Instructional Technology - Beatriz Zavala

Rate: 4 Based on the article: "Blending Technologies in ESL courses: A reflexive enquiry" by Paul Gruba, Cameron Clark, Nellyn Ng, and Marisa Wells. As a future teachers we should look for new things and methods that helps students in their learning process. This article talks about an interesting method that they call "Blending method" in which its combine some others methods or materials to make a meaningful learning for students. This method also helps to detect the problems or barriers that a student could show at the moment of they learn a second language. They also mention that at the beginning, trying this method could be a completely disaster, but when you practice it; you start to feel confidence with this new way to teach. We should remember that we do not have to underestimate our students, because when they start with a new language; we could though that some activities are dificult for them, and we became it easily, and the activities...

Rate: 4  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 Ariaza and Mario Suárez Sánchez. Every student has the hability to be autonomy, to create a goal and find the way to do it. Also, every person has a different way to learn, and I think that as a human we can create our own way to learn; either using the methods that already exist or creating a new one. The important thing is to learn a new lenguage. The technology takes an important role when a person wants to learn a new language. Because, it can be used to find examples or exercise that may help in the learning process. In the article is mention that at the moment of teaching a second language is important to know the interest of each student and also the parts in which the student needs a reinforment. This helps them to make a meaningful learning for students and demonstrate that they...

Rate: 4 Based on the article "Computers and Language Learning: an Overview" by Mark Barschauer and Deborah Healey. As a future teachers is important to learn diferents kind of methods that will be useful for us when we develop a class. This article mention an important tool that we used nowadays. It talks about the computer and the impact in the language learning. The article said that the use of a computer in a language learning could facilitate the hability of fingertips and also learning to read, write and communicate through a computer. The use of a computer in a learning language process can be divide in behaviouristic CALL, communicative CALL and integrative CALL. The behaviouristic CALL is a stage in which the computer is use as a tutor and based on the article the best plataform is "Plato", because it has a system that use extensive drills, translations and grammatical explanations. In the communicative CALL stage said that this only use pre-fab...