There are many web pages that can be used to teach and make the students produce a new language, they are really interesting and with a correct use they are really worthy.
Some web pages are devoted to develop specific skills in the students, well, actually they help in the current activities done by teachers, the activities are varied and begin with basic things just for making the students get confidence in those activities.
Sometimes we do not know there is this kind of help just in our hands, that is because the lack of the time and the unflexible schedules and activities carried out by teachers, but if we want to improve the level of acquisition of our students we must use all the help we can have, in this case the web pages with lots of activities.
It is easy to use technology when we have the desire to help others, just look at the web pages suggested by the instructor, they are easy to handle, and the activities are really fun and engaging, the video and the MP3 files help in the process of practicing and producing the language.
Another important fact is that the students can check their progress, so they have the chance to repeat what seems difficult and they have the chance to improve something that is weak, besides there are also themes of interest that young people like, those actual facts are what they want and the vocabulary acquired is useful and real.
You think of giving your students better tools, so it means you are thinking to include these kinds of activities in your daily class, for sure they will enjoy solving them and checking at the same time their level of knowledge.
I found some pages really interesting but I think there are in the web many pages that we can use, the idea is to put into practice and engage the students so we have to be skillful when proposing them the activites because many of the students do not like to participate in extra curricular activities, they think what is learnt in class is enough, that is a normal problem we have to face in our classess , but let's be positive and we will succeed.
Marcos Morales
When you begin doing something new , it seems that all you have learnt before is not enough, what a great experience?!! Now, I am interested in learning the use of this new tool, well, actually I have to learn more about this new issue because I feel that being a blogger could be a nice thing.
Hello Marcos,
ReplyDeleteReally nice job with your blog. One of the things that I also like about technology is that students can feel confident to produce the language in any of the four skills, they love using internet and this is the way how learners can feel good. I agree that sometimes being a teacher involves many activities to do and we may do not have too much time to explore all the useful pages that we have, but let's do our best to try to do an excellent job which enriches our students. It is certainly true that learners can check their progress, this is one of the benefits that working with internet provides, therefore we have to encourage students to use internet and solve some of the motivation problems.
Let's keep learning and motivating our students to use technology since this is one of the sources of knowledge and information, but do not forget that the interaction person to person is also important.
Best,
Mory-Ecuador
Hi Marcos,
ReplyDeleteWhat you think is true, I know when we have more opportunities and when we start doing something new, we realize that everything we know it is not really enough and then we analyze that we need to improve ourselves; also we learn some useful procedures for being better professionals in our subject.
Internet has developed in a fast way and benefits us with powerful information which is ready for our research and needs.
Santiago Mayorga