The Using of Mobile Technology

The Using of Mobile Technology

On the one hand technology and language learning process become partners. The rise of the Web Technology brings in new and ‘exciting’ technologies for use by the language learning process. For having an efficient and effective teaching and learning process, using technology is suggested for teacher.

There are some advantages from using computer. Computer can be

1. Tutors.   They can individualize instruction, provide  learning  material  at  a controlled  pace, and record student  progress
2. Tools.  They aid in reading, allow students to produce and format texts easily, facilitate revision of texts, and check for spelling errors.    They store  in a compact and easily accessible form all sorts of information  that learners  need, from style sheets to encyclopedic data
3. Ways to explore language.  They make the regularities,  the beauties,  and the difficulties of language something that students can examine and interact With in new ways
4.  Media.   They make possible new modes of communication  and "hypertexts,• or  "hypermedia,"  which  allow  the  intermixing  of  tables,  charts,   graphs, pictures, sounds, video, and text
5. Environments/or   communication.   They are a new social realm that permits new forms of meaningful communication and reconfigures  the relationships among students  and teachers.

As the time goes by, technology have developed rapidly Mobile technology is one of the example of the developed technology. Unfortunately, using English was still not part of the curriculum at most teacher training institution. In conclusion, the teachers who use technology, among one place to another, are different. The distributing of technology is different. Teachers who use technology by themselves, they use the technology without training from the government before.

There are some few things must be considered when the teacher use technology, mobile technology especially

1.  Always have backup plan.
2. Accept the fact that everything will take longer than usual at the beginning.
3. Make it very clear to your students that you are going into the computer classroom to learn English.
4. At the beginning, be prepared to continuously monitor their work
5. This might sound surprising, but in almost every group there will be at least one student who either hates computers or has problems using them.
6. Always set a tight time limit on the tasks and stick to it rigorously.
7. Some students take considerably longer to complete certain tasks, and these differences will be even bigger with computer-based tasks.
8. Sharing links with your students during lessons can be made simple by setting up a profile at one of the websites listed in the “Useful links” section
9. Setting up two (or more) separate profiles