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ASSURE Model of Instructional Development


Characteristics of current hybrid course

At Universidad Latina, I have had the chance to teach EFL students in English
Language Teaching (ELT) who are getting an intermediate degree between the Bachelors
Degree and Masters Degree, which is called in Latin America Licenciatura. These learners
are already graduate students who are either teaching in local high schools or who are
perfecting their knowledge in ELT to have a better chance of getting a teaching position.
The ELT course I am currently teaching them at the university is LIN-03 Teaching English
as Foreign Language, in which graduate ELT students deepen their comprehension of
language teaching methodologies after the CLT (Communicative Language Teaching).


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Learning objective explanation

By the end of class forum discussions and Demo Activity creation, LIN-03
students will be able to produce their own PBL tasks for their current or future EFL
students with a 100% of accuracy.

Forum Discussion 3

As we have been developing the different, alternative approaches to language teaching,
we are now confronted with the use of PBL in ELT. We have also noted that Project-
Based Learning was not born to suit a language curriculum, but teachers have found
different ways to apply it to English language learning contexts.

Lets follow the following steps to reflect upon PBL:

Review the eArticles and videos provided on the platform about PBL
o What is PBL? [eArticle]
o Introduction to Project-Based Learning [eArticle]
o Project-Based Learning: Explained [Video]

o How to create a WebQuest (Webpage: www.Zunal.com)
Consider how this approach to enhance student learning can be used in your
teaching context
Explain at least two different ways in which you could incorporate projects into your
current or future EFL classes [Elaborate your answer]
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Examine the immediate benefits for learners as well for instructors

As we highlighted before, keep in mind that the idea here is to share our points of view
to broaden ours and help on consolidating our ELT Community of Practice.

Please post your reflections by Friday and respond individually to two or more of your
colleagues' postings.

Additionally, to fully understand a sample activity of what PBL is in terms of WebQuests,
all students are require to create one for their current or future students.
WebQuest Tuturial (Video)



Explanation of how the media selected will be used by students to support
the accomplishment of the learning objective

As explained in the task students must complete, media has been selected so that
students together with the class discussion and explanation- can further understand
what PBL is and how it is used in learning contexts. Additionally, learners are required to
create a WebQuest, a sample task carried out in PBL teaching, to fully comprehend what
it means to work with PBL. However, the other possible exercises used in this teaching
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approach are also discussed so students have an ample repertoire of activities for their
high school learners.

As part of their learning task, LIN-03 students are asked to review eArticles
published by higher education institutions that use PBL as part of their learning and
teaching. Moreover, learners can also review and sign in at www.Zunal.com for them to
create a highly interactive WebQuest for their current or future students in high school.

Challenge that can be anticipated when using the media in your current or
future online course

After working with this particular forum discussion and WebQuest production,
there were no real challenges in the dealing with the media resources provided with the
students. What came out after students have participated in the forum and they explained
their PBL projects is what I hadnt anticipated but didnt take me off guard.

Since most of my students are currently working in public high schools, there was
a group that criticized the use of WebQuests in their teaching scenarios due to the lack
of connectivity and access to technology in their schools. However, as I explained to them
in our F2F class, we can also have a paper-based WebQuest with high school students
who may lack access to the Internet since part of the process of this type of PBL activity
is to identify the media we want students to access to achieve the learning goal.


Buck Institute for Education (BIE). (n.d.). What is Project-Based Learning (PBL)?
Retrived on May 18, 2014 from the BIE Website at http://bie.org/about/what_pbl

Buck Institute for Education (BIE). (2010, Sept. 12). Project-Based Learning Explained
[Video]. Retrieved on May 18, 2014 from YouTube.Com at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGesRz8

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Global SchoolNet. (2000). Introduction to Project-Based Learning. Retrieved on May 18,
2014 from the Global SchoolNet Website at http://www.gsn.org/web/pbl/

Kong, L. (2011, Nov. 21). WebQuest Tutorial [Video]. Retrieved on May 18, 2014 from
YouTube.Com at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rK_pFmk-Y

Zunal. (2001-2014). Zunal WebQuest Maker [WebPage]. http://zunal.com/




To fully comprehend the scope of this teaching reflections, it is highly advisable that
the following topics must be expanded further:
WebQuests
WebQuests in ELT
Paper WebQuests in the Absence of Internet Access
Project-Based Learning (PBL)


Professor Jonathan Acua-Solano
ELT Trainer, Instructor & Curriculum Developer based in Costa Rica
Active NCTE Costa Rica Member
Resource Teacher & Curricular Developer at CCCN
Senior ELT Instructor at Universidad Latina, Costa Rica, since 1998
Contact Information:
Twitter @jonacuso
Email: jonacuso@gmail.com


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Article published on Sunday, May 18, 2014

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