Reading Reaction 2: Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities. In my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives. Therefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.
Reading Reaction 2: Classroom Practice: Creating Interactive CALL Activities.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, creating interactive CALL activities for an EFL classroom is something that should be implemented in the schools from elementary to college, of course, with the adequate adaptation for each level. Something that called my attention about this article is the fact that there exist a lot of activities through which students can learn not only the target language but also they can develop others attitudes and abilities. Attitudes and abilities such as being proactive, cooperative, creative, critical, generate new ideas, sharing opinions, negotiation, as well as cooperative work, taking decisions and solving problems. But, unfortunately, non- of these can happen if there is not an adequate planning and equipment to fulfill the necessary requirements to develop CALL activities; but the most important of all is that the educator or facilitator also has to fulfill a series of requirements or skills in the new tech, to be able to implement such kind of class activities in order to be successful and reach the traced objectives.
Therefore, educators must be well trained to integrate the CALL activities in the process of learning a foreign language in a foreign environment and at the same time deal with the students’ attitude toward the new technology. The teacher has to know when he or she can use the CALL activities because there are going to be some lessons that can be more successful using this kind of activities and some others that not much, besides; the educator must know how to organize and apply the CALL activities to achieve the objectives. Also, the educator has to be aware of some of the students’ attitudes toward the new tech and change it to a more intelligent way to use technology, it means, teach the students how to use the new tech to help them build up their own knowledge. Due to, many students think that internet and the new tech is just for social network, entertainment, cheating information like cutting and pasting, and using a translator to do their school assignments.