{"id":1596,"date":"2017-07-23T23:13:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2017-07-23T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:13:31","slug":"notes-on-web-design-for-elaborated-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2017\/07\/23\/notes-on-web-design-for-elaborated-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Web Design for Elaborated Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s nearly the start of the summer holidays at the universities I teach at. I wanted to set something to do for the students so that they use English but don’t require me to come back to a large volume of marking. Not many of my students read enough, so I thought some poetry might be good. It’s short, interesting and probably something that they would not think about choosing themselves. 
\nWhat’s the task? <\/b>
\nThe task is reading for pleasure. It is absolutely non-compulsory. It’s the summer and not everyone is lazy. Part-time jobs get busier, as do familial and social obligations. 
\nSo, why and how did you elaborate the poems? <\/b>
\nAccording to Michael Long (2015) elaborated texts are richer and therefore provide more in the way of natural, comprehensible input as opposed to simplified texts. You can’t really add a ‘which means X’ clause in a poem line, though. What I can do is make in-patient pop ups appear with corpus data, pictures and questions. I chose to do it on the internet because Beatty (2012)says that it offers useful affordances for elaboration. 
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nI used the Bootstrap framework to design the site, which means it’s grey but it is responsive to mobile devices. 
\nThe websites I used for elaboration were SKELL<\/a> and Duck Duck Go<\/a>. Note that Google and Twitter do not let you embed their pages in iframe tags (tags that let you display other websites in your web page). 
\nIt’s not perfect; the design could be better and I’d like bigger type in mobile view. For a few hours work, I think I did OK. 
\nReferences<\/b>
\nLong, M. (2015) Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching. London: Wiley. 
\nBeatty, K. (2012) Teaching and Researching Computer Aided Language Learning. London: Routledge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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