Week 11: Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom.
The reading for this week presents different ideas for using mobile phones in classroom. Something that made me want to read more about this article was that it describes 20 practical ways to use mobile phones to support second language learning. The author mentions that students nowadays have more access to a phone than a computer and that they prefer using their phones instead.
As
teachers, it is important to have your goals set or what you are trying to
achieve when you will use this tool with your students. You have to think if
you want to teach any particular skill such as listening, reading or speaking
so that the learning process really takes place.
Some of the
activities the text mentions are quite impressive that will support and
contribute in students’ learning process when using the phone for example: use
the notes features to collect vocabulary, use the text messaging feature, use
the mobile phone to keep a blog, use the mobile phone for microblogging on
Twitter and some others.
On the
other hand, there may be some barriers or problems when using mobile phones and
some of them are that not all students may have a phone, the cost of mobiles
phones and access to Internet, also increased teacher workload for example if
the teacher has to reply to all student who may send messages.
All in all, the use of phones to support second language learning exceeds the cons of applying this method in the classroom.
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