TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.

TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.

1. Learners’ Perceptions on the Use of Blogs for EFL Learning

   • Blogs are
     • A type of web application that displays serial entries with date and time stamps
     • becoming increasingly popular in education field
     • A way for developing reading and writing skills
     • Good for facilitate interaction and collaboration
     • Really beneficial for L2 learning
   • Positive and Present studies have shown that Blogs
     • Reading blogs help to improve English reading skills.
       • Their benefits are
         • New vocabulary, read in English faster and more fluently and better reading comprehension
     • Blogs improve English writing skills
       • Their benefits are
         • Write in English more fluently, better grammar, better sentence structure, think more carefully before writing.
     • Blogs are good for learning English collaboratively
       • Their benefits are
         • Interact with group members, discuss together, learn together, understand different viewpoints, make progress together and better team cohesiveness.

2. IN PURSUIT OF ALTERNATIVES IN ELT METHODOLOGY: WEBQUESTS

   • Webquests are
     • An inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web
       • They offer an opportunity to
         • Combine a wide range of effective instructional practices in one activity
         • Integrating technology
         • scaffolding
         • Collaborative learning
         • critical thinking
         • authentic assessment
         • Constructivism
     • Types of WebQuests
       • Short-term
       • Long term

3. Wiki technology and peer feedback

   • Wiki technology has emerged as an innovative Web 2.0 tool
     • • To
         • facilitate students’ English writing
           • Here community members can
             • Edit information
             • Update information
             • Remove information
             • The most significant features of a Wiki are
               • social function
                 • Distributed participation
                 • Distributed collaboration
                 • Wikis provide
                   • Flexibility
                   • Authenticity
     • Peer feedback
       • students offer comments on one another’s writing
         • in
           • Written formats
           • Oral ways
         • It helps students improve
           • Writing confidence
           • Writing quality

4. (ICT) into EFL Classroom Practice

   • ICT in teaching and learning has become an established activity worldwide.
     • ESL students can.
       • Continue language learning from home
       • Increase language develoment
   • ICT are useful accommodate all types of learners
     • Such as
       • visual learners
       • auditory learners
       • kinaesthetic learners
       • Read-write learners