Cristian Alberto Menjívar Alemán
Week 6: Speaking and Listening Online: A Survey of Internet Resources
This week’s
article talks about some of the online activities that can be used in ESL/EFL
classrooms. It also mentions about the benefits and limitations of these new
technologies and how they are making a contribution to learn the target
language.
Something very useful from this article is that it presents a variety of different links and activities that can be used with students to practice listening and speaking skills, the majority of websites are for free and some others may have a fee. However you can try these activities in order to help your students’ learning, they include tasks as multiple choices, gap filling exercises, comprehension exercises and some others.
Something that made me want to read more about the article was that there is also some other interactive communication activities such as such as live chat and instant messaging, they can text messages in real life, and is something that we are not that accustomed to. These chat sessions also allow you to use audio and video and is pretty good because you have the chance to interact most of the time with native speakers.
There may
be some limitations when using the Internet as a resource for these activities,
and is that a good and stable connection is required; otherwise you may be interrupt
while performing the activities, also the audios or videos may present technical
issues or another may be that the servers are down.
What I learned from this article was that learners have opportunities to interact and negotiate meaning, they will also interact with an authentic audience and can receive feedback to improve in the areas of opportunity.
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Hello Cristian! I totally agree with you when you talk about interactive communication activities, since today we have so many ways of communicating with people and we can use all these tools in teaching because it makes it easier for us to do a homework assignment without having to write it on the notebook but recording a video, audio or video call. Teachers can easily leave a task, for example: recording a video asking the students to solve an activity, research or practice what is learned in the classroom so that the teacher from their computer can listen to them and tell them that they have failed and that they have to improve.
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