Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Hello everyone, my name is Natalia Gregori. As all of you I am majoring a bachelor degree of languages. I am so interested on learning a lot of this subject to improve my knowledge and become in a better future teacher.
Week 1. The advent of CALL
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This time I am going to share with you my point of view about the first reading...
My initial impression of this article was the history that computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has since it starts in 1960s, and how it has changed until this days. It stared to be used just as a support to make students work alone with language drills, then it was becoming more useful since it development was growing up. CALL has become an inportant tool in the teaching field because student learn in a more interactive way as it is mentioned about studies made in 1991 that shown that students felt more motivated in writing with computers than in a traditional way, also teachers have a wide field for developing their classes.
Something that made me want to read more about the article was the amount of programs and apps that CALL offers for learning in general. It is very interesting how easier can be for us as future teachers to prepare a class using CALL instead of preparing all the material by hand since we can find many activities searching on internet but also we can make them do drills alone or create their own presentations. Moreover, students of a foreing language can look for extra help on internet as dictionaries, voice recording, video clips and animation of the mouth. There is a lot of courseware to be used in order to improve the mental development.
Filally, something I learned from this article and that every teacher should know was that technology is growing up and we have to growth at the same time and prepare ourselves to create the best classes as possible for our future students. To help them to develop correctly their skills and learn according to their stage, we have to take advantage of everything we can of CALL and remember that to not be bored teachers we have to be adapted to the environment.
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Hello Natalia. Thanks for sharing your log this week. I agree with your points of view. I just want you to clarify something...when you say 'My initial impression of this article was...' what emotion you felt? For example, surprise, interest, boredom, etc. Check this list of emotions and tell us what your first impression was.
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thanks for your advice Miss, to be honest I felt interested on the topic. that one was my initial impression.. :)
DeleteHi Natalia, I think that its true all that you mentioned bacause there are many ways that technology has helped in education and being a tool how to teach languages for children and adults too. for many years technology has been a tool in differents areas for education beacuse technology give a lot kinds of programs that students can use to learn more even teachers can apply these kind of programs to teach students in a easy way.
ReplyDeletesome people say that technology is not helpfull because students get distracted easily, maybe is in the way that some students use.Other people recognize that technology is an easy and fun way to learn for children. there also some teacher that use technology like an strategy to teach beacause is more interesting to sudents.