Using computers in language learning materials is very important today because the world changed a lot about making technology education have changed over the years to help the students to keep up with age.
And today there has been improvement Maria taught by students that focus on self-study more. The instructor will provide you with software packages for students to learn.
And learning through the computer as a medium that students want to learn more. This will help to remember and have fun in as more real.
So now it has learned through media, instructional technology more.
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A Brief History of Technology and Language Learning
Virtually every type of language teaching has had its own technologies to support it. Language teachers who followed the grammar-translation method (in which the teacher explained grammatical rules and students performed translations) relied on one of the most ubiquitous technologies in U.S. education, the blackboard?a perfect vehicle for the one-way transmission of information that method implied. The blackboard was later supplemented by the overhead projector, another excellent medium for the teacher-dominated classroom, as well as by early computer software programs which provided what were known as "drill-and-practice" (or, more pejoratively, "drill-and-kill") grammatical exercises.
In contrast, the audio-tape was the perfect medium for the audiolingual method (which emphasized learning through oral repetition). University language classes in the 1970s and '80s usually included obligatory sessions at the audio lab where students would perform the dreaded repetition drills.
By the late 1970s, the audiolingual method fell into disrepute, at least in part due to poor results achieved from expensive language laboratories. Whether in the lab or in the classroom, repetitive drills which focused only on language form and ignored communicative meaning achieved poor results.
The 1980s and 1990s have seen a shift toward communicative language teaching, which emphasizes student engagement in authentic, meaningful interaction. Within this general communicative trend, we can note two distinct perspectives, both of which have their implications in terms of how to best integrate technology into the classroom. These can roughly be divided into cognitive approaches and sociocognitive approaches.
http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/warschauer_m/tslt.html
In contrast, the audio-tape was the perfect medium for the audiolingual method (which emphasized learning through oral repetition). University language classes in the 1970s and '80s usually included obligatory sessions at the audio lab where students would perform the dreaded repetition drills.
By the late 1970s, the audiolingual method fell into disrepute, at least in part due to poor results achieved from expensive language laboratories. Whether in the lab or in the classroom, repetitive drills which focused only on language form and ignored communicative meaning achieved poor results.
The 1980s and 1990s have seen a shift toward communicative language teaching, which emphasizes student engagement in authentic, meaningful interaction. Within this general communicative trend, we can note two distinct perspectives, both of which have their implications in terms of how to best integrate technology into the classroom. These can roughly be divided into cognitive approaches and sociocognitive approaches.
http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/warschauer_m/tslt.html
Using technology in the classroom
I find the use of technology in the classroom amazing. It offers great visual aids as well as listening and reading inputs through powerpoint presentations, for instance. For small groups, I think using a laptop is a great resource. It offers you the possibility of playing audio and video files, showing images, recording voice for pronunciation practice and internet site contents to add relevance to the class. For larger groups, the interactive whiteboard is ideal. However, a great teacher should be able to teach a great class with and without any resources at all. I believe technology offers tools to teachers if it's well used and we must not forget that tools without great content and interaction do not offer good quality teaching. What do you think about it? What's your experence with technology in the classroom?
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/carladelia/using-technology-classroom
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/carladelia/using-technology-classroom
Teaching English with Technology (new site)
Teaching English with Technology (TEwT) is a free online double-blind peer-reviewed journal that seeks to disseminate cutting-edge work focussed mainly on how technology is being used, or could be used, in TESOL (Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages).
The Journal is interested in theoretical and practical articles that resonate with the international audience. TEwT occasionally publishes special issues of which some are in more specialised areas of technology use in language education or education in general.
The Journal encourages its members to exchange ideas via blog, email, forum, wiki or member-message exchange. TEwT recognises that focused social networking might also be an effective way of keeping abreast of some of the issues relevant to technology use in TESOL today.
TEwT aims to provide an up-to-date technology resource mainly for TESOL teachers. TEwT strongly believes that all its papers should be free to access.
http://www.tewtjournal.org/
The Journal is interested in theoretical and practical articles that resonate with the international audience. TEwT occasionally publishes special issues of which some are in more specialised areas of technology use in language education or education in general.
The Journal encourages its members to exchange ideas via blog, email, forum, wiki or member-message exchange. TEwT recognises that focused social networking might also be an effective way of keeping abreast of some of the issues relevant to technology use in TESOL today.
TEwT aims to provide an up-to-date technology resource mainly for TESOL teachers. TEwT strongly believes that all its papers should be free to access.
http://www.tewtjournal.org/
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