Educational technology is a field of study that investigates the process of analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating the instructional environment and learning materials in order to improve teaching and learning. It is important to keep in mind that the purpose of educational technology is to improve education. We must define the goals and needs of education first and then we use all our knowledge, including technology, to design the most effective learning environment for students.

1. Educational Technology
Integrating Educational
Technology into Teaching
Boutkhil Guemide
University Mohammed Boudiaf,
M’sila
Algeria

2. Lecture outline
INTRODUCTION
Definition
Technology for support of learning,
instruction, and performance
Using technology to teach listening skill
Using technology to teach speaking &
pronunciation skill
Using technology to teach reading skill
Using technology to teach writing skill

3. INTRODUCTION
 In the 21st century, mentioning technology generally inspires thoughts of
advancement, improvement, and progress.
 On the contrary, the lack of technology stirs feelings towards a practice as
antiquated, ineffective, and clumsy.
 Over the past thirty years, educational technology has been integrated into
the classroom at alarming rates: The development of new technologies has
even been faster.
 The literature in the area of instructional technology is vast and sometimes
overwhelming: Often times, articles will focus on how to integrate technology
into the classroom and the recommendation of new technologies.
 Joseph Lowman: “It is better for college students to be active seekers than
passive recipients of learning; For students to be fully engaged in learning,
their attention must be focused on the material;” and “Students learn images
as well as words, and images are more easily remembered, especially if the
images are vivid and emotionally tinged.”
 Using these principles, instructors have sought technological means to

4. What is Educational Technology?
A broad term
Deals with the process of using technology for
education
Describes the technologies that facilitate access
to information of all types.
Acquisition, processing, storage, and
dissemination of information in all of its forms.
Evaluation, management, and integration of
education with technological tools available.

5. Educational Technology:Definition
 Educational technology is a complex concept: The
phenomenon of the 21st Century.
 “Educational Technology is the theory and practice
of design, development, utilization, management,
and evaluation of processes and resources for
learning”(Seels & Richie, 1994, p. 1).
 “Educational Technology is the study and ethical
practice of facilitating learning and improving
performance by creating, using, and managing
appropriate technological processes and resources”
(Januszewski & Molenda, 2008, p.2).

6. What is Educational Technology?
 Development of teaching and learning
 Applies theories of instruction, learning, behavioral and cognitive
psychology to assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation of
instructional material.
 Applies research, theory, technologies, and psychology to solve
instructional and performance problems.
 The particular approach used to achieve the ends of education.
 Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving
people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing
problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing
solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.
 “Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating
learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing
appropriate technological processes and resources” (AECT, 2007).

10. Technology for support of Learning, instruction, & performance
 Technology is an important tool to support English language teaching and learning
 Technology provides interaction between the teachers and the students, promotes communicative
activities, and offers real audiences and authentic materials.
 English language learning laboratories, CD player, television, computer and devices (smartphones,
iPods, iPads and tablets).
 It supplies comprehensible input and output: Students can understand easily the information
received and transmit it.
 Technology can support cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills: It helps students to develop the
abilities of thinking analytically.
 It utilizes task-based and problem solving.
 It provides sheltering techniques to support language and academic development, making it an
essential tool to support the progress in the academic area.
 It can facilitate focused practice for the development of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.
 It learning and teaching becomes more student-centered: Technology promotes students’ autonomy,
helping students feel more confident and independent.
 It uses multiple modalities to support a variety of learning styles and strategies.
 It increases motivation and self- esteem: Students feel more motivated to learn a foreign language.
 It can provide appropriate feedback and assessment.
 It can connect to the home and community: Through technology, teachers and students can
connect at any hour and anywhere and at the same time with friends and family around the
world.
 It can serve as a resource for content- based ESL and EFL instruction.
 It can provide professional development opportunities to teachers.

