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By: Angela Benitez Urrego

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By: Angela Benitez Urrego
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By: Lyna Johanna Estrella
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By: Rosario Montaña G.

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By: Lyna Johanna Estrella

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Critical Approach to Second Language Learning

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Critical Approach to Second Language Learning

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One of the tools that are interest in promoting critical thinking is the webquest.   This resource give us some examples of how can we integrate critical approach in order to enforce this though.  One of the options to promote critical approach is through the important controversial topics related to real life, in order to not only answer simple questions but also contribute with solutions or explanation about possible causes and consequences of those problematic, critical approaches are related with the solving problems strategies or possible solutions.

By: Lyna Johanna Estrella

The importance of a society in critical approach

Our society goes faster every day, and the way that we see our education goes by its hand, new methods are more intelligent and more practice to learn another language,  we can find actual methods that students interact each other or developing aptitudes to add new skills in a new language. Activities that help students to generate critical approach accepting and analyzing the new material to learn a new language, sharing in an appropriate way with their environment with other people

By: Jorge Andres Montoya

Critical approach and research

The critical approach promotes research, in teaching a foreign language is not just the recipients of knowledge, it is also important to inquire about new teaching methods according to the needs of the current population, in this way Critical approach requires that the teacher can go beyond, investigate and propose new things that fit the process of teaching and learning, this requires that the teacher has knowledge of its students, not as a group but as a group with different peculiarities that Should be taken into account when teaching.

By: Rosario Montaña Garzon

The learning of a language is successful when the students use learning strategies, using the technologies as an educational médium, it is also necessary to motivate the student to learn a second language, as well as an active and creative participation of the student

By: Angela Viviana Benitez

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Students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses

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Students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses

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All the perceptions of wiki technology and peer feedback are very interesting when we try to implement them in writing courses, each one help to students to develop aptitudes that easily promote English learning and teaching. These tools are modern and very good to implement in classrooms

Wiki technology is a good tool to practice in English writing courses, because helps to develop collaborative activities and motivating writing skills by social platforms, viewing and editing new information to interact between them to get better skills in English writing.

Peer feedback is a good common method to learn a new language; to students this is an excellent mode to learn, because they can interact in peers to learn from the other person, working together to develop their skills in English writing skills.

By: Jorge Andres Montoya.

student's opinions

Some students consider this tool as useful because it permits hat students practice and improve their writing and reading skills.  This resource facilitates to learn more vocabulary and grammar structures in order to communicate well. However there are some students that mention this tools it is not useful for learning a second language and it is a basic resource that just permits to get communicate but it does not have any implication in a English learning process.  However, even the different opinions peer feedback allows the social relations among people, it works with the Vigotsky theory, in fact it promotes the relation among learners by motivating the interaction and interchange of different topics. This tool has the ability of work in relationships around a specific topic  putting together different opinions and ideas in the same window.

by: Lyna Johanna Estrella

Is a wiki a good opportunity?

Some students considered that the wiki is a good opportunity for their learning process and, also value the suggestions and feedback given by their peers, as they considered that it was a good strategy to promote interaction and collaborative work, based on the knowledge of each one of them.

However, like the other tools mentioned above, the success of its use depends on the teacher initially explaining clearly the goal and the management that should be given to wikis, since all students do not possess the same skills against technological tools

Also, according to the text there are students who do not like to be fed by their own classmates, they prefer that the teacher is to orient and feedback all activities, here, the teacher should be facilitator of the process of adaptation of the student to these new spaces or else the proposed objectives will not be met.

Finally, although wikis are a very good tool, you must take into account the difficulties presented so that you can work on them and make the process something better and better.

By: Rosario Montaña Garzon

The technology Wiki is very important for a foreing language class what is important is to know that in the collaborative platform student´s writing skills and group feedback and social interaction are improved, as it is very important in the proccess of collaborative writing.

