miércoles, 26 de noviembre de 2008

LEARNING LANGUAGES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

Learning Languages through Technology is a book edited by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Sarah Rilling. In this web page, it is recall the influence of the technology in a class setting. It mentions that nowadays with the big impact that technology has, it is a good tool to instruct and reinforce knowledge. On the page, there are some advices to use technology for administrative and teaching duties, where The teacher uses the computer for administrative or organizational functions such as planning a lesson, creating exams, arranging meetings, and sending or receiving messages with information about the lesson. It also mentions that the use of technology may be blended, with students face-to-face doing the activities or distance through a full online class interaction. This is a very interesting page, where people can learn more about simple tasks to use the technology and when to apply it.

3 comentarios:

Camila Serrano dijo...

Technology plays an important role in teaching a language, I thing this topic is very interesting and also useful for us!!

Lina dijo...

I think the use of technology in teaching a second language is a really good tool, the important part is we as teachers learn how to use it, trying to obtain all the benefits it can give us, and the way students can get good results by using it.
A very nice blog, your post are interesting and they have relationship with this subject.

German Bermúdez Cuesta dijo...

Technology is important these days in teaching whatever subject, and it is more useful for us who teach languages