Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Technology and ESOL

In these times there are many ways to learn English by using new technology, such as computers, Internet, smart boards, notebooks, palms, digital libraries .....etc. So all these tools are beneficial and interesting to build our skills in English (listening, speaking, reading and writing).
Especially the world wide web has opened a whole new world to learn English.
By using technology learners can communicate with others. They can exchange ideas and get plenty of practice in an email and a discussion room or forum. Also learners can have a live conversation with new people and listen to their recordings by using YouTube for example. They can also leave recorded messages in some online applications, like
voice thread.
Furthermore learners can study online or in virtual classes because on the Internet there are different courses. During these courses they can do many exercises about grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and they can improve themselves in reading and writing and in using digital libraries. Also they can test themselves after each course and see the feedback of the result . learning with technology is more exciting.
Finally, learning with new technologies is more fun. More learning and less marking because they can listen to songs and watch videos. Also they can can do online quizzes and play educational games.
As we see above technology is a fantastic tool to learn and improve our skills in our foreign language.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Rola for this very good example of persuasive text or exposition. Can you think of another topic that would be good to write more texts using the same genre?

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