Coding with Scratch to teach English as a second language

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Jesús Moreno

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March 13, 2015

Hi,

Next week at IEEE EDUCON 2015 (Tallinn, Estonia) we are presenting "Computer Programming as an Educational Tool in the English Classroom", a preliminary study in which 2 primary teachers used Scratch to teach English as a second language to 4th and 5th graders in a quasy-experimental design (control and experimental groups, pre and post tests).

Here you have the presentation with the main ideas: Slides

Best,
Jesús.

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Kaywin Cottle

Member

September 01, 2016

I did my action research on using graphic organizational tools with ELL students. Now that I am in an area with a larger population of ELL students and using Scratch as a classroom tool, I am interested in doing another research project. I am not currently affiliated with a university or any organization. Do you have any suggestions?

Michelle Choi

Member

March 25, 2015

Hi Jesús,

Congrats on the IEEE submission! Thank you for sharing your slides. How did your presentation go?

Sincerely,
M

Jesús Moreno

Member

March 26, 2015

Hi Michelle,

Thank you for your comments. I think the presentation went quite well, and I had the opportunity of talking to some other researchers working on similar initiatives, so it was a really interesting conference - although not as fun as last summer Scratch Conference! ;-)

Best,
Jesús.

Michelle Choi

Member

March 27, 2015

Glad to hear that the presentation went well!