I have selected 20 articles related to the use of technology in the ESL classroom. These are articles that may be of interest to ESL teachers who are planning to use technology as an instructional tool. Several of the articles are linked to other ESL resources that I found to be very interesting especially for getting ideas that are useful for lesson planning. I hope you will find these helpful.
by Michael Morgan
The ESL teacher needs to decide how to or how not to use technology in the classroom. Three methods are offered to help teachers meet their English language teaching objectives.
2. Integrating Technology into the ESL/EFL Classroom
by Nellie Muller
A lesson plan for teaching progressive tense using MS Excel as a learning object. Author provides step by step procedures to meet the learning objectives.
3. Computer Use in the Classroom
by Kenneth Beare
Using computers as a learning tool not just as another piece of equipment. Computers can be used to provide listening exercises, student interaction, and to encourage student self-pacing. Includes links to technology assistance, teaching resources and related articles.
4. Teaching ESL Reading Using Computers
by Saad Alkahtani
This article focuses on how computers can be used to facilitate reading with applications for language teaching and learning. The article features three software programs that help ESL intermediate teachers to have their students practice reading using computers. The three software programs are: Mac Reader, Storyboard, and Reading Galaxy.
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/AlKahtani-ComputerReading/
5. Please Check Your Baggage: Considering Cultural Biases and Critical Issues in the Adult ESL Classroom When Using Computer Technology (2004)
Although this article is written for the use of technology in adult ESL classes, the suggestions and recommendations are very applicable to any secondary level ESL class in which the use of technology is being considered. This article gives sound suggestions for what teachers need to do to prepare for an ESL class using technology such as the need to consider age, gender, individual learning styles, culturally specific learning styles, the purpose for using technology in the classroom. Rosenblatt provide four criteria for the selection of products and programs and describes programs she has found to be effective in her class.
6. New Technologies, New Literacies: Focus Discipline Research and ESL Learning Communities
by Loretta F. Kasper
Research article that describes how content based instruction which engages high intermediate ESL students in sustained content study within collaborative learning communities and with the use information technology resources can improve linguistic, academic, socioaffective, and metacognitive skills through an activity called focus discipline research.
7. Analysis of Technology Innovation in Education
by Eun-Jin KimHan
An article that discusses the effects of using technology in the classroom, particularly video streaming, the real-time audio and video delivery. One benefit of using streaming video in the ESL classrooms is that it helps the visual learners to understand contents more easily and the use of educational technologies can be an effective method to meet the educational needs of limited English proficient students in assisting them to effectively communicate with others as they develop primary target language skills.
8. Literature Review: Using Computer Mediated Communication in Second anguage Classrooms
by Maiko Hata
This article discusses findings on the effects of internet communication forums on ELL. Although computers are a great support for language learning they just another way to help students but they are not the answer all the problems in second language learning. The author discusses the relationship between the use computer mediated communication and the sociocultural theory and the use of discussion boards and chat rooms to assist in second language acquisition through collaborative work and negation of meaning.
9. Wired@School: 20 Teaching Units at Your Fingertips!
by Hazel Jobe,
A Franklin Fellow presents 20 on-line teaching units full of lessons and activities. This site also contains other technology related articles and you have to check the sidebar for related articles such as the 7 Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology.
10. E-mail and Word Processing in the ESL Classroom: How the Medium Affects the Message from Language Learning and Technology Vol. 5, No. 1,January 2001, pp. 135-165
by Sigrun Lucas and Donald Weasenforth
Does electronic mail benefit students in terms of academic writing development? This article investigates whether student-produced writing in e-mail and word processing is similar or different with respect to the occurrence of coherence features, text length, and contextualizing information.
11. Service Learning and Technology in TESOL
by Mark Warschauer and JaniceCook
Service learning has been described as 'a form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning and development' (Jacoby, 1996, p. 5).
Technology is found to be a powerful tool to accompany the use of service learning in the ESL classroom, for several reasons: it represents an important service that ESL students can offer to the community: even a newly-arrived immigrant with limited English skills can make an important contribution to others by sharing knowledge of technology; new technologies can help facilitate communication between students and community groups, thus making service learning more interactive; information technology, can be a very helpful media to facilitate ESL students sharing of ideas for mutual reflection about their service learning experiences.
12. ESL Technologies : The Universal Language
by John K. Waters
Ell students often don’t have access to computers at home. But they have cell phones and BlackBerries and PDAs. As a global trend, these kinds of devices are becoming more accessible as teaching devises which is going to change the learning as we knew it before the technology age. The article focuses on award winning ESL teacher Judy Haynes in which he captures her views on technology in the ESL classroom.
www.thejournal.com/articles/19922_6
13. PowerPoint in ESL Cassrooms
by Futonge Kisito
A short but very information piece by an ESL teacher who uses powerpoint to reinforce language skills development and to create quizzes, games, and other activities. He shares his insights on the uses of technology, specifically powerpoint. Check out the sight for free downloadable pp presentations.
14. Confronting Technology in ESL: So What's a Poor ESLTeacher to Do?(1999)
by Donna Mydlarski
Read what the author has to say about confronting the issue of technology and take a look at the sites she has included in her article. Check out the sites with free downloadable freeware and shareware.
15. Technology Motivates Students to Learn in New Ways
16. How Well Are ESL Teachers Being Prepared to IntegrateTechnology in Their Classrooms?
By Nancy Velazquez-Torres, Metropolitan
28 pre-service teachers and 9 in-service participants from
http://tesl-ej.org/ej36/a1.html
17. Harnessing Technology in the Classroom
by Ellen Ficklen and Carol Muscara
t's time for technology and we, as teachers need to get with the times. Includes ways to get stated using technology with your students and tips from the trenches (Or How Not To Reinvent the Wheel)
18. Curriculum Access for Students with Low-Incidence Disabilities: The Promise of UDL Universal Design
Learning -Center for Applied Special Technology(CAST)
How might that curriculum be accessed by students with disabilities? How can participation be accomplished and effective progress be ensured? Although specialized curricula and instructional practices must continue to be employed to address disability-specific needs, the unique needs of students with disabilities must be understood in a broader context of the general curriculum to include providing with the opportunity to achieve a high quality of life.
19. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines - Version 1.0 Center forApplied Special Technology (CAST)
How does UDL address and redress curricular disabilities? Usually, adaptation is the process used for making existing curricula more accessible to students with learning disabilities, especially in the instructional materials and the methodology. Often, teachers are forced to make gallant attempts to modify and adapt curricular elements that were not designed to meet the learning needs of diverse students. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) refers to a process by which a curriculum (i.e., goals, methods, materials, and assessments) is intentionally and systematically designed from the beginning to address individual differences. With curricula that are universally designed, much of the difficulties of subsequent adaptation can be reduced or eliminated – and a better learning environment for all students can be implemented.
20. Multimedia in the EFL/ESL Classroom
This article may help to point the language teacher in the right direction on where to start looking for answers to the question: What multimedia is appropriate and when to use it to enhance language teaching/learning?
Hi:
ReplyDeleteExcellent choices, great variety and very well written.
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