According to Warschauer, Language teaching developed along with technology. Perhaps not because of technology development, but it definitely contributed to the way English is taught today. Bax argues that only when technology is fully integrated with people and normalized, will education be truly technological. When it first appears, new technology tends to cause awe or disbelief. However, as time passes, the piece of technology tends to insert itself in everyday life and become something natural, not exciting anymore. Finding the actual role technology play in language teaching is paramount.
In the beginning, technology was generally used for drills and vocabulary training. We now have what we call authoring software. Where teachers can create their own exercise and leave it online for students to do the activity when they please, and the teacher will be able to have access to the students’ grades as soon as they finish. In This type of exercise, the computer would be considered a peer in learning, supporting the development of the zone of proximal development. We now have access to ways of approaching the students never seen before, that have the potential to extrapolate the students’ capacity and also diminish our workload.
The development of technology in language learning made what was called CALL ( computer-assisted language learning to become what we now call TELL ( technology-enhanced language learning) which goes in line with what was said earlier. The importance of taking hold of what technology’s role is in language learning, which became much more than merely a tool, but rather an integral part of the environment of any learning, even more so for English as a second language, for the majority of content and app production is primarily done in English.
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