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Tools for teaching EFL and ESL
Reading this week's articles I have learned that actual students are more accesible to acquire and improve their new language acquisition with more wide strategies that teachers can introduce in their knowledge. This time the articles are focused on reading and writing lessons. Realia, URL, HTML, e-mail lessons, websites and others are the more used tools nowadays for teachers in the momment of develop a class or give a task and it has become in successful ways to teach in many cases. Unfortunately, always are presented some disadvantages for some students in the moment of learning by CALL because sometimes can be dificult for some to learn by using technology or sometimes they can feel scared of doing something wrong, but in that case it is an obligation for teachers to make them feel comfortable and help them as much as necessary. That with the objective of become them independent and confident in the area they were developing. Something I disliked about the article was to notice about the traditional instructions when they used the coursebook which consisted on do the same exercise during the whole class, I consider that tool was bored. Something I want to remember from this article is that we have to take into account the level of students we have in the moment of teach them with CALL tools, also I like the links presented there for teaching EFL and the activities mentioned for make them improve their writing. Moreover, it is important for us to be totally prepared with our lessons and on the other hand, to keep extra materials or activities in case we lose internet access or any technologic problem arises.
Hi, I like the point you mentioned about, we have many resources for students in the classrooms, also you mentioned something to pay attention, it is be prepare in case the internet does not work, so with the use of the technology is unpredictable some can be wrong, I had an experience once and, I have to make up something different. You Also mentioned that exist some bored readings I agree but, as you said too we must pay attention in the level of the students we are teaching. So, I really like it, good reaction of the readings.
ReplyDeleteHi Natalia i agree with you in the part you mention that teachers should know what to do in case any problem comes up, but also it is important to mention that they have to stablish limits, in other words,they have to take into account that internet in ESL classrooms is just a tool or a facilitator of learningand teachers are authorities, so they play an important role in the student's learning process
ReplyDeleteHello Natalia
ReplyDeleteI like your points of view. It is really important to take students to the path of reading and writing. The teacher can in class assign an online reading and tell him to analyze it and answer certain questions but we must take into account how you say the level at which the students are. As you say you also have to carry extra activities in case the technology or the internet fails. In this case we can ask students to write about a topic of interest.