Wednesday, February 8, 2017

week 4: Integrated Internet in ELT





The article CALL Me … Maybe:  A Framework for Integrating the Internet into ELT by George M. Introduces a whole new level of CALL: the use of the internet in language teaching. I found this article informative and useful for many reasons. The main reason is that I realized what a great tool internet can be in order to support our lessons.


Something I learned from this article is that, internet has been used as an information technology, as a communication technology, and as a social and mobile technology. In addition, I learned that internet can help to increase learner motivation and reduce learner anxiety and it is an excellent idea reduces learner anxiety, engage learners, promote learner autonomy, and help in retention, that they remember what they have learned previously. Furthermore, something that every teacher should know is that depending on the level of access, internet can be used as a medium of instruction, or as a source of content.



As a conclusion, this article results helpful because it shows many different ways in which internet can become the best instrument while teaching a new language, the article also provides many examples of websites that can be useful for teachers and students, and it also introduces Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), providing some examples in which mobile devices can be properly used to support a lesson.
 

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