ONLINE UNIT FOR ENGLISH 101B

This unit is going to be offered online around week seven in the semester and will last for about three weeks. The main goal is for the unit to culminate in a major assignment, which is a "Process" essay. The whole unit aims at providing the students with all the tools necessary (video-recorded grammar lesson, quizzes, videos describing a process, a forum discussion, etc.) for them to write a successful essay.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this unit, students will, hopefully, be able to: use the passive and the active voices correctly in academic writing; work collaboratively in groups; practice revision and editing strategies by responding to classmates’ papers (peer response activity); provide effective peer feedback by responding to one of the major papers assigned in the class (describing a process); revise and edit their own work by assuming the position of readers; know how to post to forum discussions in Moodle and reply to others' posts; and describe a process in a coherent and concise way.

PROJECTS DESIGNED FOR ENGLISH 510

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Online Reading Activity Skill Consolidation Task 2

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PROJECTS DESIGNED FOR ENGLISH 518

As an EFL/ESL teacher, through my years of teaching I have seen students struggling to distinguish and use two syntactic structures correctly: the simple past vs. the present perfect. These grammar points definitely represent a difficulty not only for Brazilian students but for students from many different countries and several different first language backgrounds. Therefore, for one of my 518 assignments, I decided to create a game that will provide learners with both fluency-oriented and accuracy-oriented practice in these two grammar points. Moreover, this game will serve as a tool of assessment for teachers to evaluate how much students have learned and what needs to be reviewed before any official exams are given. See game