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.