facing when they enter the Digital Age, the greatest ones are perhaps the much changed “appetite” and “taste” of their students and the unfortunate fact that the initial training they had received in teacher training institutions is far from enough to meet these challenges. Therefore they need to reposition themselves in this ever-changing environment and re-envision what they teach and how they teach. Blogging, especially video blogging is becoming an increasingly popular option EFL/ESL teachers consider in their desperate effort to satisfy their students’ changing needs (shorter attention span, less interest in reading text, especially print-based text) and growing appetite for online information, mostly images, audio and video clips, and their individual taste as to how they prefer to receive these new formats of information. The presenter taps the potential of video blogging that has made itself more widely available and more easily accessible in teaching both language and culture in the field of EFL/ESL, addresses some of the key issues of common interest and practical concerns in student video blogging, and explores the alternatives in the effective use of video blogging in EFL/ESL classrooms assisting ELLs around the world. (10 minutes)

 

 

 

Ke Xu teaches ESL and CALL at BMCC, the City University of New York. With an MA in TESOL from the City University of New York, he has taught both EFL and ESL at school and college levels in both the United States and China for 28 years. As a researcher and textbook writer, he has published widely (author and co-author of 6 books and over 30 articles, editor of 3 book series) in the areas of EFL testing, EFL/ESL methodology, teacher education, intercultural communication and CALL. He also worked one year in Melbourne, Australia, as an international teaching fellow and curriculum consultant assisting the Victoria State government develop its Chinese programs. Before he came to the United States, he was a member of Jiangsu Provincial Council of Education and Jiangsu EFL Testing Board, as well as director of School EFL Programs in Jiangsu Province, China. He was one of the 5 members of Jiangsu’s test writing taskforce for 2 years  writing test questions for large-scale EFL tests taken by half a million students each year. He is the first translator of the recently launced four-book series “Integrating EFL Standards into Chinese Classroom Setting” published by TESOL/McGraw-Hill. He is also one of the two experts writing the technology section of China’s EFL Teacher Standards. Since 2006, he has been a columnist, co-editor and Editorial Board member for Essential Teacher. He was Chair of TESOL's EFL-IS 2008-2009 and will serve his second term as EFL-IS Chair in 2010.

 

 

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