New trends in Technology and English Teaching by DORA VARGAS

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Dora Vargas READING COMPREHENSION

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1. What are your perceptions on the Use of Blogs for EFL Learning? (English as a foreign language)

Reading and writing in blogs, allow that learning to be positive, because it develops reading and writing skills.
The blog offers different possibilities for both parties (students and teachers), because in the blog you can keep a record, facilitate interaction and collaboration.

Students think that the blog is a great tool to learn a second language, which allows learning step by step but it is very important that teachers know their students to feel safe and confident to participate in the blog. Therefore, it is necessary to plan a method with student participation where income is evidenced and has a clear objective, with the possibility of analyzing and discussing the results.

2. Which ones are the alternatives in ELT methodology?
Students should actively use WebQuest to achieve their purpose. Developing critical thinking that involves "problem solving, judgment, analysis or synthesis"

Pedagogical implications of WebQuests are the pedagogical implications that their use promises to the innovative teacher.

WebQuests presents a unique opportunity to combine a wide range of effective educational practices in an activity, integrating technology, collaborative learning, critical thinking, authentic assessment, and constructivism.

It is important to increase the motivation of students to learn through authentic tasks that require them to solve a problem, to make a comparison and construct a hypothesis in relation to a real situation using real sources.

Develop critical thinking skills again through the use of a real-life situation. The elements of cognitive psychology and constructivism are embedded in the task of WebQuest, as students are not only compelled to understand the information collected, but also to analyze, synthesize and transform it into something new by adding their own perspectives.

These alternatives should draw the student’s attention when doing the tasks, having a clear purpose, with reliable resources and a reflection on the acquired learning.

Finally, these methodologies should increase students' exposure to the English language, understand that the internet is a source of learning, to improve critical thinking skills of students, provide a means for cooperative learning.

3. What are the students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses?
The students felt positive about their ability to use the Wiki and receive feedback from their peers despite having some mistakes in using this new tool. Students also showed progress in grammar and content organization and felt able to handle Wiki.

Social interaction is well accepted because it allows receiving feedback from peers. However, other students need constant teacher support to use Wiki with autonomy but students should be aware that their learning depends on their own commitment.

In conclusion, the teacher is fundamental in the use of this tool to promote autonomous learning with the ability to solve difficulties and develop virtues in students.

4. How can we integrate critical Approach to Second Language Learning?
It is the autonomy of each student to develop critical thinking and this depends on their true interest in learning a second language, but this is only achieved with accompaniment the teacher to guide learning and develop different strategies, methodologies and alternatives with the help of the internet

The strategies and alternatives presented here have that purpose, the development of critical thinking. Allowing them to analyze, investigate, judge and clear questions, knowing that their sources are reliable.

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Conceptual Map by Dessy Caballero

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READING COMPREHENSION

dessyalbeny — 2017-05-13 16:34:22 UTC

1. What are your perceptions on the Use of Blogs for EFL Learning?

Blogs allow as virtual students not only read but we produce what we understand, is a way to develop our reading and writing skills, It is also a way of learning from the other and we can share our opinions based on a theme and not only for the group at the time are contributions that build new knowledge, then I think it's a technological tool that facilitates us to learn EFL propitious at any level

2. Which ones are the alternatives in ELT methodology?

Due to the great amount of information that we find and that if it is not used correctly this

It is important to implement WebQuests since it is planned, designed and oriented a process of teaching – learning where strengthens in the student analysis, critical thinking,

The power to link what you know with the challenge you face And to be able to understand it.

3. What are the students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses?

Wiki technology favors learning English since feedback among peers it allows to identify and correct errors at the time of writing and this is done in a participatory and collaborative manner, the fact that interact with classmates and the teacher so that feed and you can edit a task with a common goal to deliver.

4. How can we integrate critical Approach to Second Language Learning?

When we comment and we appreciate the contributions of our classmates, I think we are strengthening our critical thinking, because it socializes and is discussed in order to negotiate and solve an activity, to accomplish this is necessary to argue it and justify

so that it is evident that we understand the subject that we have prepared to participate and interact.

Reading Comprehension ANGELICA CUELLAR HEREDIA

angelicach99 — 2017-05-13 18:37:41 UTC

1. What are your perceptions on the Use of Blogs for EFL Learning?

In my perception, I think that the use of blog is very stimulating for learning English, because is an interactive place where the group can be to work united and can be guided by the teacher, in which all the participants to enter different task and share information, the design of the blogs is clean and colorful, and is a good way to attract students attention. Improve skills as reading, the writing the grammar, and the students learn new vocabulary.

2. Which ones are the alternatives in ELT methodology?

The webquest is a method use by the teachers for learning English in the web, the teacher is a facilitator and to enter the resources and the students send many information and share, chose the information, and developed capacities as analysis, creativity, and criticism.

The Direct Method

In this method the teaching is only in the second language, the students don’t speak in their mother tongue, is important the good pronunciation.

