week 11: Mobile phones

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The article required for this week: Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom by Hayo Reinders, give us some advices to use mobile phones in a second language classroom. There are different ways to use our mobile phone as a useful tool to made activities with our students. Cellphones today are indispensable and very popular of course, therefore, is a good idea to use them not only to communicate, have fun through social networks, but they have become a took for the development of our studies because the offer options, for example, exchange ideas and work together using the chat, record audios,videos, download and store information, among other. As we know, these days mobile phones are used everywhere by everyone, and students are not the exception. They ae constantly sending text messages outside the classroom, taking pictures, etc. as teachers; we have to take advantages of these activities.

 In conclusion, mobile phones give us a lot of tools to use with our students in classes and is our responsability as teachers be actualized with the future applications .

week 10: Collaborates Skills

I really enjoyed this article and I had learnt a lot. The article for this week was “Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis” by Paul Sze. What is a wiki?  A wiki is an online platform in which anyone can add information and edit information that has been previously added by others. The author provides a good description of the task that he assigned to the class, the manner that they worked in it and finally, of the results obtained. The author also provides some other examples in which collaborative writing can be applied using wikis. Something that really like from the article was that the teachers provides a clearly description of the task, the steps of the creative process, the prompts and the responses of the students to a challenging task, also I learned that students can feel satisfied with a result as a wiki, in which not only their classmates and teachers, but also their friends, relatives, and literally anybody can appreciate their final work.

As a conclusion, I really love this reading because it shows new techniques to write and collaborates skills the articles were interesting and that the habit of writing a blog has helped you improve this skill.

week 8:technology to enhance Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary

The articles required for this week, gave us an important point of view about vocabulary and the use online dictionaries in a foreign language, also Call and technological resources can help learners to improve their vocabulary.

The first article, “Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension (TESL-TEFL)” Gave possibilities with help of technology to enhance vocabulary. The author states some examples of studies that have been part of the process of stimulate vocabulary and reading, and its results, also learning vocabulary is an important aspect of acquisition and academic achievement and it is vital to reading comprehension. The learning process helps students to improve their goals as learners.

The second article “Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning”.  Talked about the use of online dictionaries, also we as teachers should teach about the several online dictionaries especially designed for learners. I did not know about the many options that learners have to clarify doubts or know about different words, also the author provides examples of type of dictionaries, and everyone can access to them.

In conclusion, there are technological tools that  help learners to improve their knowledge of the language, and as teachers is our responsibility involve and help students with technology.