Higher Education Commission - The Four Language Teaching Skills

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 Importance of Technology in Education
 David Crystal on Technology in Linguistics
 Interactive Software
 Web Technologies
 Blogs
 Webinars
 Virtual Worlds


 Teachers will not be replaced by technology
but teachers who don’t use technology will be
replaced by those who do .
 Sheryl Nussbaum Beach


 CALL (Computer Assisted language learning)
 IMLL (Internet mediated language learning)
 TELL (Technology Enhanced language
Learning)


Wepner & Kramar (1987) argue that such interactive software has ‘the unique
ability to create a dialogue with the user. This interactive feature encourages
students to become involved actively as they communicate what they are
learning’(p.61). In addition, pointing to another feature of interactive language
learning software, they explain that it is programmed to assess learners’
progress as well. Thus, a user not only can practice listening and speaking skills
but can also see how much progress he has made in learning these skills.

English learning interactive software can also help us learn English with fun. Such
interactive software are available in CDs and DVDs. They can also be downloaded
from the Internet. A number of companies have produced interactive software CDs
and DVDs for the learners such as Longman, Euro Talk, Merit, Oxford University Press
, the Learning Company and English Software. Some of the companies offer online
interactive English learning sessions. English interactive http://englishinteractive.net/
is one of them. With the interactive software, we can not only learn English but we
can test our own level of achievement. These DVDs and CDs are the result of years
of work and research in speech recognition and other areas of computational English.
The focus has been on how to make computers respond to human language.
Different pieces of software focus on different aspects of English language. There is
software for spelling and grammar, there is software for reading , there is software
for pronunciation. As the following image shows that we can measure our
pronunciation of English using the soft meter given to the right. In addition, there is

In simulated conversation, computer
gives the expressions for both the listener
and speaker. The software records your
simulated conversation with the
computer figure and you can listen to the
recorded conversation later. It gives a
good idea of real life conversation that
one may have with foreigners and native
speakers.

 Reading and writing blogs is a useful way of improving proficiency in a
foreign language. Erben et al (2008) explain that ‘the term blog is short
for ‘weblog’, a term coined by Jorn Barger in 1977 to describe Websites
that are updated continuously’. Blogs use modern CMS (content
management system) technology which lets ordinary people manage
and publish the content on websites in a simple way. Ward (2004) argues
that a blog ‘can be compared to a type of interactive public journal. A
blog is similar to an e-mail message in that any reader can reply to it, yet
it is different because it is published to the Internet’. He further explains
that ‘it is similar to an online forum. Moreover old postings are archived
and can be accessed by readers’. (as cited in Erben et al, 2008. p.22) .
Blogging has made publishing your ideas and concepts as easy as a few
clicks. Students can design their blogs based on the content of the topics
in their studies. Making a blog can be given as an assignment. For
example, the researcher made this blog on the topic of this Study.

 Among the well-known virtual worlds are
 Second Life
 Kiwi heroes
 Handipoints
 Miamiopia
 Active worlds
 3D planets
 There and Twinity
 More and more virtual worlds are being created.
These virtual worlds offer educational activities as well
as social activities which include gaming, sports, and
fashion, music and business activities.

Games


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