Vol. 4 Issue 48 – Eric Roth's Grammar Teaching Tip: Do Our Students Need to Swim in English or Pass Grammar Tests?

Do our students need to swim in English? Or do they need to focus on avoiding minor grammar mistakes? Should we encourage our students to speak as much English as possible? Or should we paralyze our students with exaggerated fears?

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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 47

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#47 | November 19, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Video: How to Teach Listening Skills in the ESL Classroom Article: ‘Shopping Mysterious Items in an Unfamiliar Language’ by Rolf…

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Vol. 4 Issue 47 – Research Paper: 'The Use of Technology in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Secondary Schools of Iran' by Dr. Fatemeh Alipanahi

Today the researchers and philosophers are emphasizing the need for all learners to master what they call “21st century skills”. These skills are central to another goal for learners in the technology-filled lives they may face: media, technological, and information literacy and being able to choose, interact with, and produce technology-based media. So, this study aims to tell us how well to use computers or in other words technology in second and foreign language instruction; because the power of the machine lies in how well it gets used and integrated into the daily classroom activities. And also tells us about the most useful technological tools for teaching language skills in EFL classes. I tried to find out the answers to these research questions by the use of technology-based teaching methods for about one month in a high school and also I had an interview with an English teacher to get her opinions, too. It should be mentioned that in this study some factors such as gender, background knowledge, etc were not taken into account. Besides these the results of the study revealed that EFL teachers who use technology mostly in teaching English are more successful than those who use the traditional methods which aren't technology-based ones. So in order to succeed teachers should use many types of computer technologies in schools.

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