Technology and Second Language Teaching (Technology and Languange Learning - TLL )

Technology is a tool can make our life easier. As students, we are using technology for support our business like assignments. Even for teachers, technology also helping them for makes a learning process interesting. Technology is developing superbly fast. Every years, all of scientists always founded invention from each them sector. For example, now days we can use a pen for write something on a paper. Can you imagine that long time ago, if the people wanted to wrote, they must use ink directly on a paper. So, it is hard and an inefficient.

Basically, technology in the classroom develops step by step according to Language Teaching Method. It has five parts. Maybe for that article only mentioned about Grammar translation, but in facts has five parts. The first is Grammar Translation. In this step tends to explaining about grammatical rules, the teachers only using a whiteboard and a marker as a tools teaching. Second is Audio-Lingualism. The teacher expects their students can memorizing dialogues. But the weakness is the students tend to memorized only language form not daily communication. Third is Direct Method. The teacher more has interactions with their students, like question and answer session using slide presentation. Fourth is total physically response and suggestopedia as a fifth.

Technology has two sides as tools are advantages and disadvantages according to that article. From my experienced self, technology has been a good point for me, like social networking (Facebook, twitter, blog, etc), email, search engine (Google). Those are things make me easier to get new information.  Especially for social network like twitter, I can meet my old friends who before we are not kept contact each other’s but with twitter we have communicated again. Not only those things, has laptop also had a role important because it is a like storage which can save all of my files. Skype is the most important things also, because with that we can communicate with see our picture, even if our in different countries. Not only good points but also technology has bad points. Now days, Facebook became a media for we know and introduce with another one even they are stranger for us. Based on this condition, kidnapping became important issues in Facebook. Because, before happened about that news. So, in my opinion, it depends on the individual person who using technology. We are must aware how to use technology as well as we need. If we using technology appropriate, so we will be safe. But if we are using technology inappropriate, we will be receiving risks from technology itself.

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