Technology to enhance the students´ reading and vocabulary

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According to what I read in the articles “Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension” and “ Online English – English learner dictionaries boost word learning” I realized that by applying technology to vocabulary and reading comprehension, students can get a significant knowledge in these two aspects of language. Although reading is an important skill that involves the reader, the reader needs to know the vocabulary of what he/she is reading; so, why don’t we use technology to enhance these two important aspects of language? Technology has a lot of benefit at the time of learning but this time we are focusing on reading comprehension and vocabulary, so here we have some ways to enhance the reader’s skill. When students are reading, technology can reinforce their vocabulary through the application of online dictionaries because this can be very useful at the time of reinforcing the learning o words; in order to do that, teachers have to encourage students to be more strategic word learners by selecting dictionaries with the best word frequency features. Moreover, we have more techniques that teachers can apply on students in order to reinforce their vocabulary such as collocations, using authentic examples and topical vocabulary. Despites all that, we have the use of multimedia for vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, there are some ways to enhance the students’ vocabulary and reading skill such as using multimedia glosses which is interaction of a media software with learners in order to improve the vocabulary acquisition. To conclude, we can say that technology is such a useful tool to enhance the reading and vocabulary that teachers should apply these techniques in their classrooms.

Cooperative Learning and online tools to enhance the writing skill

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According to what I read in the articles “Process Writing and the Internet: Blogs and Ning Networks in the Classroom” and “Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis” I realized that there are a lot of ways to enhance the writing skill in students such as blogs that are used to post information by authors. Also, we can apply networking sites in order to enhance students’ writing skill, the networking provides tools that allows the users to upload videos, photos, etc. to their profile. I personally think that updating information either by blogs or networking is very useful to motivate students to write and share the writings in an interactive way which is something interesting and motivating for students. Moreover, we have the wiki that is a website that allows students to edit the information posted at any time they want; therefore, students are able to practice a cooperative learning by writing because students have the opportunity to modify and correct what have been written; therefore, everybody cooperates in order to get a good result.

Internet resources as an alternative to motivate and encourage students to write

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According to what I read in the articles “ Using the internet in the ESL classroom” and “Using internet-based children’s literature to teach EFL” I can say that by applying internet resources in English second language classroom we can improve students’ writing skills by encouraging them to write very interest writings such as letters, paragraphs, essays, reviews, etc. writing might be a complicated skill for students because they do not feel motivated to write but by applying internet resources we can enhance the students’ writing. Internet resources applied to writing may be a convenient way because students have some interesting options such as publishing their writings in a classrooms’ website which may motivate students as well. Also, we there are a lot of resources that teachers could use in an English Second Language Classroom that might change students’ point of view about writing because those resources are an alternative to make the reading experience a rewarding activity. Even though internet resources may be a big help to encourage students to write, I think that web resources should not be used all the time because teachers have the ability to enrich the class’ context

The importance of using video and audio technology in the second language classroom and its effects on the speaking skill.

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According to what I have read in the articles “Using original video and sound effects to teach English” and “The employment of CALL in teaching/foreign language speaking skills”, I can say that by applying media tools into the second language classroom, students have the opportunity to do a meaningful improvement on his/her speaking and listening skills. The application of media in listening and speaking exercises may intensify the student’s practice therefore the students will be confident and engaged at the time of participating in a conversation which is one of the most important aspect of a language. Moreover, students have the option to practice speaking through pronouncing dictionaries that uses a voice recognition software in which words and sentences are pronounced by native speakers. Also, we have the option to use videos in the second language classroom will not only entertain the students but it will engaged the students into the topic by creating an interactive classroom which includes videos with creative context. To conclude, I would like to infer that as a teachers we have the chance to apply a lot of technological tools into the classroom but videos and audios are a suitable way to make students participate and practice in the second language classroom.