Jo's+Cluster

**Jo's Cluster**
Any queries, email: jo.guthrie@canterbury.ac.nz Phone/text: 027 483 5510

10 May It has been good to read people's initial thoughts about possible focus questions, and to be involved in conversations in classrooms over the last few days. Several people seem to be focussing on possibilities for students to record themselves and present their own language using technology such as video-recorders, iPods, mobile phones, and then sharing this on wikis or via applications like Voicethread, Glogster or Voki, so I thought I would refer you again to Ellis's principle 7 - //Successful insructed language learning also requires oportunities for output.// He includes a summary of contributions output can make to language learning, and the one that recent discussions has reminded me of is number 6 - //It is important for helping learners develop a 'personal voice' by steering conversation on to topics they are interested in contributing to.//

Keep up the good work, and keep in touch. Jo