When it comes to exploiting texts for language teaching, the choice of text matters. Different types of texts suit different purposes.
Some types of text often seen in language teaching classrooms:
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When it comes to exploiting texts for language teaching, the choice of text matters. Different types of texts suit different purposes.
Some types of text often seen in language teaching classrooms:
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All resources on TextActivities.com have a worksheet printing option accessed via this button, which is visible in resource view and activity view:
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This post examines "Assignments" on TextActivities. (For those familiar with Textivate, "assignments" are similar to Textivate's "sequences", but they work very differently. See section 1 (xiii) in this blog post comparing TextActivities and Textivate.)
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Many of the activities available on TextActivities.com -- both text rebuild and vocab / matching -- can be seen as scaffolded dictation activities, i.e. which require students to listen to some language in the L2 (the target language) and also interact in some way with that same bit of language in its written form.
This blog takes a look at how this works and which modes to choose if your aim is to practise dictation-like activities.
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This user-guide is for those new to TextActivities.
It explains how to create a class and how to create student accounts.
It also shows you what it looks like from a student's perspective when they go to the site for the first time.
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This user guide is for those new to TextActivities.com
It explains how to import textivate resources into TextActivities.
You can do this even if your Textivate subscription has expired!
This user guide is for those new to TextActivities.com
It explains where to go and what to do so that you can start creating your own resource.
Click on the "Resources" menu option in the top nav bar of the site:
TextActivities is a new website which includes a lot of the functionality of Textivate. It is essentially Textivate 2.0, but with so many changes from the original that we had no option but to launch it as a totally separate website.
So what are the main differences?
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Welcome to the TextActivities blog :)
TextActivities is a website for teachers and learners of languages. It is brought to you by the people behind (in reverse chronological order) SentenceBuilders, TeachVid, Textivate and TaskMagic.
TextActivities is essentially Textivate 2.0, but with so many changes from the original that we had no option but to launch it as a totally separate website.
Those familiar with Textivate will recognise here many of the activities and pedagogical features of Textivate, but delivered in a completely different way, with a totally new interface, a completely different approach to classes, school management, resource creation, student logins and assignments, and hopefully a much more intuitive work flow.
Those familiar with SentenceBuilders will find here many of the same classroom and school management tools, and a similar look and feel to the SentenceBuilders site.
While our hope is that current Textivate users will value the many improvements and will want to migrate to TextActivities, the original Textivate will remain in place.
If you'd like 7 days' free access to the site, simply go to TextActivities.com and request a trial via the contact form in the page footer. You'll then have 7 days to create resources, try other people's resources, set up classes and student accounts, set assignments and competitions, and see for yourself how the whole site works :)
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