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Enhancing English Classroom Engagement Through Padlet as an Effective Learning Tool

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Abstract Over the past two years, the world has been under an ongoing global pandemic of Coronavirus 19 that has affected almost sectors, especially education. Schools closed and transitioned from face-to-face classrooms to some kinds of virtual education set up at home. Many versatile online teaching tools have been tested to support online teaching to create a virtual learning environment with features that would keep learners engaged, interact and help them experience closest to the real environment, one of them is the Padlet application. This technology fair aims at introducing Padlet - a "free web-based application that provides a wall that allows posting words, pictures, and even videos, which can be viewed by anyone with a link or address to the specific wall" (Rashid, Yunus, & Wahi, 2019, p. 613). It is also a platform that stimulates students to actively participate in their learning and collaborate in various activities (Dembo& Bellow, 2013; Fuchs, 2014; Ellis, 2015). Palet is recommended to be utilized as a vivid tool to improve students' engagement and performance in classroom activities. Keywords-Padlet, Virtual Learning Environment, Active Learning, Application Engagement/Interaction

Sep 17, 2022 02:40 PM - 03:25 PM(Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh)
Venue : Techfair (Stage at Meeting Hall No. 2)
20220917T1440 20220917T1525 Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh Enhancing English Classroom Engagement Through Padlet as an Effective Learning Tool

Abstract Over the past two years, the world has been under an ongoing global pandemic of Coronavirus 19 that has affected almost sectors, especially education. Schools closed and transitioned from face-to-face classrooms to some kinds of virtual education set up at home. Many versatile online teaching tools have been tested to support online teaching to create a virtual learning environment with features that would keep learners engaged, interact and help them experience closest to the real environment, one of them is the Padlet application. This technology fair aims at introducing Padlet - a "free web-based application that provides a wall that allows posting words, pictures, and even videos, which can be viewed by anyone with a link or address to the specific wall" (Rashid, Yunus, & Wahi, 2019, p. 613). It is also a platform that stimulates students to actively participate in their learning and collaborate in various activities (Dembo& Bellow, 2013; Fuchs, 2014; Ellis, 2015). Palet is recommended to be utilized as a vivid tool to improve students' engagement and performance in classroom activities. Keywords-Padlet, Virtual Learning Environment, Active Learning, Application Engagement/Interaction

Techfair (Stage at Meeting Hall No. 2) VietTESOL International Convention 2022 convention@viettesol.org.vn
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