Computer Assisted Language Learning Blog

Today technology has become a major driving force in our life. We rely most of our life's business on the use of technology. Ranging from making phone calls, traveling distance places, making daily food, and handling various works. We use technology at home, in the office, at schools, and everywhere. In terms of schools, Technology today has contributed so much to the leap that makes education today develop faster and faster. But unfortunately technology may never be able to replace human teachers to educate (Wright, 2013). It is the only tool that may help teachers to ease them in educating people. In this session we will look at some tools that are available on the Internet that can help us store students learning progress information, communicate with students and parents, distribute quizzes, making wikis, sharing files, building class web, scheduling etc. Why classroom management is Important Managing Online Learner  A. Gradebook Engrade ( http://www.engra...

Having read the example of lesson plans above,  Now  consider yourself as a teacher who will use technology in your language class. Therefore, you will need to make a lesson plan. The following links provide information about Lesson Plannings. Read carefully to find out what should you be aware of when designing a lesson plan, for example Hereby my example of work done : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SyKdbmjqFFROucrwM9hw6ppmyBXUhLSw/view?usp=sharing

Teaching Listening Comprehension.  In teaching listening comprehension the focus of the teachers is to help students with techniques on how to listen. So tips on how to listen is very crucial to teach on the students. Below is a link that will take us to a website that gives us practical tips on how to teach listening skills: HOW TO TEACH LISTENING SKILLS  If we focus on the product of listening only then the tendency is that we do not teach listening rather we test listening. Then what are the strategies?  The following articles discuss theories about the development of listening skills, tips on how to deliver a listening activities and some practical tips on listening activities that can be performed by teachers and students while learning a language. Listening for young learners Teaching listening to college students The links  below inspire us with activities/Lesson plan that can be adapted to t...

A. Teaching Speaking The goal of language is communication. So whatever language we learn, wherever we learn, and we never we learn, the goal of language learning is always aimed at using it for communication. Although we may use it only for the receptive purposes such as listening and reading but it is also part of communication. For the productive skills like speaking and writing, the communication function is even more crucial. In this section we will look at why speaking skills is important, how to teach the skills? What teacher should know in order to better the speaking activities in a language class. Let's start by looking at the following sites which presents some useful tips on how to choose activities in a speaking class, and some consideration that teachers should know when planning a language instruction focusing on the teaching of speaking: 1. Oral Production in th second language classroom Teaching speaking skills in a cla...

Teaching Writing Writing is one of the skills that language learners need to learn besides the other three skills. But the question for teachers that often comes up is how to teach writing skills effectively? In order to know the answers to the above questions the following article gives us a walk-through of what is the process of writing development, what people usually write for, what might be the good strategies for teaching writing, is there a relationship between writing skills and other language skills? etc Beliefs about teaching writing How to effectively teach English writing skills Talking about teaching strategies, the following web-based seminar (WEBINAR) hosted by British council, is a good source for learning teaching writing strategies that can enrich our knowledge on teaching strategies. hereby my example of work done : https://youtu.be/h5zg-voKuNE