RIESI Techno-pedagogy in English Language Teaching

Sessions objectives

1. To help teachers understand Krashen’s Hypotheses and their application in tackling challenges in ELT to enable students to develop communicative competencies in English
2. To help teachers experience and understand the ways in which mobile-based audio stories and related classroom activities can support English language teaching-learning (techno-pedagogy).
3. To help teachers access and make use of available resource repositories
4. To familiarize teachers with FOSS tools that can be used to create and productionize audio resources
5. To help facilitate teachers in using multilingual, inclusive and constructivist pedagogies in language teaching

Sessions Agenda

Day	Time	Session Name	Description/Topics	Resources
Day 1	3:00 to 5:00 PM	Krashen’s Hypotheses	Introduction to Krashen’s Hypotheses How ELT challenges can be overcome by applying these ideas along with integration of digital technologies Experiences from the field – different kinds of activities and use of OER for providing comprehensive input	MindMap Link to video by Krashen storyweaver.org.in Stories in different languages
Day 2	10:00 to 10:30 AM	Introduction, Overview	Developing a broad understanding of the Kathe Khajane Program (why digital audio stories, tech-enabled story-based pedagogy, Y1 workshops and outcomes/feedback)	Slide deck
	10:30 to 11:45 AM (Including Tea Break)	Immersive Demo and Discussion	Immersive demo session including Total Physical Response (TPR), pre-listening, during and post-listening activities modeling a classroom setting with teachers participating as students Discussion on demo, feedback, other ways to use digital audio stories	Slide deck A cloud of trash activity page Pre-listening activities During listening activities Post listening activities Story elements handout Mindmapping tools - Freeplane (desktop), Mindomo (mobile)
	11:45 to 12:15 PM	Mobile App demo and hands-on practice	App installation, subscribing to the English Stories Podcast Streaming and downloading Sharing (social message) Searching/ Sorting Bookmarks Changing speed	Antennapod App Khathe Khajane website Antennapod video tutorials Video 1 - Download, Install and subscribe Video 2 - Accessing, orgnising and sharing
	12.15 to 1:00 PM	Narration techniques and how to record a story using your mobile	1. Narration guidelines 2. Using appropriate volume, pitch, voice modulation and expression while recording a story 3. technical tips for recording	Story selection guidelines Story Narration and Recording
	1:00 to 2:00 PM	LUNCH
	2:00 to 2:30 PM	Resource Creation Process	1. Take up a lesson from a textbook and demonstrate how they can create a summary/dialogue/conversation for the lesson to make it interesting. 2. Demonstrate use of GoogleLens, AI tools and text to voice for this.	ChatGPT Google Translate
	2:30 to 4:30 PM (Including Tea Break)	Recording and Editing Resources – Demo	Sample recording, editing demo using audacity, learn pages of other useful audio/video editing tools	Recording Guidelines - Do's & Dont's Audacity manual

Sessions Resources

1. Krashen hypotheses

Additional Audio and video resources

1. Actor Rajkummar Rao Says The Same Line In 15 Emotions
2. Rich recitations - Karadi tales - Very rich and brilliant audio stories based on Indian stories and using Indian tunes.
   1. Crickematics with Rahul Dravid
   2. Monkey on a Fast with Sanjay Dutt
   3. Rail Gaadi Chhuk Chhuk Chhuk Hindi song

Online OER audio repositories

1. Background music tracks accessed from different OER repositories (Google Drive)
2. BenSound - https://www.bensound.com/
3. Soundible - http://soundbible.com/
4. FreeSound - https://freesound.org/

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