Wee: 15

How we can use technology to provide feedback

 There are a lot of benefits for online teachers to use that kind of technology because it allow you to record the screen of your own computer, make a videos and records your voice. Also, there are some examples how online teachers can use it for feedback: 

·         Screen capture and feedback: teacher can use Microsoft Work and mark

The advantage of this approach are pretty obvious because if teacher create a video for give feedback to students. They can see and watch the correction in the same time and teacher can ask about the homework. Furthermore, learners can have feedback about written work in their native language especially if the teachers have a monolingual class.

Students and teachers never meet because this is one of the benefits that exits, and it can make the feedback very personal for example: If students have problems with a grammar point or with some vocabulary, you could easily open up Microsoft Word, write out the rule or vocabulary you want to explain and then record yourself going through it. There is almost no limit to the number of ways the tool can be used.

Rate: 5 

  

 

Week: 14

The importance of a classroom discussion

Something really interesting that called my attention about this reading is the benefits that the teachers have in a classroom discussion. Is the teacher create a communicative class, students have the opportunity to participate and ask or answer questions along the class. Also, for students participate can be interesting because there is more motivation for them, and they can hear other point of their classmates. Teacher can ask to students good questions about the topic. Thus, students are engaged with the discussion. On the other hand, Participation provides the teacher feedback. When students answer or try to explain, teachers can see the extent of their understanding, and if it is necessary teachers can help to students. Students know something about the importance of certain ideas and information, and participations can show what happen in class, and teacher can control it how much they talk. Furthermore, Participation encourages dialogue among and between students—Students can be asked to comment on what another student has said.

Students can develop their public communication skill, and they can participation gives students the chance to practice using a different vocabulary. For that reason a classroom discussion is really important.

Rate: 5

week: 12

The benefits that project work has in a second languages learners

Something that called my attention about this reading was the importance that project work has in foreign language classrooms with this method the students are actively engaged in formation gathering, processing, and reporting over a period of time.  On the other hand, for teachers this technique is really useful because students can grow themselves. And they can development their own knowledge, and become more independent of the teacher for example:                                                                                                 

·         Students can practice all the skills in one project and show their abilities

·         Focuses on real-work subject matter that can sustain the interest of the students   

·         Is process and product oriented, with an emphasis on integrated skills and end-of-project refection

·          requires student collaboration and, at the same time, some degree of student autonomy and independence

Also, there are some examples how students can work in a project like: interviewing, letter writing and library searches. Thus, they will be able to use vocabulary and analyzed about the topic in the same time, and all the rest of the class can participate. On the other hand, it is really important that teachers make feedback at the conclusion of the project and at other critical junctures as well.

Rate: 4

Week: 11

Ideas for using Mobile Phones in the language classroom

This reading was really interesting because it important to know that the technology play a big role in the education with the huge range of mobile phones that exist the students have the opportunity to use whatever application to learn and practice a second language. For do that there are a lot of Apps where the students can record their voice, listen pronunciation and practice with exercises. Furthermore, Students can practice inside and outside the classroom because phones are social tools that facilitate authentic and relevant communication and collaboration among learners. On the other hand, the role of the teachers have to be clear and relevant when students can use their cellphone and which the purpose is. For example: teachers have to sure what skill students have to practice like

·         Reading: students can read an article

·         Speaking: students can recode their voice

·         Listening: listened one conversation and talk about it

·         Writing: write an article about whatever topic

There are a lot of Apps to increase the students’ knowledge. Also, all the ideas that  the document offers increased opportunities for language learning by taking advantage of a tool that students are intimately familiars with and carry around at all times.

Rate: 5

week: 10
The advantage that wiki offer for teacher and students.

This new article is really interesting because it about the benefit that students and teachers have when they use WIKI. This is other tool that technology offers for learners, but what is WIKI? It is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime they want.  It is thus a great tool for online collaborative writing activities. Teachers can use this website for different project s.

There are a lot of benefits that Wiki offer students and teachers for example:

ü  Organization with the projects

ü  Interaction

With Wiki share opinions and interact with classmate is easy and you can do it in an organize way. On the others hand, teachers can use this website for different homework assignment like:

ü  Book repots: students can write their own repots and share it with the class

ü  Poetry: students can write poetry and comments others

ü  School history : students can write history and teachers can check the grammar

ü  Quizzes: students or teachers can create quizzes for students and they can answer in the website.

Teachers have to find tools to become the classes interesting. Also,They have to motivate to students to use technology.

Rate: 5

Week: 8

The importance of vocabulary and dictionaries in reading comprehension

Something interesting that call my attention about this article was the importance of the technology in second languages learners, but it really important mention that the dictionaries play a very important role by learners. Also, nowadays there is a great variety of dictionaries on line where students can find a lot of benefits like: pronunciation guides, extra grammar and vocabulary exercises, picture dictionaries and wildcard functions. This becomes more interested by learners when they use this king of tool. Also, students can use the dictionaries depending in their level, and their interested.

The vocabulary in second language learners is very important because if the students acquire vocabulary they increase their knowledge, and they will able to development all the skills in a good way also they will have a good reading comprehension. On the other hand, teachers are able to use different menthols to teach vocabulary in a class using computers I a class. Also, the multimedia glossing has a lot of benefits for reading comprehension and, consequently, for L2/FL vocabulary acquisition. In the conclusion, Vocabulary plays an important part in reading comprehension and techniques that are useful for vocabulary development (such as multimedia glossing) also benefit reading comprehension, and vice versa.

Rate: 5

Week: 7

The importance of the technology in a writing skill for student’s second language.

Something that call my attention about this article was the importance that the technology has for second languages learners and how it helps them to development all the skills because the technology advance every day and offers a lot of benefits for students and teachers with the big range of  apps and online pages. Students can practice their previous knowledge writing different kind of documents for example: letter to a friends, activities that they did in the last vacations, a description for a person, a description of a festival/ceremony or whatever kind of paragraph, also teachers and students can create a count in the wed and share the information. They can correct it themselves and teacher can give them feedback, if they have mistaken for that reason these kind of activities are really important for students because they activate their skills. On the other hand, teachers are able to use eutectic material for the classes, but they have to be very careful with it.

Rate: 5