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Importance Of Teaching And Learning Approaches

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ADAPT TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACHES AND RESOURCES, INCLUDING TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF LEARNERS. UNIT 2, 5.6
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Agreeing with Littlemore and Oakey (2004), we founds that teachers are sometimes overwhelmed by the technology and "do not seriously think about how it might be usefully applied" (Davies, 2009). Indeed, language learning and teaching approach should be pedagogy-driven and learning-based, which is more rigid and emphasises on the needs of learners with the aid of technology resource and tools. Contrarily, technology-driven approach which attempts to formulate a pedagogy based on the cutting edge advantages of a new device, should be abandoned. If a language teaching or learning project is driven by the fashionable technology, it might pose the danger to the learners as well as the teachers disappearing over the horizon of SLA pedagogy.
Number of research reveal that learners dislike reading large amount of text on the screen, such as Wiki, and they often prefer to print out the documents for reading. For instance, Boulton's (2005) paper indicated that less than 20% of his students are happy with on screen reading. Anderson (2003) reports that metacognitive online reading strategies plays important role in online L2 reading.
Despite of input issue, barrier of producing written output using ICT tools has also been noticed. Mishan (2004) points out that it might sometimes be challenging for learners to compose on screen. The

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