In 2006-2007 I was invited by King Mongkut University in Thailand to develop an internet-based language support system for their students, many of whom take compulsory classes taught in English. The programme, ‘My English’, is now successfully in use with the approximately 25000 students at the University and comprises hundreds of online materials, staff support, online assessment, and many other features.
I have also developed mobile applications for language learning and have a particular interest in the area of computer games. You can read more about this by looking on the CALL pages.
Although I have limited time, at certain occasions during the year I may be able to help with or consult on:
- establishing online language support
- implementing blended learning
- establishing a self-access centre or self-access learning opportunities
- establishing a language advising or language counselling service
- developing CALL language learning materials
- implementing languages across the curriculum
- language policy development
- implementing changes/innovation
- staff development in these areas
“The best way to predict the future is to build it.” - Douglas Adams
Online Language Support
The electronic learning environment developed at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, helps learners to analyse their needs, plan their learning, monitors progress, prompts learners for mismatches between the materials they use and their goals (e.g. if a resource is not designed to improve the skills they have chosen to work on), and provides a range of additional pedagogic interventions. The programme helps students to identify appropriate materials among the approximately 1,100 available resources and lets them directly access them as all materials have been digitised.
You can take a virtual tour of the ELSAC. Depending on your connection, this may take a few minutes to load. For more information about the ELSAC visit its website.
Last year I designed an online language support programme called ‘My English’ for King Mongkut University in Thailand. This programme offers support to Thai students learning English at the tertiary level. It allows staff to monitor students’ progress and give feedback, and it encourages the development of metacognitive learner strategies among learners. More information about the programme can be found here.
