Monday, January 23, 2017

                     WEEK 1:    THE IMPORTANCE  OF THE TECHNOLOGY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING 


Before reading the article “Computers  and  language  learning”, I had never  read   about  different  techniques and methods of using technology  to teach a  new language; so  for me  before reading this, students acquired the language with old strategies.  but now  I overturned my mind, especially because  I realized that with this tool  we us futures teachers have the opportunity to use the computer in different ways  at the time to teach  our classes . Especially because we can make different extra ordinaries activities to make, students have a different learning process.
Furthermore, with a computer students might be able to handle different types of of tools to improve their skills and practice the ones, which are the most difficult for them, forgetting about the old methods like memorizing concepts, and coping just the concept without practicing.  Another  thing is that the   call program  has become  a big help  to improve  the writing process for the students   because computers have adding  spectaculars  tools  to make better pre-writing, and spelling  using a diversities of dictionaries online, translators, and a lot of spellings  programs. Therefore, this is a help for the student’s to practice their grammar, spelling and writing. Besides this, with the technology, teach different tools to teach in a different way with an amanganzy innovation form which might help students to learn in a different way.
 
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Week 2 : Students Discovering Their Skills to be Improved


Discovering what areas need to  be improved might be  a challenge for the students at the time to learn a new  language.

However, I think that it would be a good idea for us like futures teachers to let our students do assessments  in order to make them think if the material and the activities that we might be using in our classes are being useful or useless for their performers. Besides this, I consider that teachers are required to motivate students to continue working on things that are not working well or have defiance, and give them all the necessary tools to improve the areas in which they have dificulties to learn.Fortunately, with the tecnology students have the opportunity to have a better learning process because with it they can find differents type of exersises to practice more and more with a lot of activities. For the teachers will also be a help because they might create some extra activities in a different way In conclusion, From 1 to 5 I would rate this article with 5 because I think Students are required to discover what things, they have to do to improve their learning process and identify what is the best way for them to learn. 
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Week 3: Improving Listening In a different Way 


In my opinion developing, the listening skill has been difficult for students during years, especially because this skills has not been taught with innovate meths. Therefore, this skill struggle students at the time to understand and analyses the audios, and  if the teachers do not change the way to teach  this , it will continue being difficult to develop this skill for the students. However, something that calls my attention  about the article was the new method to teach that has been created to make students to understand real conversations and difficult words in the listenings. Unfortunately, teachers rarely  uses this meths  because they still believe  that with their old techniques such as using old cassettes and making students fill out their books, they are helping their students to understand better the audios. When there are other  exceptional tools such as podcast to use  in which students can practices their listening in a better way.

Therefore, If I get the opportunity to teach listening, I would like to do it with podcast instead of using cassette because with podcasts I may help my students improve their listening faster, and it might help them to communicate to each other from others countries.
 To conclude, I consider that including podcasts in listening classes, students are allow to learn with pleasure forgetting old strategies that teachers used to use in their classes.

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7 comments:

  1. Hello Violeta! :)
    I really ejoyed reading your post because I think that nowadays the technology has become important to develop student’s skill because with this students have the opportunity to improve their areas in which they need to. In the case of us as future teachers is a new opportunity to develop our classes in a different way using different kind of devices at the time to teach our classes. And something that really call my attention was that with the technology students have the opportunity o performed the writings with a lot of type of methods and techniques for getting about old ways to teach like the ones that has been teaching during these year before.

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  2. I agree with Gabriela. The use of technology improves the learning process not only for students, but also for the teachers. It helps to have a more interactive class with everyone's participation. Also, technology promotes students interest in the lesson and in the target language, and it helps to be interested in the acquisition of their language. Moreover, educators can find with the use of apps or any other resources that involved the technology types of activities gets students’ attention, and make students to concentrate more. As a result, teachers use some creative techniques to increase the motivation of students; so that, they feel eager to know and practice their abilities.

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  3. Hello Violeta. Thanks for pointing out how the ICT tools help improve the writing skills. I definitly agree with you. Have you felt specifically benefited with this aspect of CALL? How? When?

    Don't forget to write the corresponding week of your log. For example, this is Week 1.

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    1. this has helped me when I was taking grammar and writting classes, because I used to practice with exersises online using the tecnology in a positive way.

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