Use of Computer in Teaching in Our Country(Assignment 2)

                                       

Reasons for using internet in ELT:

                                                 
                                                          There man reasons for using computer in ELT such as to get information, communicate with others as well as socialization & mobilization.

Effectiveness of computer in ELT:
          
                                                         In many cases using computer is effective for the learners & teachers. It motivates learners by reducing anxieties. Besides it also engage them to learn. As they practice all the things practically it become autonomous among them. In addition it can play important roles like:

1)As a tutor:
It gives advice to the learners, analyzes the information as well as it has so many activities for practicing.

Grammar girl: In giving advices, it gives the space to the beginner level learners to differentiate between two words, different between verb & noun, improve writing, practice through different interesting way.

COCA ( Corpus of Contemporary American English): For analyzing, this is a tool by which learners can find out different words & usages of these.

Free rice: In activities part, this is one of the tools to improve the vocabulary level from easy to difficult level. Here learners will be inspired through motivational words & for each correct meaning they give rice. Beside this the mistakes answer again come to make the learners practiced.

2)As a tool:
                     It can be said as a tool where it is used for creativity, for communications as well as collaboration.

3)As a stimulus:
                            It motivates students by proving practical & enjoyable activities.

Blooms taxonomy in digitally (based on cognitive load): We can use Blooms Taxonomy in digitally to make the learners active through computer. The stages are described briefly below:

Creating: learners can create different programs like wiki, blog, face book etc.

Evaluating: In evaluating learners can do experiment, judge, comment, hypothesis etc.

Analyze: Through compare, organize, outline, linking etc learners can participate in analyze part.

Applying: learners can apply their implementation of works, carry out, share, edit etc.

Understanding: Through the described works, learners can interpret, summarize, categorize etc.

Remembering: learners can also remember factual or bullet point etc.

Blogs:

   It is a kind of Electronic journal & personal diary. Anyone can write whatever he want where there is no restriction because it’s everyone’s personal book. In addition anyone can criticize or praises the blogs of others. It is a very strong tool. It’s a kind of strong platform to reach to the people. For example: Shahbagh’s incident happened in our coutry.. Besides this, it can be act as a tutor, learner & class.

Wiki:
             This helps learners to create his or her own page which motivates as well as inspires learners to make them confidant.

Teaching speaking & listening using computer:

                                                                                 In SLA (second language acquisition) the role speaking is undeniable & this is why we have to give focus on speaking which helps learners to listen as well. Speaking is related with thinking of message, negotiate meaning, produce comprehensible output, hypothesizing etc.

Oral interaction can be two types such as informative and interactive. Informative oral interactions are like routines, scripts which can be put in formal situations. On the other hand interactive oral interactions are like dialogue exchange with goes under informal situations. in these case we can use technology by using drilling sessions as well as watching movie sessions.

It is also important to focus on the pronunciation of the learners. There are many approaches to teach pronunciations. These are:

1) Intuitive -imitative approach:
                                                        In this case learners listen & repeat where there is no interaction. By using audio materials this can be done which helps learners to develop their listening as well as speaking skills.

2) Analytic -linguistic approach:
                                                         In this case learners can learn explicit, structural speech by using different chart speech and phonetic alphabet.

3) Current integrative approach:
                                                      In this case pronunciation is not taught separately where it gives more focus on super segmental of stress such as stress, rising tone etc rather than sound of letter.

Teaching reading using computer:

                                                             In teaching we can easily use technology to teach the learners easily where it makes students engaged as well as give practical situations to learn effectively. here the main important thing is to use skills, strategies & disposition of skills & strategies in term of searching information so that we could get the exact information within a short time.

There are 3 things we have to do before searching an answer. In the beginning we have to be focused on a specific topic with exact words & phrases, then in the searching part we have to search what we are supposed to get & then finally we have to evaluate as well as communicate with the information whether the information is exact or not. Finally we have to cite our sources that from where we got the information.

Here a teacher can instruct the students in term of how to read as well as how to search any information on the internet. on the other hand a teacher has to be expert in internet workshop like what is internet, the power of it, how to find an information & in internet scavenger hunts like which provides structural platform with a set of tasks that require students to locate piece of information.

Teaching writing using computer:
                                                            Role of writing is SLA (second language acquisition) is very important & the writing part is integrally linked with reading part. Reading and writing emphasize the importance of schemata which is the background knowledge of the learners. Most importantly writing task deals with three parts such as Pre writing, while writing and post writing.

Pre writing has done with brain storming or free writing & by using blogs; face book a students can does this easily.
While writing is interactive & it is done with the main content which is the product of the learners.

Finally in post writing a learner can edit through revision & importantly in blogs or Face book or other web activities the editing part in included which can help learners. Writing can be different types such as grammar based, discourse structure based such as narration, comprehension, dialogue exchange etc.

There are many students who do not want to share their feelings or opinions through speaking in front of the class & in this case computer helps them to enhances their ideas by using blogs, Wikipedia, Face book, twitter etc to develop their writing skills.