When we
talk about Internet, we imagine a World with unlimited educational resources
that we can integrate in our classes. The article “Call Me… Maybe: A Framework
for Integrating into ESL, introduces a new perspective about the use and
applications of Internet in ESL.
While for
some, the Internet is a resource that does not help at all to education, for
other people, the Internet is a useful learning tool that we can use as a
medium of instruction, or as a source of content. However, the Internet has had
an accelerated growth in recent years, and now it offer numerous tools, such as
mobile applications, websites, etc. in order to make the learning process a
good experience. In that way, we realize how useful it can be in order to
practice, teach and learn a new language.
Something
that I learned from this article is that the Internet can help to reduce the
anxiety in students, promotes learners autonomy (because they are responsible
of their learning), increase learner’s motivation and engage students in the
learning process; and is our responsibility as teachers that our students
achieve that.
As a
conclusion, this article is useful because it shows different ways to apply
Internet in our classes (as a medium of instruction, or as a source of
content). It provides good examples of websites that can be useful in our
classes and also the article open the doors to Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
(MALL), and provides examples that how mobile devices can be useful to support
our lessons.
Hello Adonay, I really liked your post for this week. I decided to comment on it because I agree with you when you say that internet can be a useful tool for teachers and learners of a second language, but not everybody thinks of it that way. I believe that depending on the use we give to it, internet can help us to practice and have a better understanding of a specific lesson, or it can distract us from doing homework and make us spend time in things that are not important or useful. So tell me, what advice would you give to second language learners that struggle using internet correctly to support their learning even after being instructed by their teachers?
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ReplyDeleteHello Ado, I wanted to comment on your post of week 5, but I do not know how I pasted my comment in your last post, not this one. However, I will comment again. I like your post and I agree with you. The internet is a great tool that can be used for teaching languages; not only as a medium of instruction, but also as a source of content. There are different websites where we can find material to integrate into class or to use with our students. We can use the material at any moment we want, it is not necessary to have internet at the time of giving a class. Also, I agree when you mention that at the same time there are useful websites for the benefit of learning, there are also some of them that do not help at all to education. However, I think that it depends on the way we use them. For example, Facebook is a place that a lot of people use for entertainment, but it can be very useful to communicate with students and an excellent mean to share important material with them.
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