Week 6: How Technology Wages the Language War For Us
In this week's unit, I was exposed to a very large amount of tools and how they can help us in our language teaching. As I read the words on my screen, the ideas of how to integrate the tools into my practice teaching (which after this semester is ending, but no worries, next year I will have the chance to implement them) starting dancing around my brain. So without further ado… the five tools and my opinion as to how it can be used in such a way that makes our lives as teachers easier. 1) Voice Chat - specifically - Whatsapp Voice Chat. You know how in the classroom not everyone gets a chance to speak? And how when we tell our students to create dialogues we never have enough time to go through them? Or how there are always those students who feel uncomfortable speaking in front of their peers? Whatsapp Voice Chat is a wonderful way to work on speaking skills that doesn’t require much class time, nor does it require public speaking. The great thing is that most if...