ICT

ICT

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

Emancipate them from the traditional teacher-tolearner (or expert-to-non-expert) knowledge transfer paradigms.

The ICT most commonly used for language pedagogy are:

THE WEB

Is the most generative in terms of language learning methodologies and techniques

The web as a resource

The web as medium

- Sites that offer material produced for native speakers

- Material not written for the Internet, directly and abridged form, example: song lyrics, books, film scripts and some journal articles all fall into this category.

- Material not written originally for the Internet but adapted for it example: newspapers and journals.

- Material written specifically for the Internet example: government sites, medical, financial and tourist information, and so on

- The web is a great resource for harnessing the teachable moment

- News medium

- Web sites or sites that offer practice with interactive exercises and activities for language learning.

- To turn of web as resource to web as medium we need onine interaction

Culture on the web

- The web as invaluable resources and texts of cultural products.

- Offer virtual travelling, To know cultural information, heritage, Folklore and recipes.

-The Web reproduces cultural products.

EMAIL

Is the best form of electronic communication

For languge learning is easy, and consist Human toHuman comunication

PEDAGOGY ACTIVITIES

- Discussion lists: Based in a forum of a specific subject.

- Tandem Learning: Interaction between different tongue or L1. Learners are responsible for their own and their partners learning. partnerships between institutions.

Currency of Email: Written and oral discourse apparent interactiveness.

- Culture Email: Emais is a great equaliser and is a inavaluable medium to exchange cultural information.

CORPORA AND CONCORDACING

The corpus is a computer database storing a collection of texts.

Concordancer is the program which manipulates the database.

The corpus offer the wherewithal to check prescriptive grammar rules,

DDL(Date Definition Language) task allow.

- Deducing meaning from context.

- Distinguishing meaning and usages.

- Inferring gender prefeferences for a word.

- Inferring the pragamtics of word/phrases.

- Reseaching and writing a dictionary definition.

-Checking grammar rules.