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

Week: 6

Tools to development of speaking and listening online in languages learners

                       

This week the article is about “speaking and listening online a survey of internet resources” it was a nice article that presents a lot of tools that the internet offers for language learners to engage in communicative activities. On the other hand, Most of the time learners use apps or web pages to help them in to development their reading and writing skill, but it is not frequent that learners use it to development listening and speaking skill, because in some case is really new for students that exist that kind of tools that help them to practice listening even speaking only using the internet. Students can use different methods to practice these skills For example: audio, video, and computer-mediated communicative programs can help to the teachers and students to create different activities inside or outside the classroom.

There are a lot of web pages where students can practice these skills where students can do some activities like they can share videos, listening podcast, watching videos about news or recording their voice about a topic and share it. Also, learners have the opportunities to interact and negotiate meaning, students are involved in authentic tasks and learners can use it like a feedback.

Rate: 5 

Week: 5

Critical thinking

Something that call my attention about this article is how the technology like internet can help to students to think critically, and how the technology helps them to become active intellects and how students are able to understand ideas, to analyze, give their own conclusion and solve problems. On the other hand, Intrinsic is the abilities that students acquire along the learning´s process where learners acquire new knowledge in different way. The students start to learn intrinsically. For example:  they are independent, analytical and curious. Also, teachers have to look for the way of that each students learn intrinsically using different methods. One of the tool that learners can use is the internet because students can study themselves without the teachers and they can look for their benefits how increase their knowledge. Furthermore, there are a lot of challenge for teachers in some case not all the students acquire the ability to think intrinsically, but teachers must help to students to feel comfortable, to believe in their capacity to learn. Teachers have to ask questions that look for answers that help to the development of everyone. Also, I believe that students can use computers for learn the higher order cognitive skills of analysis synthesis, and evaluation.

Grate: 5

Week: 4

   

The integration of the internet in a language classroom

The integration of the internet in a classroom where students are learning a new language is becoming in an important tool, because it has a lot of benefit in the learning. Also, there are a lot of page on line or apps that are like tutors for each student and it is helping them to be more independence in a place where everyone can study in whatever time and look for the best method to acquire new knowledge using CALL. On the other hand, the use of internet is not available for all the students or for the teachers some of the disadvantage that exists are.  1. Not all the people have the capacitive to pay internet’s bill 2. The internet of this country is very slowly 3. Some teachers and students are not able to use technology because they do not have this kind of knowledge and the last point.  Not in all the areas of this country the internet is available. All this kind of problems stopping the development of acquire new tools. In the conclusion, the internet has many tools that can be used by students to learn a new knowledge, but it is really difficult that everyone can have internet available all the time or in whatever place.  

Grate: 5

Week: 3

                   The importance of the podcast in the development of listening skill

Something that I want to remember for this article is that Podcast is a tool very useful in an English classroom; consist in the use of videos and recording of native speakers to development the listening skill where students have to listen and in the same time they have to answer different questions. On the other hand, there are three stages that are important in the use of podcast Input salience, Enhanced input and Authenticity.

Podcast has the capacitive to spur of the second language listening, but it is a tool that the teachers have to manage very well, because is a blending of technology that it is becoming very popular over time.

Today with the huge range of technology the teachers can use podcast like a main tool to development listening skill and the students will be able to listening and see videos of native speakers. Thus, learns are more familiar with the accent and expressions, but it is important mention that in this country no all the colleges or places have the necessary technology to development a good class using this tool. Thus, this problem is becoming in a   disadvantage for each learner.

 Grade:  4

Week: 2

                                       The importance of ICTs in an English class

One part that call my attention about this research is the learning autonomy that students got along the one academic semester, also the integration of ICTs  tools and activities to foster awareness. On the other hand. This kind of methods together help to students to be more independent to the teachers and they can look at their own way how acquire new knowledge themselves using the computers and some activities like managing time, me as a learner, vocabulary game and parts of speech. Learners are able to study in house, but with a timetable every day.

Students who are allowed to set their own learning goals and analyze their own progress, because they have to study and practice outside the classroom, and they get the result in the same time that they finish all the activities. With this methodology students demanding activities and promote self-monitoring as well.

The role of the teacher is then critical in order to offer accompaniment, support and preparation. Also, in the classroom teacher can use computers and videos and students will be able to discuss and develop all the skill. In conclusion, Teachers have to provide all the necessary tools for a better learning to the students become more independent.

 Grate: 4

Monday, January, 23th 2017

       Week 1: All the benefits that CALL offer to the students of languages.

      Something I want to remember from this article is the importance of the technology in the education in the second language acquisition. The use of computers in the language classroom has increased every day with the range technology, new apps and internet. The role of the computers has become an important issue that helps to the students to have a better learning. On the other hand, CALL (computer-assisted language learning) looks for a different pedagogical approach in the topic of education because computers have been used for language teaching since some years ago, and this method has helped a lot of in the way for learning a new language For example: students are able to listen conversations of native speakers and students can chatting with people who are learning a new language or native speakers as well.

It really important for learners this kind of tools, because it has a lot of benefits that helps to improve the new language in a funny and interesting way .furthermore, learners can practice with many exercises that the new technology offers it. Also, CALL has different patterns that now people can learn a new language on line only using a computer and the internet. In conclusion, the technology will be always an important tool for students of languages.