12. Using technology to teach listening skill
 Using technology as a listening tool is claimed to be one of the more important learning tools
for enhancing EFL students’ listening skill.
 It allows students to learn independently and to receive immediate feedback upon the
completion of tasks (Hoven,1999).
 Teaching/ and learning of listening using various media embedded in technology can enrich
the skill and help in producing better results. The use of technology also gives students the
opportunity to enhance language learning by bringing in the real world.
 Digitized speech and video, offered by the use of computer, can also be highly effective for
developing this important language skill.
 Using computer, with internet, also has plenty of benefits for developing listening: Such use
can provide so many authentic audio and video resources to listen and to develop the
associated language skills.
 There are so many useful websites like which offer innumerable listening exercises, for
learning and testing listening skill for free.
 This kind of multimedia-based model of EFL instruction in listening comprehension skill has
been advocated by many researchers (Hoven, 1999; Plass and Jones, 2005).
 In addition to the widest variety and greatest quantity of content ever available for EFL
learners, the use of computer along with internet, also provides an abundant variety of
language– through context learning opportunities and interactive activities, most in authentic
context.

13.  For foreign language learners effective classroom
strategies have traditionally involved use of songs,
rhymes and traditional stories with repeated language
structures.
 The Internet can be a rich source of authentic oral and
listening models trough songs, electronic books,
podcasts, and video clips that help learners with
pronunciation as well as the acquisition and
reinforcement of new vocabulary.
 For learners the ability to listen and play back recordings
helps them in the identification of grammatical errors
and inaccuracy in pronunciation, encouraging self-
improvement.

14. Using technology to teach speaking & pronunciation skills
 The use of technology can be helpful for learning, improving, practicing
and assessing speaking skill.
 EFL learners can use computer, tablets and Smartphones, connecting with
internet, to chat and talk with native speakers and practice and improve
their language, in friendlier foreign language learning environment.
 Today many social networking sites like Skype, Nimbuzz, Yahoo and
Facebook etc. allow this kind of audio as well video talk, in addition to IM
(instant messaging) service.
 This kind of online talk, with native speakers of English, has been
advocated, as very useful tool for improving speaking proficiency as well
as pronunciation.
 Such use of technology also gets even the reluctant EFL learners to
speak.
 The use of technology for developing speaking provides learning
opportunities where there is less teacher fronting and are authentic and
challenging situations for improving this important skill.

15. Using technology to teach reading skill
 The use of computer technology can contribute a lot in developing EFL learners’ reading
comprehension skill and other sub-skills related to it as well.
 Using computers, with the use of internet provides a variety of current and authentic reading
materials compared to potentially dated reading material sourced from textbooks (Kasper,
2000).
 Chun and Plass (1996) stressed that the verbal and visual systems in computer programs
help students to better understand the text. Most of the CALL programs are filled with
graphics and voices and when EFL learners visualize the situation, they can remember the
subject better in the long term.
 Many studies have also reported that CALL programs for vocabulary development have
positive results. Learning vocabulary, using computers, helps learners to learn vocabulary
significantly faster than the traditional way of teaching vocabulary.
 The varieties of reading materials, available with the use of computer technology and internet
can encourage EFL learners and open opportunities to read widely in foreign language like
English.
 This can be highly effective for developing vocabulary through wide reading and in mastering
important structures in the target language.
 That is why it is argued that computers can promote extensive reading; build reading fluency
and rate; develop intrinsic motivation for reading; and contribute to a coherent curriculum for
student learning.

16. Using technology to teach writing skill
 Another pedagogical benefit of the use of computer technology is the
argument that such use is one of the most effective tools to teach
writing.
 The study by Cunningham (2000) concluded that his students found
that his writing class was more productive when he used word
processing software with his students.
 These students indicated that using a word processor during the writing
process helped them to concentrate on certain aspects of their writing,
for example: grammar, vocabulary and the organization or structure of
their text.
 Similar results were also reported by Kasper (2000) which highlight the
useful role of the use of computer technology in developing writing skill
of EFL learners.