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