iBookTalker: An Approach to Facilitate Students’ Language Learning from Reading to Creating and Sharing

Abstract

In this paper, we propose d a practical model of language learning which combined 3 kinds of activities: reading, creating, and sharing. Students need to read some books, create their own products, and share them. In particularly, this model incorporates voluminous reading and sustained creating into substantial sharing in order to develop the students’ competence of language. Based on this model, we developed a learning environment , entitled iBookTalker. In iBookTalker environment, students play the role of booktalkers; they can recommend their favorable book freely through richly varied expressions, such as drawing form, written form, and oral form. That is, students will be transformed from a reader into a creator.