By: Angela Benitez Urrego

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The texts that it were read before, mention the importance of wikis, webquest and blogs. These tools are important resources to develop ELT methodologies due to they promote the autonomy and the effort for reading and writing, theses activities are important in the develop of a second language due to this technology  work as a way to communicate with others through texts uploaded in a blog or the hard work of a number of activities in a webquest with a purpose in a long or short term or the possibility  to innovate by creating sheets or activities to share with others during the learning process. These tools permit to have the opinions of the participants and their perceptions about the topics exposed in the platforms and how the tools are working with them.

By: Lyna johanna Estrella

Example of ELT technology

WebQuest are a very useful alternative in methodology to learn or teach english language, it stimulates collaborative learning with information that students can find on the internet.

This method contains six points to develop or use it: introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion.

By: Jorge Andres Montoya.

Alternatives for the teachers

With the rise of technology, today, educators have many practical tools to develop their teaching processes, according to the readings one of them as mentioned above is the blog, a tool on which the teacher can approach different topics of Interest for your students.

Also exist other tools like a Web quests, what are an oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet, this activity favors the activation of students' previous knowledge, their interaction with the contents to be learned, with their teacher and with their classmates; That is, it stimulates collaborative learning and motivates students to do something with the information they retrieve from the internet.

And finally, wikis that are websites, whose pages can be edited directly from the browser, where users create, modify or delete content they generally share. All these tools allow the student to develop skills necessary for language learning.

By: Rosario Montaña Garzon

The promotion and development of the concept of webQuest. Here it is necessary to repeat a well-know  fact  that the use of technology does not replace the role of the teacher classroom. On the contrary, the use of webQuest highlights the importance of the teacher in setting up the task relevant to the needs of the learners. The teacher´s primary role is to serve as a facilitor, using their knowledge about the educational background of the students in order to decide on how the students themselves can best advance their own intellect. Despite the fact that the sources on the internet provide a great learning opportunity, specially through the use of innnovative approaches like WebQuest, it is the teachers who play the crucial role in successfully conceiving, designing, implementing and evaluating WebQuest.

The underling principles inherent in the design and implementation of WebQuest provide a reason and motivation for students to use and produce english with real task relevant to their departments while exploiting the richness of the internet. It can be further surmised that the use of WebQuest has broader implications in helping students develop better digital literacy, even when english is not their native language.

By: Angela Viviana Benitez

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Blogs are very useful tool to learn english. and by the hand with teachers, it's a very important tool in all this process called education, because all this new tools are in there hands, they will be able to handle all the topics and objectives by the constructivist approach and that makes them use a new way to teach what they want to.

by: Jorge Andres Montoya

What is a blog?

Blog is an important tool that not only can provide activities to write or read, I consider the blog an element which can improve English skills while it is giving information in order to fill the cultural knowledge in people.   The new technologies permit for teacher to have more options to teach in different ways by using a method totally interesting for learners due to is a way to know new people and share their opinions with people from other cities in the same country or even from another country. This kind of tool motivates learners to become more recursive and search for more information in order to have something to talk to anybody.

by: Lyna Johanna Estrella

Why a blog?
According with the readings I think that the blogs are a very good tool for the teachers and the students in the process of learning a new language, in this case English, because is a tool very flashy and allows students to express their comments while learning and interacting with the other participants of these spaces, it also stimulates the creativity of students who are in the process of learning a foreign language.

However, for this tool to meet the objective that the teacher proposes, the instructions for use and handling of the blog should be clear, taking into account that not all students have the same ability to use technological tools.

By: Rosario Montaña Garzon

When students are familiar with the use of blogs as learning tools, teachers can allow students to use blogs both in class and after class meetings. The students are more accustomed to using blogs and have no difficulty in using blogs to work collaboratively in groups, teachers could have students fully use blogs after class meeting. In addition, with respect to the readings published on the teacher´s blog, teachers can publish articles that students.

Students persuade blogs in a positive way after using blogs, because they are easy to use and the students think positively and work in groups, blogs have the potential to advance the literacy, it is very important that the teacher has mastery of the topic and transmiting better knowledge, it is very important that they adopt methods such as interviews, observations and reflective journals of students to obtain a more complete understanding of students perceptions.

By: Angela Viviana Benitez