Audio-lingual

The listening is very important in this method, the teacher bring dialogues of situations and is made for acquiring habits.

The structural approach

This method is based only in the grammatical rules. The time is administrate for the techar and students revise the contents and

Total Physical Response (TPR)

It’s a method for compression and the teacher give a little task

Communicative language teaching (CLT)

The learner to say and communicate about different topics.

The Silent Way

In this method the students don’t use the mother language

3. What are the students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses?

The perceptions that the students have of integrating Wiky technology and peer feedback, are generally positive, because this tool allows to communicate instantly with the teacher, learn from the grammatical mistakes that they make in their writing, learn vocabulary, To receive The feedback of the peers is learned more assertively, to be taken corrections in the kindest and closest way that maybe the teacher-student relationship don’t have, However, for another students the access to a new technology is not so easy, they prefer the traditional method , as paper and pencil method, or some prefer to receive feedback only from their teacher.

4. How can we integrate critical Approach to Second Language Learning?

Teachers should encourage this ability in students, through methodologies, activities and materials. Critical thinking is the ability of individuals to delve into their own thoughts and take a stand in front of them, critical thinking aims at achieving understanding, evaluating different perspectives, and solving problems.

In fact, the material is important because the teacher must provide to the students material that can be analyzed, synthesized, deliberated, debated about, classified in different ways,

When learners gain a deeper understanding of content matter and its relationship with self and society, their effort for controlling their own learning increases (Kusaka& Robertson, n.d.).

In the activities the teacher must give activities which the students become more investigative, active and questioning. As, group work, project based work, and presentation skill

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RECORDING BY ANGELICA CUELLAR

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Recording by Olga Rivera

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Olga Rivera Reading comprehension What are your perceptions on the Use of Blogs for EFL Learning? Blogs are an excellent tool for EFL collaborative learning, they are user-friendly and help strengthen writing skills as well as strengthening reading skills. To complete the tasks of a blog and chronological assignments in a classroom, after finishing editing a new post or writing a comment on a blog, possibility of interaction and collaboration. It is easy to find previous tasks. We use blogs to record observations, interviews and reflect on articles in magazines or newspapers, help gain a perception about the use of blogs to have a meaningful understanding. 2. Which ones are the alternatives in ELT methodology?Some of the alternatives in ELT methodology as the Division of Modern Languages that provides English courses for students studying in several departments, and one of its objectives is to link the language concepts used in departments by leveraging resources on the Internet. Research is conducted on various aspects of educational technology, including blogs, web quest, web pages, wikis and lexical analysis and vocabulary.The underlying principles essential in the design and implementation of WebQuests contribute a reason and motivation for students to learn English with real tasks relevant to their activities as they exploit the richness of the Internet. WebQuests have ampler implications for supporting students develop better literacy, despite when English is not their mother tongue. The impact that technology has had on our lives today, mainly the internet transcends the cultural, spatial boundaries; It covers the developed and developing worlds; They have a mailing address or website become as common as having a phone and now ELT practitioners are experimenting with the use of blogs and wikis in their teaching contexts.Currently, we have applications specialized in topics, as well as speech recognition programs to practice our pronunciation. Questionnaires with results to assess and value our learning ability. We use it to communicate with each other daily, every hour or instant basis; We go to her to learn more about the issues that concern us; We can travel the furthest corners of the world in an instant. We play games to have fun, download music, and videos, and make schools, as prototypes of the communities we live in, must obviously provide an education that not only embraces the Internet but also equips our students with the ability to use any information. The technological advances that will lead in the future) wisely, productively and for the benefit of society. 3. What are the students’ perceptions of integrating Wiki technology and peer feedback into English writing courses?Wikis are applications that currently make a significant contribution to the development of education especially to generate feedback among peers into English writing courses, as a simple and easy to use database, which allows users to create, edit, delete or modify the content of a website, in an interactive, easy and fast way these facilities make this site an effective tool for collaborative writing, allowing it to be edited by several users.The wiki technology allows web pages to be written collaboratively through a browser, using a simple notation to format, create links, preserving a history of changes that allow us to easily retrieve any previous state of the page. The importance of this tool for the development of the educational process is to provide and share the information necessary to educate society in the context of information, in order to eliminate the digital divide between the process partners, one of the main advantages of this process Tool is that we can edit and improve the contents that are published there, facilitating their updating through the text editor.4. How can we integrate critical Approach to Second Language Learning?Cooperation between students and teachers in the EFL classroom; It is necessary to promote digital culture, together with the setting of objectives, and to determine the categories of students by age, Because for no one is a secret that digital natives learn at a different pace than for members of another generation, to evaluate their digital competencies. Measuring cooperation between faculty and students in the EFL classroom. Webogogy and e-university suggest that e-learning is different from traditional, it is by no means the case that these forms of learning are mutually exclusive.

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