COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE LEARNING.




Mark Warchauer and Deborah Healy mentioned that many years ago the computers were a weird object in education. Some teachers nowadays use a computer because is an important instrument in all the classroom. It is interested because the article is divides in four parts. 

On the other hand, the history showed some approaches in which the technology was grown, but in different ways; for example, I think that the communicative CALL is better because is a cognitive theory, and I consider that behaviorist give less opportunities than communicative CALL because the students are involve and they can work with the computers. Besides, the communicative CALL allows students to learn through a class in which the content-based, project based, and task-based; Also, teachers can develop a class with that kind of method.

Other thing that I consider help teachers is that some software provided programs in which we have the opportunity to learn about different topics. The computers and the internet make students can access to different kind of pages in the web that have more information. Also, teachers can find more information easily to teach. In addition, the internet is a way in which students or people in general can share opinions with different people around the world, and get more knowledge.









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  1. Teacher children24 de enero de 2017 a las 12:41

    I agree with you because the technology has a lot of benefits for students in a language classroom. The use of this tool has become easier the access of new methods for teach and learn a new language. Also, students are able to communicate with native speakers and they are able to find many exercise that can help in the development of their education. On the other hand, Mark Warchauer and Deborah Healy mentioned that the computers have been used since some years ago. This mean that the use of computers have increase every day with huge range of apps and that the technology is a tool very essential in the moment to learn a new languages.

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  2. Teacher Lorena24 de enero de 2017 a las 14:01

    Thanks Vanessa. Was it easy or difficult for you to read article and understand its message? If you had to tell us what the main idea of the article is in ONE sentence, what would you say?

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