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