This demonstration discusses current technologies used in developing an online community for students learning English as a second language. The presenter explores the issues related to developing and implementing an intelligent computer simulation designed to help ESL students learn how to write summaries. The presenter also demonstrates the simulation, showing how an embedded cognitive apprenticeship model of support was implemented. Technology has made it possible to collect a database of real-life speech and writing that can be surfed via concordancers. Resulting corpora are useful to teachers and learners.
Teachers can create lists of language patterns.
Learners can explore language for themselves. Corpora also provide authentic material for creating test items. She then clarifies the particularities of this medium and presents current ways of MOO implementation. She concludes by offering recommendations for integrating MOOs in language learning. The presenters will show different types of chat sites from the Internet.