Little known feature in Microsoft Word, largely because it’s so expertly hidden. There’s a whole load of programmes and browser extensions available for text expansion, here are a few that I think would be useful for students: Microsoft Word Autotext When filling out the endless online forms required of them by the university or their embassy or the NHS, they can quickly access home addresses, phone numbers and ID numbers without having to go searching for them.īy using these shortcuts, EAP students will buy themselves more time to focus on the important things such as actually concentrating on their lectures/writing rather than spending needless time typing the same phrases again and again and fretting about whether it’s correct or not.
#HOW TO USE CHROME AUTO TEXT EXPANDER SERIES#
When writing emails to their tutors or fellow students, they could have a series of templates ready, especially if they find themselves writing the same things again and again (dear Professor…, I’m writing to explain why I wasn’t able to attend the seminar yesterday).When taking lecture notes, they could use quickly access pre-fabricated phrases such as this important because, what this means for …….is.When writing essays, they could quickly type/access commonly used phrases such as on the other hand, according to or there are clear differences between.You can begin to see the ways that this might be useful for EAP students: Or maybe you find yourself needing your work address frequently for online forms and you could go to a browser extension that would automatically copy and paste that for you. Or typing a text message, the letters omwh would become on my way home. To give a few examples of what I mean: for common email replies, you could type the letter tyem and that would automatically expand to thank you very much for the prompt reply to my email.
This can be done through copy/paste or through a shortcut. This term covers a whole range of tech tools and services but in short it’s the ability to save and retrieve commonly used text chunks through your browser, computer or mobile device. One rarely explored area that can really help them is text expansion.
#HOW TO USE CHROME AUTO TEXT EXPANDER SOFTWARE#
Things such as using reference management software to make the collection and annotation of articles easier and to quickly generate bibliographies better search skills so they can more effectively find the source materials they need for their research or just using something like Google Docs so they can continue to work on their writing regardless of the computer or device they have I front of them. Reading articles, taking notes on lectures, writing essays: all these things will take twice as long for them and will demand twice as much mental energy.īut as a technologist, I can help give them shortcuts that will make it easier to do some of these tasks. Linguistically, they are always going to have to work twice as hard as the native speakers on their university courses. As a learning technologist for EAP students, I see one of my main roles as helping level the playing field for them.
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