Midterm Test of LTT
This week, Language Teaching and
Technology class 401-402 will have midterm test. The students have to answer
some question and post it on their own blog. The question that is posted is understandable,
as follows:
1.
Why do language teachers need to
apply products of technology (ICT) in their classrooms?
Answer:
Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is fundamental in everyone’s life in our modern technological society. Teacher must successfully integrate ICT into both the English curriculum and English pedagogical practice. The language teachers must apply ICT in their learning process.
Answer:
Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is fundamental in everyone’s life in our modern technological society. Teacher must successfully integrate ICT into both the English curriculum and English pedagogical practice. The language teachers must apply ICT in their learning process.
ICT
is a valuable tool to enhance teaching and learning. For teachers ICT is a
professional resource, a mode of classroom delivery, and a source of valid and
valuable text types. For students, ICT provides opportunities to communicate
more effectively and to develop literacy skills including skills in critical
literacy. It is a valuable tool for researching, composing and responding, and
viewing and representing in English. However, if all students are to have the
opportunity to develop ICT skills and achieve English syllabus outcomes, issues
of equity and access to technology must be addressed. (http://www.englishteacher.com.au/AboutUs/OfficialStatements/ICTsinEnglish.aspx)
2.
Mention some products of technology
that support English language teaching.
Answer:
Some products of technology that support English language teaching are
Answer:
Some products of technology that support English language teaching are
1. Laptop
It is a small computer that can work with a battery and be
easily carried.
2. Speakers
It is the part of computer that the sounds comes out of.
3.Electronic dictionary
It is a portable electronic dictionary which can be used
everywhere and anywhere.
Source : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/CASIO_electronic_dictionary_EV-SP3900.jpg
4.PDA
It is the abbreviation for ‘personal digital assistant’. It
is a very small computer that is used for storing personal information and
creating documents, and that may include other functions.
5.IPod
It is a small piece of equipment
that can store information taken from the Internet and that you carry with you.
Source : http://i.stack.imgur.com/iJBCF.jpg
6.Smartphone
It is a mobile phone or cell phone
that also has some of the functions of a computer
g.
7.Tablets PC
It is a small computer that is easy to carry, with a large
touch screen and sometimes without a physical keyboard.
3. Mention some computer hardware used
for teaching and learning activities and explain one by one.
Answer:
Some computer hardware used for teaching and learning activities of technology that support teaching and learning activities are
A. Computer
Answer:
Some computer hardware used for teaching and learning activities of technology that support teaching and learning activities are
A
computer generally means a programmable machine. The two principal
characteristics of a computer are: it responds to a specific set of
instructions in a well-defined manner and it can execute a prerecorded list of
instructions (a program). (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/computer.html)
B. LCD
Projector
An
LCD projector is a type of video projector for displaying video, images or
computer data on a screen or other flat surface. It is a modern equivalent of
the slide projector or overhead projector. To display images, LCD
(liquid-crystal display) projectors typically send light from a metal-halide
lamp through a prism or series of dichroic filters that separates light to
three polysilicon panels – one each for the red, green and blue components of
the video signal.
c C. Speaker
It
is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an
electrical audio signal input. In other words, speakers convert electrical
signals into audible signals.
D.Headset
A
headset combines a headphone with a microphone. Headsets are made with either a
single- earpiece (mono) or a double-earpiece (mono to both ears or stereo).
E. Web-camera
It
is a camera which records moving pictures and sound and allows these to be
broadcast on the internet as they happen
4. What
computer software do you need for teaching English in the classroom?
Answer:
The rise of the Web Technology brings in
new and ‘exciting’ technologies for use by the language learning process. Here,
software is used in language learning. Sofware is all of the programs in
computer system. It only can be seen but
we cannot touch it directly. In language learning process, there are some
software that can be used to help students understand and acquire the material.
There are some examples of software
A.Prezi
Prezi is a presentation sofware and storytelling tool for presenting ideas
on a virtual canvas. We should
download it from https://prezi.com/ to use this software. We will get trial
version for first thirty days. We must pay it for the next days
B.Ulead Video studio
It is a sofware for editing movie and audio. It is a software that is produced by Corel. We
must download it from http://www.videostudiopro.com/en/
C. Audacity
It is a an easy-to use audio editor and recorder. We can download it from
It is a sofware for
editing music
E. GoAnimate
GoAnimate (sometimes also called
Go!Animate) is an American cloud-based platform for creating and distributing animated
videos. This software allow everyone to make videos quickly and easily, without
having to draw or download anything (Click, Drag, Action!). It allows users to
develop both narrative videos, in which characters speak with lip-sync and move
around, and video presentations, in which a voiceover narrator speaks over
images and props, which may also move around.
5. What
do you know about CALL and MALL
- CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) is a study of application of the computer in language teaching and learning process. According to Chapelle (2001: 3) Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) refers to the area technology and second language teaching and learning despite the fact that revisions for the term are suggested regularly. There are three phases of CALL, Behavioristic CALL , Communicative CALL , and Integrative call.(http://www.rong-chang.com/call.htm)
- MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) is a study of application of mobile technology in language teaching and learning process. Mobile assisted language learning (MALL) is a subarea of the growing field of mobile learning (mLearning) research which increasingly attracts the attention of scholars.
