Creative Writing and Speaking
In a series of four articles entitled“ Bridging the technophobe-technophile gap” in ENGLISH TEACHING professional, Daniel Monaghan and Tessa Woodward develop the idea of‘ stimulus-based learning and teaching’, identifying a stimulus as‘ anything that engages a student’ s attention and encourages language learning and use. It could be a group of new words, a text, tweet, picture, email, object, chunk of language, visitor, song, YouTube video or map.’( 62) Some of these need no internet connection, but we can easily find a myriad of resources if we do have one.
Fotobabble( www. fotobabble. com) is a photo sharing platform and also an app for iPhones or tablets which adds your voice to the pictures. It is very easy to use as it just involves uploading a picture and then recording a description or narration. Students can describe a place / person / event or narrate what is happening in the picture or what they think happened before / after, they can even create holiday e-cards or prepare for speaking exams.
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