instructional technology Isabel Sanchez

Based on the article "Blending technologies in ESL courses: A reflexive enquiry" By Paul Gruba, Cameron Clark, Kellyn Ng and Marisa  The use of the technology in the classroom is important especially when is relate with teach or learn a second language. The use of multimedia technology is an important tool in the class because it call students' attention and makes students understand it in an easy way. In addition, it changes the teaching method that students are accustomed to learning. Unfortunately, not all schools have the opportunity to integrate the use of technology in class, because they do not have the necessary financial resources, which means that not all schools can teach a second language using technology. For these reasons, many teachers must teach with the traditional method that sometimes makes students get bored easily and lose interest in learning a second language, especially working with teenagers  who are currently growing at the same...

Based on the article "Effectiveness of the Integration of ICT Tools and Activities to Foster Awareness as the First Stage to Reach Learning Autonomy" By Andrea Ariza and Mario Suárez Sánchez. According to the article, the use of the ICT in the classroom tries to demonstrate the autonomous learning that students can develop and, in turn, verify if they are capable of autonomous learning, which means that students can establish their own learning objectives and analyze their own progress in class. It is also believed that the teaching and implementing of metacognitive strategies oriented towards the learning process contribute to the improvement of students’ linguistic skills. The ICT´S are an important tool in the learning process beacuse it makes that studens learn and progress at the same time that the technology evolves.  On the other hand, the use of tic helps students to be autonomous, which means that they may be more likely to achieve high linguistic compet...

Based on the article: "Computers and Language Learning: an overview" by Mark Warschauer and Deborah Healey.  Computers have been used for language teaching since the 1960s. The role of computers in language teaching has changed significantly in the last 30 years.  T he last few years have shown a greater interest in the use of computers for teaching and learning languages, since previously books and dictionaries were used more to teach and learn the language. Nowadays, technology has become a very important tool to teach and learn a language. However, despite all the advantages that I use technology can provide in the teaching area, it also brings some disadvantages for language teachers; since nowadays the role of teachers has changed drastically because as a result of the use of the computers to teach languages the teacher has become a facilitator of learning rather than the font of wisdom,  After to read this article which is really interesting, I can say that the...