This week's article was about Integrating the Internet into English Language Teaching. What surprised in this article was that less than 35 percent of the world's population is able to get online. That is an incredible number that caught my attention, meaning that the majority of people in the world is able to get online. Teachers can take advantage of this fact since using Internet in the classroom is benefitial in many ways, because it increases learner motivation, engage learners into the class and promotes learners autonomy which will help them to be conscious of their learning process.
In addition when making use of the Internet in the class you can search on the website for different activities to practice vocabulary, grammar and listen to podcasts that will help student improve their pronunciation and listening skills.The text also mentions that will help students being more creative and will foster communication and collaboration.
Something that made me want to read more about this article is that even if you do not have access to the Internet you still have options to facilitate learning.You can use authentic material that means material not created specifically for language teaching or semi authentic materials which are created for language learning purposes by non native speakers of English.
On the other hand, it is interesting the fact that there may be some limits for the use of Internet in the class as the text quotes “the evidence that technology has a direct beneficial impact on linguistic outcomes is slight and inconclusive." This citation is something that makes you think and creates doubts about if the Internet is really been helpful in the classroom or not. I consider that with more findings and investigations will be able to determine if it is accurate or not, otherwise the use of the Internet in the class has helped in a big way.
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ResponderEliminarHello criss¡¡ I really liked your post because you included how the importance the internet has become for the teachers At the time to teach a class, also because you mentioned the percent of the people who don't have internet, but that with the teachers help they might use the material that is in the internet without any problem. Moreover, something that really called my attention was when you comment that with the internet teachers have the possibility to teach their classes in a different way.
ResponderEliminarI really liked your analysis Chris. Something I highly agree with you is when you and the author said that the internet has had a great impact in classrooms but it is uncertain if it is really helping or not. In my opinion, internet is making teaching of languages easy, we can use it to upload exercises or extra material to our students. However, we need to make our students aware about the use of this valuable resource, we need to tell them to use it in a good way, what do you think about this?
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