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Hello everybody, my name is Ingrid Melani Orellana Gavidia, i am 24 years old and i am studying English teaching at Don Bosco University. I love to spend time to my family and go out with them also i am married, but i do not have children for the moment because i want to finish my career. Besides, I love to cook and listen to music. Also, i really want to improve my technological skills in this course because i think that is a very useful tool and as a future teacher i need to be prepared for that area.
Week 1- CALL is in teachers and students life.
My impression of this article was surprise to see how CALL (computer-assisted language learning) helps to teachers and students in different ways because has a great variety of tools. It is relevant to see how the CALL has evolved over the years because in the past no all the computers had not access to Internet because some of them were creative just for specific jobs, but nowadays CALL is a useful tool in human's life because everything about information is there in the web. Also technology is a big key for teachers in school because through of that they can give a class in a online app and exchange feedback quickly or details about a class by e-mail with their students and i think that e-mail is more polite than others web sites.
Something i want to remember from this article is some of the activities that people can perform through CALL software in which includes grammar practice, vocabulary drill, pronunciation programs that incorporate graphics, audio recording, playback and video voice. Besides, computers help us to creative new material for classes as crossword and puzzles. What surprised me in this article was all the websites that mentioned for example, crossword creator in which website we can creative our own crossword and this is new for me because i did not that exists those types of website.
Something that learned from this article is that the writing process is an area where computers have added a great deal value and help students in the pre-writing stage to generate them a hight level in their writing skill.
To conclude, the technology is a very good tool to improve student's skills. I being honest at the beginning the article was bored, but at the end i liked it.
