Week 9 - Mobile Phone in ESL Classroom

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Nowadays, the mobile is an important device in students’ life because the majority of younger learners have a mobile. Something that caught my attention from this article was the many ideas that ESL teachers might use with their students and also the social tools that mobiles offer to us. Besides, the use of mobile phones inside or outside the classroom is that they give students control over their own learning. Some activities that the article show us are: Use the voice memo recorder feature to record conversations outside the classroom in which students can record and make interviews or conversations from their own or to other students that help them to use the language that they are learning . Another thing that teachers can do with the mobile is use the Mobile phone for social networking as Facebook in which teachers may create a group to post general information about the subject that the teacher is giving also teacher can organize online activities. 
However, teacher need to take into account if all the students have a mobile device because maybe some of them do not have and this make them lack of motivation in students, but teachers need to be ready for those kind of thing and teacher should make pairs or groups in order that involve all the students in the activity. 
To conclude, it is important that teachers are updated every day in the area of technology to be able to use these resources in favor of the students.

Week 8 - Authentic Material in ESL

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My initial impression of this article was surprise how authentic material might help to students in their learning process. Nowadays, the Internet bring us many helpful ESL resources that teacher might use in classroom teaching because on the web exits a lot of tools online. Something that I learned from this article was how to make a lab session and how to apply authentic material in classroom. It is important that in lab sessions teachers take into account that is not just to students play on the computer or pass the time in front a computer because the  purpose is that students learn and practice a second language through authentic material as TV show, Radio, news broadcasts, documentaries, movies, and phone messages that reinforce the listening skill. 

Another type of authentic materials are photographs, art works, signs with symbols, postcards and picture book that reinforce the visual part of a lab session in classroom. Moreover, printed material as restaurant menus, sales catalogues, travel brochures, blogs, movie posters, and food labels helps in foreign classes.

Something i want to remember from the article is that authentic material plays an important part of students’ life and it is important that teachers introduce common things that happen in their real life for example if the vocabulary that the teacher is going to introduce is food he/she can be use food from their own country because this help to students to get a better idea of what the class is about. 

To conclude, incorporate authentic material in ESL classroom help in the process learning of students.

Week 7 - Acquiring Online Vocabulary

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The articles of this week caught my attention because show us how the technology can help to increase the vocabulary and reading comprehension of the students outside the classroom. Besides, technology can provides teachers a lot of tools to improve them their reading and comprehension and increase their vocabulary boost too. Students has many opportunities to practice their reading comprehension online because on the Internet they can find many articles to read and topics that catch their attention that is something good for them. Moreover, students should find any meaning of words on the Internet because they can download or use an online dictionaries. 
Something that I learned from the article Online English-English Learner was that on dictionaries as Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDCE) www.ldoceonline.com students might notice that this dictionary include corpus – based that describe how languages is actually used, word frequency that mean if the word is high frequency or low frequency used, collocations is the combinations word that normally go together, authentic  examples that illustrate the use of words in context, and finally topical vocabulary that means how the words relate semantically to different categories.
On the other hand, the article Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary mentioned that the better students’ vocabulary knowledge is, the better they perform with reading comprehension tasks because if students read using appropriate skills their vocabulary increase.
To conclude, that article help me to comprehend  how important it is to look for the meaning of words that we do not understand when we are reading a book or an article because only in that way can we understand what we read.

Week 6 - What important are writing and reading skills?

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The articles for this week share important information about writing and reading skills. Something that caught my attention in these articles was the many benefits that technology can provide to ESL. There are many websites in which students can practice and develop their skills also teachers can use the Internet in the classroom to enhance learning and achieve some teaching goals. Moreover, the readings implementation in English classes outside and inside the classroom helps students to increase their vocabulary, and acquire new vocabulary also their reading comprehension. For example the article from Literature mentioned that Children's Digital Library is a useful site that teachers in kindergartens can use because they can get a lot of stories that catch students' attention also the stories are be creative in order that kids may understand by pictures too.

Something i want to remember from the article Writing Instruction is how the Internet can be used to motivate students in their efforts to acquire English Proficiency Skills. Besides, Writing Instruction should be enriched with the Internet component, in order to provide students with choice, variety, and authenticity to given them a real purpose for writing, to allow them to experience the authentic written interaction with other people. Also, It is important that students can feel motivate using computer and the Web. This article mentioned as an example that E-mailing improve EFL learners' Reading and Writing abilities because is occupied with more technical aspects in the classroom. In addition, it is necessary that every day teachers and students should be aware of the possibilities give to them by the e-mail software. 

To conclude, the writing and reading skills are very important in students' life for that reason it is important  the  development of these skills through the Internet, which is easier and helps the students to acquire new knowledge.