Week 10

USING MOBILE DEVICES FOR TEACHING LANGUAGES

Kenia Veronica Menjivar Palencia

Article: Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom

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The article for this week about twenty ideas for using mobile phones in the language classroom is one of the best I have read on this course. Something that caught my attention about the article was the amazing ideas for use mobile devices (phones, tablets, iPad) for teaching language, as teachers this is very good idea, with use f mobile dev ices students can practice what have teacher in class at anywhere, because is easier and faster for students to use mobile devices.

Nowadays is more common the use of mobile devices to everything, most of the people is familiar to mobile devices because they use them in their daily life and if as teachers we take advantage of this technology and assigned activities for they to practice the language learning will be easy get them involved in the language. Teachers can assign tasks to students for writing, listening, speaking, and reading practice, I really like the idea of using mobile devices as a tool for teaching language, because the four skills can be assigned over a mobile device task.

Something that would like to remember about the article is of course that there are also some disadvantages with the use of mobile devices for teaching language, one of the most important thig is that teachers may consider the access to mobile devices or wireless that students may have. May exist the possibility that not all students have access to a phone, tablet, IPad or may be yes but they have not totally access to wireless connection, this could be a problem if teachers do not take this into consideration, teacher cannot assign an activity if the students have not access to do it, the purpose is that all the students can have access to make easier the learning process.

Techers needs to analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile devices for teaching and this is something that we can read about the article and take the best of it.

Week 9

USING WIKIS TO INCORPORATE WRITING SKILLS

Kenia Verónica Menjivar Palencia

Article: Online collaborating writing using Wikis

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The article for this week was very interesting because provides information about the use of software’s like wikis for the learning writing skills. I really like this article because is based on a experience of a teacher ad the use of wikis to incorporate students in learning writing skills. What caught my attention was how the teacher use this tool for writing competences and daily life, how the investigation showed how useful that the tool can be.

With the use of wikis, teachers can create them owns task for teaching, writing to the learners, also I think that is a good idea having students work in groups, because they can have more ideas and incorporate them better to solve the tasks.

 As teachers, we need to use technology to incorporate ideas for teaching English skills, people nowadays are very familiar with technology and they prefer everything online, using this kind of online tasks they get better the idea and work on it since home or on their cellphone at any time they want and is easy for teachers to monitor the student’s work.

what I learned reading this article was that is important to leave students express themselves working in groups as the article mentioned they can give their ideas and express better encouraging to provided ideas for the group activity. Using wiki students can improve their writing skills in a different way.

Week 8

Reading strategies for acquisition of new vocabulary

Kenia Verónica Menjivar Palencia

Articles: Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning and Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension.

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The articles from this week had very important information about vocabulary acquisition for new learners. Something that caught my attention was the information about dictionaries, how many dictionaries there are and how to take advantage of them. Dictionaries help students to acquire the language with the meaning of words. When we look for a meaning of a word we should for the best explanation, the article mentioned some dictionaries that can be used for the better acquisition of the meanings. What made me read more about was also how important is that as teachers we should encourage students to use the new vocabulary in context, if they look for the meaning but the teacher does not ask them to use in context the knowledge about the words will be forget easily.

what I liked about the second reading was that talked about the importance on reading for the acquisition of a foreign language the most students read the most vocabulary they get there is not point to ask students for looking new words at a dictionary just to know the meaning but they do not see it in context. With the reading that look out how can be use and how they can apply it to a conversation or writing task. Personally I thing that the best way of learn new vocabulary is reading if teachers provided some readings for students in which they can get vocabulary that maybe they never looked for in a dictionary will help to get better the new language.

Week 7

Technology for reading and writing skills.

Kenia Veronica Menjivar Palencia

Articles: Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction

                Using Internet Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL

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The articles that I read for this week were Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction and Using Internet Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL both of these articles were interesting for me I really liked that gives information about reading and listening skills, with the use of technology we can encourage children to practice at home by giving them web sites and which students could fine  readings or exercises for practice their English skills, with the use of technology students may fell motivated about the learning of the language because is more attractive to practice online with exercises that has sounds with the pronunciation of the words or images that they may caught their attention too, instead of the traditional classes with some hands outs with the exercises for practice.

Something that caught my attention and most with the reading of Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction was the idea or an online class in which  students can have a group for interact each other by sending emails and also making them work in online projects with the web site in English in order for them to acquire, with the use of it as a daily routine, will be easier for them if they see the use of the web sites as something  that they always had made, with the use of it students  are going to feel familiar with technology and feel motivated to practice alone at home and look for other web sites for practicing and not only what the teacher gives.