Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition.

Week 9: Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension 

Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning 

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Something that caught my attention ad I want to share about the articles is the importance of vocabulary and the connection with the reading comprehension. Is well known that multimedia and the effects of multimedia software's has relationship between the acquisition of vocabulary development and reading comprehension. As teachers we can take in consideration some principles aspects related to the use of CALL in vocabulary and reading development. First, we as teachers should pay more attention to the existence of various teaching tools. Second, we should introduce multimedia-glossed texts into the vocabulary/reading class. Third, as teachers we should be acquainted with the criteria for software and courseware evaluation. Finally, we should keep up with current methodology and make best use of visuals and multimedia.

Also, there is information about diferent types of dictionaries, and the article provide information about the one that is better for the students that is corpus based dictionaries, that are different to the ones of general use, because the last one is focused for native speakers, and not for foreing language learners. 

Writting Practice Using the Internet

week 8: Process Writing and the Internet: Blogs and Ning Networks in the Classroom; Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis

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With the use of Internet we as teachers can teach how to practice writting skills creating essays, blogs, etc. To students might practice writting skills by their own without a teacher's feedback, and with help of their classmates, that might help them to notice some mistakes, and thanks to that students can improve their writting skill with some time and practice, students will be on their way to practicing, evaluating and improving their writing.

Some options in which we as teacher can implement that method would be ask to students to write a personalized storybooks for children. Provide them readings for them to read and analyze and ask them to publish on a website or blog their analysis about the reader, the other students have to look for their classmates websites or blogs and read their information, make suggestions etc. Interactive stories, written by their readers: The students read the story page by page. At the end of each page there are two choices for what to do next. When the students reach the end of the part that the readers before them have written, they can create the next page of the story. Those are some options that I would apply on my classes with my students.

Week 7: Using Internet as a Tool to Teach Reading and Writing Skills

Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction
L Journal Using Internet­Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL 

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Internet has become an important tool in the teaching process, many english teachers recognize the potential of the Internet for long-distance communication, it enables english learners to communicate with others across the globe. However, many teachers fail to realize that the Internet can be of great benefit not only for long distance exchanges but also for linking students in a single classroom. For instance: when we ask to students to create a writing task by themselves, and then send it to us by email and we can check it and send it back to them, they will be able to practice that skill of the new language that they are acquiring. Three types of electronic communication are possible within a single class: teacher student communication, out of class electronic discussion, and in-class, real time electronic discussion. 

The development of the Internet brought about a revolution in the teachers' perspective, as the teaching tools offered through the net were gradually becoming more reliable. Nowadays, the Internet is gaining immense popularity in foreign language teaching and more and more educators and learners are including it in their classes, obviously we as teachers have to include it on our syllabus, to let know to students  when they are going to use it, as well as the other technological materials.

Using internet as a tool to teach reading and writing skills  we can be able to teach different courses like English Composition,reading and conversation courses, etc. We can be able to ask our students to look for information, write about different topics and send us that information to our emails for we to check it and provide them a feedback. It is can help them to improve and develop their writing and reading skills. We just have to look for a way in which we can apply that tool in our classes, and make sure that our students are going to achieve the purpose of the implementation of this pedagogical technique.