Instructional Technology

 Computers and language learning: An overview 

Week I: The Implementation of Technology in the Teaching Process

 Fernando Canales 

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The reading for this week explains the implementation of technology in the classrooms becoming an important tool in the teaching process of a language. The article explains the benefits that computers and the Internet can provide to students in the learning process of a foreing language, and the important role that teachers has in the teaching process. 

The article explains different points about the implementations of computer programs and the possible benefits to put into practice that pedagogical technique. It mentions that use a computer program in the teaching process of a language using different software’s that are useful tools for teachers and students to teach and learn language skills in a different and funny way. However, as it could have benefits, the article explains that could be a problem for students in order to get distracted at the moment of being working in the computer, for that reason the idea was rejected, because another idea, the idea of communicative call was better, in which students could be working in groups or pairs, reading an article or just speaking they can find relationship between topics, and it is better for them, in contrast to be practicing with a machine with a robotic language. 

There are different ways in which I would apply technology on my classes, one possibility could be the use of a software to teach grammar structures or conjugations, playing a memory game, in which students could find the words that form a correct structure for a sentence; using a projector, and a computer.