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“USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE”

Technology is a useful and important tool that facilitates and improves students' skills. The use of this allows a meaningful interaction between the teacher and the students. 

SOME TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY

1. Fixed technology.

2. Flexible technology.

3. Soft technology

4. Tough technology.

5. Equipment technology.

6. Operation technology.

7. Product technology.

  8. Clean technology.

These are the eight types of technology we can find. All of them are useful for our lives, and they help us in many different ways.

 Technology in Our Life

     Although we don’t realize it sometimes, the use of technology increases every day. Most of us are now dependents to the technology. We also use several technologies to fulfill specific tasks that we perform in our life.

Ten most influential ways of technology to transform education.

1. Critical Thinking

2. Mobile Learning

3. Access to Education.

4. Deeper Learning

5. Continuous Feedback.

6. Unlimited and Immediate Learning

7. Creation and Contribution

 8. Social Connectedness

9. Global Awareness

10. Understanding Learning

   WAYS OF STUDYING  LENGUAGE 

Phonetics and Phonology:

Phonetics covers much of the ground loosely referred to in language study as pronunciation. But, from a rather different point of view, speech sounds are also studied in phonology. Spoken language makes use of a very wide range of the articulations and resultant sounds that are available within the human vocal and auditory resources. Each spoken language uses a somewhat different range, and this is partly responsible for the difficulty of learning to speak a foreign language and for speaking it “with an accent.

Functions of Language

 Language is usually used to communicate thought, ideas, feelings and emotions. Language and communication are two different concepts because we can communicate without any language also. Language has so many functions.

Importance of Language

Language impacts the daily lives of members of any race, creed, and region of the world. Language helps express our feelings, desires, and queries to the world around us.

Technology and the English Language

  With the rise of the Internet, the English language became a crucial part of the spread of technology. Since the Internet was invented in the United States, the vocabulary associated with technology has been created and distributed in English. There were no other language alternatives when the technology started to grow. This greatly increased the reach of the English language when many other countries began to incorporate technology into their culture.

Systems Teaching English

In the classroom: Although most modern methodologies and approaches focus on communication and make little reference to systems, many course books still have a structure based on the systems and skills mentioned above.

In the classroom: Areas of written and spoken discourse looked at in language classrooms include various features of cohesion and coherence, discourse markers, paralinguistic features (body language), conventions and ways of taking turns.   

Discourse is one of the four systems of language, the others being vocabulary, grammar and phonology. Discourse has various definitions but one way of thinking about it is as any piece of extended language, written or spoken, that has unity and meaning and purpose.

Active Learning for Language Learning: 

How to Learn English Fast:

In active learning the ability to think in English is formed subconsciously while the innate habit of cross-translation is turned off automatically.

Integrating Technology into English Language Teaching

Nik Peachey,  talks about the impact teaching- and learning-technology has had on students and teachers. While using technology in English language teaching, our Techno-Hubs bring tech-based learning to the ELT classroom improving the way students and teachers communicate and interact through language learning.

Use of Technology in ESL Teaching

It is to learn a new language it offers us different possibilities and tools to improve our learning in a more practical way.

The student interacts with the computer or an intelligent partner, practices their pronunciation, performs exercises through games and can return to the subject that is not clear, until the learning is achieved.

Using the internet gives access to many tools that support learning English.

The use of technology makes the classes more interactive, that multimedia tools can be used, which change both video and audio in addition to text.

5 Benefits of Educational Technology in Learning English

Technology in the classroom within educational centers is the present of education. The use of new technology in language learning has become the perfect complement in reaching proficiency and fluency, and English courses accompanied by technological support are the most effective and attractive for students who want to be successful in their learning.

1.  The Best Complementary Tool for Teachers In The                      Classroom

     Educational technology today is advantageous for teachers in so many ways. Traditional education is not so efficient anymore and teachers need to motivate their students more than ever when presenting any material in the classroom.  

2 Technology Is Motivating and Stimulating For Students

     The use of technology as much in the classroom as outside it makes the students feel much more motivated, using devices with which they can practice a language through features such as voice recognition and interactive multimedia exercises etc. 

3 Ease in Managing and Monitoring Student Progress

     Making and keeping lists of groups of students, managing courses, evaluating students with tests and exams, many tasks which are administrative in nature are these days managed thanks to online educational platforms which offer innumerable functionalities tailored to educational center’s needs.    

4 Create A Unique Experience as Much for the Teacher as the Students

     The flipped classroom method in English courses, along with technology to complement it, is turning English classrooms into an environment where sharing, debating, creating and forming opinions is nurtured, a space which is much more creative and participatory. 

 5 Promote Interactivity and Collaboration within Learning

     The use of new technology allows students to be much more creative and participative in the classroom. 

RECOMMENDATIONS 

 We have access to different kinds of tools and the use of them, helps to teach in an organized, active and interesting way.

The use of technology in the teaching-learning process of the English language is important to achieve that the student develops critical thinking and gets access to learning materials.

IMPORTANCE OF THE INVESTIGATION

It was of great importance to investigate about the use of technology in teaching the English language, so we realized that it greatly influences students since it has different tools that can be helpful for students when they are learning A new language is also a great help to the teacher because through technology we can create material to give better classes as well as help us learn new techniques and tools that we can apply when teaching.