Technology
Technology is become very important for now a day. Technology in language teaching is not new. Indeed, technology has been around in language teaching for decades one might argue for centuries, if we classify the blackboard as from of technology. Technology is using for the learners more and more.
As access to Information and Communication Technology has became more widespread, so Computer Assisted Language Learning has moved beyond the use of computers programs to embrace the use of the INTERNET and web-based tools.
The Technology needed to use Internet for teaching is relatively limited and the chances of something going wrong are greatly reduced over more complex technology approaches such as attempting to carry out live chat or video-conferencing sessions.
Internet is the connection with others people in the world and the teachers can implement in the classroom. Technology-based activities the teachers can do by printing off materials include:
Using Websites: is one of the easiest and least stressful ways of getting started with technology in the classroom. The Web is a source of content which can be used as a window on the wider world outside your class, and is a readily available collection of authentic material.
Internet-based project work especially web-quests offline: a natural progression from using individual web pages and websites in the classroom is to move on to online project work. They are structure way for teacher to begin to incorporate the Internet into the language classroom. They are group activities. The use of project encourages cooperative learning, and therefore simulates interaction. They can be use simply for language learning purposes and provide greater motivation for the learner. Learners are not required to simply regurgitate information they find, but have to transform that information in order to achieve task.
E-mail key-pal projects using the teacher’s email account: key-pal is the term for pen-pals who use email to communicate and describes below is a project between two groups of key-pal who are learning English in different countries. Email provides a simple and effective way of putting learners in touch with other learners of the same age and level in others parts of the world.
Using class blog: the most common type of blog is kept by one person, who will regularly post comments, thoughts, analyses, experiences of daily life, interesting links, jokes or any other form of content, to a web page. Blogs may consist of written text only, or they may include pictures or photos, photo blogs, or even audio and video.
Using online: Dictionaries and thesauruses.
& Dictionaries: using bilingual semi-bilingual or monolingual learner’s dictionaries in paper or electronic form.
& Thesauruses: are more suited to the intermediate and advanced levels than to the elementary or pre-intermediate levels.
Electronically produced materials printed out for learners: talking about information resources, exercises and activities that you can create yourself and which your students use on a computer as web page or CO-ROM content, or even in printed form.
PAGES OF INTERNET
The basic services that present through Internet are:
: The World Wide Web (Web or WWW): including information texts, pictures, sounds and videos.
: Email: let to exchange written messages between two or more persons, without papers.
: The Chats: let to keep a communication between people at the same time.
: To enter a “foros” of debate and groups of news.
: To Exchange of archives or FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
: Telnet: you can connect to Internet from other place.
THE SEARCHERS
There are Web pages to specialize doing index of page. In the Searchers you introduce une or some word, and give you the Web directions. The most popular are Google, Yahoo, AltaVista o Lycos, and there are specific pages in Spanish how Ozú or Olé.
"I think that the technology is impotant, because it can help us to improve the world and discover a lot of things that we don't know"
