This article is focused on speaking and listening skills online, and how the internet offers a better developing of those skills for students of a second language. In the beginning, this article surprised me because it says that while traditional teaching method on classrooms is focused on writing and reading, the opportunities to develop speaking and listening have increased thanks to internet.
I want to remember how CALL has grown up in a few years, and the benefits that has brought for students of ESL. George M. Chinnery quote “According a report issued by the United Nation’s Conference on Trade and Development, the number of people worldwide with access to the Internet grew 20 percent between 2001 and 2002; during this period the number of users in developed countries increased by a modest 12 percent, while the number of users in developing countries grew a more impressive 40 percent”. This means that users of the internet have grown up a lot every year, and with that also the sources and websites for students of ESL have grown too.
Something that teachers should know is the importance of the internet to develop speaking and listening skills, they should start to apply live chats, voice chats and create chat rooms or use the chat rooms that are mention in the article like Dave’s ESL Cafe Chat Central, English Club ESL Chat, ALOUD etc.
Something that I learned and I want to share with a colleague is the importance that speaking and listening skills must take on classrooms, and that teachers and future teachers should start using activities from internet in classrooms to create a better developing of speaking and listening skills on students and not just be focused on writing and reading skills. . score: 4
Hello, Manuel.
ResponderEliminarI want to say that I kind of aggre with you when you stated that what surprised you was that while traditional method on classrooms is focused on writing and reading, the opportunities to develop speaking and listening had increased thanks to internet. And I said that I kind of agree with you because I have been to a classroom as a teacher assistant, and the teachers were old teachers who were raised during the traditional method. However, in a public school were I served as teacher assistant, the teacher focused more only in writing; the teacher did not actually helped much to develop listening and speaking. And in another school, the teacher encouraged students to produce speaking, writing, listening and reading. So, it is amazing that people have access to internet, but in some schools, internet is not a resource applicable to the syllabus; moreover, students, if they are not encouraged, do not use internet to practice even though there are many sources which can help them enhance their abilities.
To conclude, I agree with you when you stated that teachers should apply live chats, voice chats, create chat rooms or use chat rooms, but the counterpart of that is in regards to the lack of attention to education in our country. If there were an investment in education, those methods could be applied to the syllabus in schools; therefore, as far as applying those techniques concern, they could be only applied on private schools, academies, or universities.
Good job, fella.