Once there was famine for information but today’s generation is drowned in the deluge of information. The ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has been used in all fields of life, including education. In Indian education, the computer technology has become so significant that the government has incorporated the ICT in the curriculum. The use of the ICT in English Language Teaching has of late started to stress the potential and significant progress in language learning. It has become one of the major issues in the world of education and has been in use from preschool to the tertiary level which could facilitate students and teachers during the process of teaching and learning. The ICT has been gaining vitality as it is an enabling tool for educational revival as well. As indicated above, the importance of the ICT as a teaching aid, especially in imparting the nuances of teaching and learning English is being dealt with in detail in this paper.
Keywords:
Facilitator, ICT tools, Proliferation, Application, Second Language Acquisition, Technology, Educational revival.
I.INTRODUCTION
The proliferation of computers plays a significant role in the learning process particularly in acquiring a second language. Hartoyo (2008) states, ‘a computer is a tool and medium that inspires people in learning a language,
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To make students learn the lessons with guidance, instruction, information or further explanation, language learning program can be created. The ICT in language learning can be used as a reference book as a computer can store unlimited lessons or references, which can be accessed accurately anytime, anywhere. The seven ways in which the ICT is used in language learning are highlighted below by Fitzpatrick and Davies
Having the ICT technology in schools it encourages the pupils to access a wide range of information and communication opportunities and enables pupils to store and retrieve, draft and redraft, test and analyse. This develops there learning skills that are required for the National Curriculum. These skills include: Communication skills, problem-solving, investigating, evaluating and analysing and critical
Information communication technology (ICT) helps to learn theoretic development discoveries, treatment and support techniques for education and curriculum. It gives teachers, higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) and children access to educational resources from around the globe anytime and day. While using ICT, children learn concepts, history, ideas, theories and practices across culture when it is use in their classroom. HLTA and teachers however have to know how and why they are using ICT and incorporate the concepts in: social responsibility, creativity, communication, culture sensitivity, decision making technology application and usage. According to Andrews et al. (2006, p.5) “ICT has been defined as including stand-alone computers, networked technologies with a multimodal interface, mobile phones with the capacity for a range of types of communication, and other technologies that allow multimodal and interactive communication.”
As a 21st century language educators, teachers should realize the real situation now where the learners have been exposed more to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and most of them are the digital native users. The teaching traditional method such as giving a lecture and asking to do homework afterwards are actually not really practical for the current use. Lesson should be authentic learning which the learners can relate the knowledge to the real life. Realia teaching aids which could be visualized by the learners have to be utilized in the learning process. It is basically on how the way of the 21st century educators educate their learners’ need that meets the expectation of the development in educational technology.
In her article “How Technology Aids Language”, Anna Spitbaum describes the advantages of learning English with the help of modern technology. Learning a language used to be very difficult back in the days but in times of technological developments, such as the Internet, almost everyone is able to do so. Difficult languages, that are hard to learn for non-native speakers, can now be translated with the help of various softwares and websites and furthermore, we now have the possibility to protect vanishing and threatened languages with the help of dictionaries or online databases. But all inventions will be in vain if there is no one who makes use of a language on a regular
We are living in a country that is called a technologically civilized society. The use of the Internet has not changed the way that we think but it is making unique contributions in classrooms by providing us with immediate and convenient access to an extraordinary amount of ideas and information. “In the world that we currently live in, technology is a very vital factor”. Today most people are more familiar with the gadget they carry in their backpack or even in their pocket; which is technically advanced. Every other day a new software device is being brought into the marketplace that helps to improve our knowledge in and out of school. in one way, the internet provides a much easier opportunity in education for student everywhere with access to all kinds of books available at any time. However, it is important to note that despite the fact that technology plays a big role in making our school lives much easier, it is not the only role it has. The internet seems to be impairing our ability to focus and to think deeply on any subject. The more technology continues to grow, the more improvement it provides in education level for certain students while for others it has a very different effect in the way we read and take in information. Furthermore, I will be discussing both pros and cons of the way technology is used in and out of our schools today.
ICT has become one of the most common resources in daily life. ICT has transformed the way people communicate and learn in almost every aspect of modern life for education (Higgins, 2007). Many countries have recognised ICT as a core part of education, along with writing and reading (Amin, 2008). The term ICT has had misconceptions that ICT refers to computers only, in circumstance this is incorrect. According to Pelgrum and Law (2003) during the 1980’s the word computers was given the title of IT (information technology), this demonstrated a shift of focus from computing technology to the ability to store and recover data. The term ICT was then introduced in 1992 (Pelgrum and Law, 2003).
