Using Edmodo with ESOL learners

Why Edmodo?

easy to access user friendly interface / very similar to Facebook mobile app secure / teacher has overall control of posts range of activities +apps to use

https://support.edmodo.com/home#teacher

Possible benefits:

Reduces the barriers between ‘learning and living’ (Little, 1991) – building on existing learner autonomy

Learners are using social media every day Similarity of this type of writing to spoken language could help learners

develop speaking skills - ‘written-as-if-spoken’ language - (Walker and White, 2013:42)

Allows less confident learners time to reflect before making their contributions – seems to result in more detailed / fuller responses

Learners seem to have fully engaged with only using English on Edmodo – in contrast to their use of Facebook etc

More info: dianatremayne@calderdale.ac.uk; laural@calderdale.ac.uk