Journal of English Language Teaching

English language teaching through technology: Emerging possibilities

Jayaprakash A

Govt. Women’s Polytechnic College, Nedupuzha, Thrissur

Keywords: English language teaching, Technology in language teaching

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Abstract

This paper tries to explore how the widespread percolation of technology in our daily life can be used favourably for English language teaching and learning. The learning spaces created through the establishment of language labs in schools and colleges could be expanded to include smartphones and wearable devices. Such liberating spaces can not only make language learning interesting, but also render it flexible to the varying levels of the learners. There are also possibilities of combining electronic language learning with traditional classroom methods. Technology is not new to the contemporary learner, though it might be to some members of the teaching community. The present learner is born into the world of technology and therefore, any classroom divorced from technology would make the learner feel like fish out of water. But with technology, the modern student can be scaffolded from “remembering” to “creating”, which is the ultimate stage in Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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