ICT / CALL Essay

Universidad Autónoma del Carmen

English Language Degree

ICT / CALL

Teacher: Rafael Ferrer Méndez

ICT / CALL use in the teaching – learning language classroom. 

By: Mitzy Mújica Toache

ICT are tools for several years have given the human a facility to carry out their projects more efficiently, at school the student learn how to use various techniques and applications to take advantage and make projects and tasks in a more professional manner and quality. CALL is an equally interesting and very important tool when using it in teaching.

When we talk about ICT doubts as to use them to improve our lives and make it more productive arise.

For that a detailed and strategic planning to achieve significant learning is needed.

Do not try to cover all aspects but go little by little. We must remain calm before the problems and technical failures. In this type of learning should put aside the kind of traditional teaching, the teacher will only serve as a guide while the student will start a self-learning process. Since today the school is not the only place where you can learn. ICT must be able to use freely, to experience the best way to use them. Teachers should be the first to know how to use technologies and learn to master them fully to teach. ICT on the other hand should be seen as what they are: a tool. It should be seen as just naturally not be distracting to students.

On the other hand it has been a quick tools named CALL that born many years ago, involves the computer as a tool that is able to help us in our learning process. Along with the internet has evolved CALL. Children and young people are the ones who get more benefit of CALL. Often more intuitive when learning and more interested in the subject. CALL is a very innovative tool although that was created long ago, is still several important phases of their origin and includes things we use every day such as instant messaging. Use it in the classroom is almost essential because students should get familiar from the beginning. we live in the era in which ICT can help, but if used the wrong way can also be harmful.Television on the other hand can also be a means of communication that can help or harm the student.

In conclusion the use of ICT is essential and has been a great help to the teachers, adapting to new teaching techniques is important and you should start to be used from now on ICT here and there is almost no place for the kind of traditional teaching. The evolution of teaching techniques is something as important as any other technological advancement of our time and yet is not given the importance and attention it deserves but the people who do take great advantage and that is something that thank as a student. Using the CALL technology is something equally important and innovative, because I feel that dares to explore other side of the teaching that is teaching a second or foreign language. Which it is something important nowdays.

References: 

1.  Warschauer, M. (1996). "Computer Assisted Language Learning: an Introduction". September 24, 2016, de Multimedia language teaching, Tokyo: Logos International: 3-20 Sitio web: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/warschauer.htm

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