The attempt by educational officials to proffer and provide students, that is, the citizens of the 21st century, with tutoring in ICT is obvious and undeniable. Therefore, students have to be presented with didactic and technical procedures in order that they can evolve into skilled users of contemporary telematic tools and resources. They not only have to procure proficiency and ability to deal with technological needs, further they have to attain the capacity to manipulate them skillfully at technical, rational and critical levels. Gisbert (2000) indicates that student preparation would have to be expressed around three essential scopes: training to consume (ICT materials), training to use (telematic tools and resources) and training to …show more content…
In the framework of the teaching of English as a foreign language, the advantages of learners are noticeable and multiple. Classes will develop into more learner-centered, with learner’s time and determined attempts allotted to genuine reading and writing assignments and more joint to actual communication and for the initial moment learners of a languagecan communicate with othercopartners, speakers of the target language throughout the world. The ICC report certifies various of theses advantages: “They (students) have access to unprecedented amount of authentic target-language information, as well as possibilities to publish and distribute their own multimedia information for an international audience” (ICC, 2002, p 14).The access to several media will assist students handle different language data and become up to date of the diverse material they can employ to work with language. The fact that they can master this language by themselves and the current lively role that learners participate in technology-rich environments will also add to the fact that they will use their personal organizational plans. Simultaneously, activities will persuade learners to become language innovators and compel them to investigate and
Many kids in school are wanting to learn a new language away from their native language but many students are wondering what language is going to help them the most in the future. English is the clear answer for these students that are wondering what new language to learn for a number of reasons. Through different articles through the book “Language: A Reader for Writers” it discusses how language is the most successful and most useful language to speak. College students who want to learn a second language, that have not learned English, should learn English because it is the most widely used language in the world and it is the most useful language to learn.
Students have enough opportunities to practice the target language, in pairs, individually and as a whole class. They practice the language in speaking and written form.
This globalization has triggered the need for learning foreign languages to communicate with people from other countries. Some people believe that learning foreign language at the initial stages has a greater advantage while others opine differently. In the following essay we will discuss on the advantages of learning foreign language at primary school followed by the disadvantages.
difficult to achieve these objectives effectively without scrutinizing our approach to teaching and learning processes. Our essentially 19th century model of academic institutions does not measure up to the needs of a twenty-first century community. In spite of their ability to contribute to reconsider, digital education technologies have always been used in a technology-driven path to upgrade our present educational models. There is an alternative education-driven methodology to the use of digital education technologies to achieve our ambitions for E-learning education.
There are many challenges facing E-learning and E-assessment. Some of these challenges should be faced by learning management system and other by student. these challenges can be described as a follow:
TLE allows paired language learners to exchange their cultural and linguistic knowledge through a series of self-directed and agreed sessions, in which both correspondents have something to learn and offer (Little &Brammerts, 1996). It enables pupils to use Internet-based web-conferencing, Skype and video chat applications to connect with native speakers studying
“In today era, the basic knowledge of a single or more language has become crucial. Language has become the major tool of communication between countries, cultural groups, varies companies and organizations, communities and friends” (Banga & Suri 181)
Foreign language learners take on different approaches into learning a new language, whether it be self-taught or simply a foreign friend willing to teach an individual. However, in a university environment, teachers struggle in deciding a proper approach that would be most effective in the process of teaching a foreign language to students. Although there are numerous tactics in doing so, the teaching of reading and writing should be encouraged to foreign language learners because it would help expand the individual's vocabulary in that particular language, familiarize linguistic grammar and sentence structure, and would be given the skills necessary and applicable to the individual's pursuing career or hobby.
As we know that learning English in India it is gradually becomes very important due to century as well as techno-age is concerned. We all knew that English is taught either as Second Language or Target Language. It is very difficult for student-beginner who recently starts to learn English language as foreign language. One of the vital and pivotal pivot roles of learning Foreign Language is to open the treasure hidden in the literature of a particular language. To reveal such treasure one needs to be mastered in different methods of teaching the foreign languages. This makes easy full for learners to learn foreign language. If we want to understand different method of teaching foreign language things linguistically we can understand it as “A method in linguistics and language teaching determines what and how much is taught. The order in which it
Most of the people could not get their education because they are living very far from their universities and school, even the people who are working in their offices, they could not attend the classes due to their office work, so they can easily take lectures from their offices or home through the web. They provide a communication platform for the trainees who are at some distance. Now a day’s distance learning is becoming popular day by day. A person who is not able to reach the campus can take the lectures sitting at their home. As the world is now a global village technology is enhanced so if used properly, we can take a lot of advantage from it. When we want to deliver education at some distance than E- learning comes into play. E-learning stands for Electronic Learning which is a computer technology that supported education learning at all levels. Nowadays e-learning is a trending topic and it opens the ways of education and made the education flexible shrink the time and cost but ensuring the quality education is a bit tough. In our project the basic objective is the communication platform in which a teacher/trainer would be able to deliver live video lecture to all the students who are enrolled in a program and we need to make sure that the student is attending the lecture properly. And on the basis of attending lecture trainer give some scores (PDA'S) to the trainee. The best part of this project is that this is the real time project.
In teaching and learning of a language, there is a lot to choose from the world of technology: Radio, TV, CD Rom, Computers, C.A.L.L., the Internet, Electronic Dictionary, Email, Blogs and Audio Cassettes, Power Point, Videos, DVD’s or VCD’s. The last two decades have witnessed a revolution due to onset of technology, and has changed the dynamics of various industries, and has also influenced the industries and the way people interact and work in the society. This rapid rising and development of information technology has offered a better pattern to explore the new teaching model. As a result technology plays a very important role in English teaching. Using multimedia to create a context to teach English has its unique advantages. This paper tries to analyze the necessity of multimedia technology to language teaching and also brings out the problems faced by using these technologies. It also aims to make English teachers aware of the strategies to use it in an effective manner.
During this second unit we reviewed the most important approaches and methods in language teaching used nowadays. These methods are based in theories that view the language and the learning process differently, in consequence, they have different goals and uses depending what the teacher wants to accomplish.
The need to speak multiple languages has increased dramatically in the past decades. With communication among different cultures available now more than ever, it has become a necessity for business doers to be multilingual in various languages. Therefore, it has become unnecessary for English learners to become perfect speakers of the language, as the majority of them will be interacting with and doing business with other second language speakers. The need to be perfectly proficient in English no longer exists because the ability to be able to communicate with others, who may not have the English language mastered themselves, overrides any concern with proper language skills. It is no longer about perfection, but about effective communication.
In present day, the advantages of learning a foreign language are never ending and with it; supporting claims. Some of which include: the supported academic achievements, providing cognitive benefits to students, and lastly the affect language learning has on the attitudes and beliefs of other cultures (ACTFL). The ACTFL benefits students from pre-K until
Learning English via Internet is easier than ever. With the ease of using technology, you can practice speaking, reading, listening and writing skills from your home or your place of work .There are many institutes via Internet offering high quality, innovative, and effective methods of teaching in different languages with the encouragement and mutual understanding and respect between different cultures. Institutes create teaching programs that allow students to acquire basic skills and the growth of their personality in understanding themselves and the environment By engaging students in discussions and work on exciting and important issues, institutes strive to enable students to improve their foreign language and the development