The Impact of Using Technology in Teaching English as Second Language

Explain why it is important to provide opportunities for learners to develop their English, Mathematics, ICT and wider skills (1.3)

Not So Fast,” Andrea Lunsford argues that rather than leading to a new illiteracy, the digital technologies in the modern world help students to develop their ability of writing. Not only that students are daferrors than 25 years ago, actually with less spelling errors. In order to help students with the challenges, the teacher should offer solid instructions and encouragement rather than derision.

Communication on the Internet is often quite informal. It can appear to be in an entirely different language at times. This is because writing on the Internet is often done by amateurs with little to no revision and no requirements to get published. Getting an idea out as fast as possible is frequently the goal of these Web writers, which can result in failure to correctly apply the basics of writing, such as grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The essay “Literacy Debate: Online R U Really Reading?” by Motoko Rich is about whether or not reading on the Internet is as effective for today’s youth as reading books. Rich employs specific word choice as well as misleading statistics and quotations to show her opinion on Internet literacy without directly stating her thoughts.

YOUR TASK 6: Technology can be implemented in your syllabus to enhance success in English language learners. Follow the YouTube channel, Using Technology to Make Content More Accessible to English Language Learners. It has a lot of information about how technology is relevant to teachers to use in ELL. Technology can help teachers to differentiate any content and be more accessible to diverse students.

This section contains the analysis of the journal article. This journal article contains good language. The tone of the writing is formal and is able to be understood by the reader because of the simple word choice. The language used is good because there were several good vocabularies used such as phonological awareness and rapid naming. The authors also came into a clear conclusion where they are able to make a stand that text messages have positive effects on children’s literacy. However, if it was for adults, it is hard to make a stand. The journal article also showed rhetorical devices that focused more on ethos and logos that can maintain clarity and interest among readers. The authors showed good visualization of the topic such as text

To improve my writing based on the online tools feedback and analysis I will engage in more reading and writing. The first point of reference is to utilise text book such as the Communication Skills Toolkit: Unlocking the Secrets of Tertiary Success by Grellier and Goerke (2010). In addition The Little Red Writing Book: Better Sentences (n.d.) offers another medium for writing effective sentences. The benefits of The Little Red Writing Book entail sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar and syntax where at the end of each section, there are activities for practice. Furthermore, text books and tutor’s notation for required discipline will enhance my learning in reading and writing.

In the reading “Does Texting Affect Writing,?” the author, Michaela Cullington, defines text-messaging as a very popular way in which teenagers and business uses to communicate without the necessity of speaking in a more convenient and rapid way by writing short messages in their mobile devices. However, Cullington states that in order to communicate in a rapid way by text-messaging many people change words to abbreviations. “The language created by these abbreviations is called textspeak” (361). Owning to her well-developed research, Cullington discover that some people consider that the using of abbreviations in text-messaging is affecting the writing skills of students while other believes that is the contrary, that text-messaging helps

In the essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” The author, Michaela Cullington, does a study to figure out whether texting affects students writing skills, and she argues that texting does not affect student’s writing skills. Owing to her well-developed research, Cullington discover that some people consider that the using of abbreviations in text-messaging is affecting the writing skills of students while other believes the contrary, that texting helps student to write and express better their ideas (362). First, Cullington explains the opinions of those who believe texting negatively affects students writing skills, then those who believe text-messaging positively affects writing, and finally her own study.

France (2003) showed in his research study the effect of integrating technology on increasing students’ interest in writing. The problem of the targeted fifth graders was their lack of motivation in writing, and this will certainly affect their writing achievement level. As a result,

Humanity lives in an age of new and exciting technologies that enables people to improve their writing skills and enhance their reading abilities. This digital age where communication is instant and knowledge is just a Google search away has mean that language has had to evolve and change with the times. The digitalisation of books in inventions such as an e-book reader, the rise of new technologies such as mobile phones with their use of emoticons, the use of the internet in the development of the English language through communication on social media, and the use of spell-checker to help with writing assignments and typing up stories as well as a potential tool to save lives through prevention are

Technology is a helpful tool for teaching the writing process, and Marchisan and Alber (2001) concluded that writers can be taught to write using the writing process approach paired with tools of technology, direct instruction, and committed well-trained teachers. Graham, (2008), Graham & and Perin (2007a), and Rogers & and Graham, (2008), agreed that technology makes the process of writing easier and often provides very specific types of support. Word processing provides at least four advantages: (a) revisions are easily made, (b) publishing is professional-looking, (c) typing provides an easier means for children with fine motor skill challenges to produce text, and (d) word-processing programs have software programs, such as spell and stylistic checkers designed to reduce specific types of miscues. Other tools are speech synthesis (i.e., the writer’s spoken words are transcribed to electronic text) and word-prediction programs (i.e., the computer program reduces the key strokes by predicting the writer’s next word). This is helpful for students with difficulties with spelling and the mechanics of writing. In addition, outlining and semantic mapping software can aide with the planning process, and the use of computer networks and the Internet can help to promote communication and collaboration among writers.

Writing itself is a technique to understand the language. Technology was developed in the later years through the various types like manuscripts, leather, toddy leaves, cloth and paper, metal reel, magnetic discs and software of system. The technology in the modern sense is closely related to the alternate devices to the manual work. The same devices were improved and invented as cameras, Gramophones, movie/cinema, computer and world wide, web/global internet facility. They became teaching aids to analyze them and screening/visualizing the lessons. Even though the facilities of technology can not be equal to the teacher/instructor/mentor, they are useful to the students. The scientific technology is useful to the all fields of knowledge. The foreign language English is also in the requirement of technology to learn the language in the third world countries. The language and literature makes use of technology for the learning. In the case of English language learning technology is useful from the Kinder garden to University level research studies.

Nowadays, Digital literacy helps to understand and analyze information through digital technology. The use of technology plays an important role within the process of teaching and learning; it can be used to teach reading and writing skills by using digital devices such as laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, or desktops. However, within the context of the use of technology in the area of education, and specifically in the area of language, digital literacy would also encompass its application both in development of language skills and learning of languages (reading, writing, oral comprehension and oral production). Although there are many limitations to the technological advances of digital literacy I believe that the advantages are greater than

To gather more information related to this topic, some interviews to different English teachers were carried

To know whether TPR method can improve the student’s English language skills in primary school