Chapelle C.A. (2001) Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition: Foundations for Teaching, Testing and Research. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Language is an indispensable tool for communication. This is universally known fact. English has become a global language in the era of globalization. It is a linkage and is used vastly in all Indian and foreign libraries. The aim of teaching English in the secondary schools is to promote its pupils with sufficient knowledge of English and to aid them in their future studies and build confidence to find a suitable job. If we come to the present context, English is the language that is found in all corners of India. Now it is the language of the global trade.
Computer technology changes the way people with the advent of internet, that has significant effects on communicating, teaching and learning. Students learning English as a foreign language uses the Internet as an instructional aid because of the integration of various tool and application in the educational and instructional process (Al- Ghoza , 2008) , Meanwhile , it also serves a tool to the teachers to make the lesson suitable for all learning style and facilitates cooperative learning. (Hollenback & Hollenbeck , 2004) . There has been so much to explore in this area and so this paper will highlight the advantage and disadvantage of using the Internet in teaching and learning Teaching English as a Foreign Language .
Technology can help students in all areas of study. Students need to be able to use this technology since, “Currently and in the near future, it is understood that students need to acquire more autonomous skills of ‘information gathering, analysis, and display’” (Todnem, 2004, p. 1). Furthermore, the use of technology, mainly the internet, provides for variation since “Students find themselves bored and burnt-out of the lecture format to classes, so changing the curriculum and instruction to include things like online assignments and educational videogames can be one clear remedy” (Todnem, 2004, p. 1). Teachers who have implemented technology into their classrooms have noticed changes in their students. The most common of these effects being an increase in motivation. In “Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students” another positive effect is given “technology effect stressed by many teachers was enhancement of student self esteem” (“Effects,” 2004, p. 2).
The main goal of using language learning strategies are to help learners improve their knowledge and understanding of the target language. They are the conscious thoughts and behaviours used by students to facilitate language learning tasks and to personalize the language learning
Thinking of language as an object, a set of rules and codes to follow, is to remove it from its true meaning of being a means for communication and expression of self. The social influence and cultural meaning that language has is far too complex and meaningful to describe as an object. Although language should not be seen as an object it can be physically present around us. It is present in physical forms such as speech, audio recordings, and writings. When looking at it from this point of view, language is a material object. (Gee & Hayes, 2011, p. 6). It is important for teachers to understand that children today make sense of the world through visual, audio, digital and multimedia texts/teaching tools and interactive activities better than they can with more ‘traditional’ tools (such as textbooks and reading from a whiteboard). (Green, 2006, p. 6). Living in a digital world with the socio-cultural demands being increased for new technological tools to teach children, teachers need to ensure that they can keep up with these new tools. Not only are technological advances important to consider when teaching students, the learning levels of the children need to be considered also. If a student does not or cannot understand new technology at a high level how can we expect them to learn anything from these technological learning tools. These learning
Learning English via Internet is easier than ever. With the ease of using technology, you can practice speaking, reading, listening and writing skills from your home or your place of work .There are many institutes via Internet offering high quality, innovative, and effective methods of teaching in different languages with the encouragement and mutual understanding and respect between different cultures. Institutes create teaching programs that allow students to acquire basic skills and the growth of their personality in understanding themselves and the environment By engaging students in discussions and work on exciting and important issues, institutes strive to enable students to improve their foreign language and the development
Sanskrit e-Learning is a project we are planning to implement. We are trying to tune our training program with latest academic trends in India and rest of the word. In this article we are discussing issues involved in traditional learning, present classroom learning and e-Learning. As the present classroom learning involves four basic elements – chalk, blackboard, lecturer and students and interaction, traditional Sanskrit learning is based on Gurukula system.
Technology brought many changes in every aspect of one’s life in 21st century. It showed its impact in both English languages learning and teaching. Content-based method, chalk & talk method, Grammar and translation methods are replaced with task-based method, E- teaching, Direct method and communicative approaches etc. The role of English teacher became prominent in developing language skills of students in modern era. So the teacher has much responsibility to make the students good at English language. He has to play different roles like mentor, motivator, counselor, facilitator, guide, student-friendly teacher etc. Teacher has to adapt a student-centered approach to teach English language. Then students get ample opportunities