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ICTs in English Teaching

By Adriana Perez Carreño Chairez

June, 2013

The idea of a young boy that is carrying around boring books about English and gets sent a room to hear a teacher talk about a language he doesn’t understand, can turn out to be absurd. Especially because kids these days are exposed to many technologies at a very early age, and the way they learn is changing. That is why integrating ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) into English teaching seems to be a necessary issue for educators in the world. However, implementing ICTs can imply a big investment and if teachers cannot make good use of these tools, the money and time spent on them is going to be a waste. Also, if the educational budget is limited, looking for a cost-effective and highperformance ICT can be the first priority.

Talking about education is interacting with the evolutional process of teaching techniques and learning concepts, starting from a new historic and theoretical foundation. In this matter, the different educational modalities are an answer to all the needs and demands of any generational, social, cultural, economic, and individual order that modify the dynamics of communication and interaction between the participants of the educational act.

In today’s society, using conventional means to educate becomes harder, because we cannot achieve an educational structure that can meet the current demand of education. It is imperative the transformation of the traditional teacher-centered model to the learner-centered model which benefits the development of not only the student’s ability of using English but also their autonomy of learning. Most significantly, it guarantees the rapid development of education.

To achieve an effective teaching methodology, it is important to have structuring principles using the internet multimedia-based English teaching. Only by a combination of pedagogical theories and teaching expertise with the merits of new technology, could the teacher design effective teaching strategies that take into consideration all the aspects of the classroom teaching, like types of media, the size and difficulty of information, as well as the topicality, and evaluation of the tasks.

Source: http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jun13/sart02.htm