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“USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE”

Technology is an essential tool that we often do not use correctly. Technology is defined as a science or knowledge for solving problems in a lot of fields of everyday life, from entertainment to work, but a very important field to implement technology in the life of a human is in Education.

Virtual lesson plans, grading software and online assessments can help teachers save a lot time.  What is more, having virtual learning environments in schools enhances collaboration and knowledge sharing between teachers.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

1.  ANTECEDENTS: 

History of technological development to meet the learning needs of a foreign language.

Historically, the first language and computer connection was established when the second was born.This connection becomes the beginning of a technological development to meet new needs.  Automatic translators are started to be created to the detriment of the professional translator of dictionaries and parallel documents.

Technology and Languages:

In the 1940s, many pedagogues argued that languages were like a network of syntactic structures that had to be learned with automatisms. For this reason, the computer could only bring benefits, since it was the tool per excellence to include automations. 

Language learning is one of the fields in which sooner or later we would apply a computer tool. In this way, the teacher uses the computer as a support for his teaching.

JUSTIFICATION:

This research will also help to raise awareness that the use of technology, in the teaching learning of English Language is more productive. Likewise, the research work that was carried out, will publicize the importance of the use of technology and the impact it has to help in the teaching/learning process of the English language in the students of Middle School Education by Cooperative I.N. E.B.A.C Parracaná Cantel, Quetzaltenango.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

1. Technology

Application of knowledge to the practical aims of human life or changing and manipulating the human environment. Technology includes the use of materials, tools, techniques, and sources of power to make life easier or more pleasant and work more productive. Whereas science is concerned with how and why things happen, technology focuses on making things happen.”

Different Types of Technology

1. Fixed technology.

     Fixed technology can't be reused. It's called this way because it never changes. Oil refineries and fuels are some examples of fixed technology.

2. Flexible technology.

     We are daily surrounded by flexible technology. It's called "flexible" because from technical knowledge other products can be made. Some examples are food and pharmaceutical industries.

3. Soft technology.

     Soft technology gathers commercialization, planification and administration knowledge, without knowing any technical information. Unlike flexible technology, soft technology can't be seen or touched. Computers and smartphones are examples of soft technology.

4. Tough technology.

     Tough technology is the combination of the technical knowledge people use to create gadgets like machines, materials or tangible products, that is, things that can be touched or seen.

5. Equipment technology.

     This is one of the types of technology that can be applied into industry, because it includes all the products that are made thanks to mass production, such as plastic and textile processes.

6. Operation technology.

     Operation technology is achieved as a result of observation during a very long time, where people analyze and evaluate what they observed, for using it in other types of technology, like equipment or tough technology.

The following things have been identified by educational researchers and teachers alike as the most powerful uses of technology for learning.

1. Critical Thinking
2. Mobile Learning
3. Deeper Learning
4. Continuous Feedback
5. Unlimited and Immediate Learning
6. Creation and Contribution
7. Social Connectedness
8. Global Awareness
9. Understanding Learning

English is the language of the internet

The most common language on the internet is in English, so learning the language is pretty necessary for anyone making their living online. Many online careers rely upon at least some knowledge of English, including movers and shakers in social media, journalists, entertainers, website designer and developers, and much, much more.

Language

Language, a system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release.

Systems Teaching English

In the classroom: Although most modern methodologies and approaches focus on communication and make little reference to systems, many course books still have a structure based on the systems and skills mentioned above. Discourse itself is normally not identified separately, but included in skills areas.

Benefits of Educational Technology in Learning English

Technology in the classroom within educational centers is the present of education. The use of new technology in language learning has become the perfect complement in reaching proficiency and fluency, and English courses accompanied by technological support are the most effective and attractive for students who want to be successful in their learning.

1. The Best Complementary Tool for Teachers In The Classroom.

2. Technology Is Motivating and Stimulating For Students.

3. Ease in Managing and Monitoring Student Progress.

4. Create A Unique Experience as Much for the Teacher as the Students.

5. Promote Interactivity and Collaboration within Learning.

METHOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK

General Objective:

Determinate the importance of the use of technology, when teaching English as a Second Language to students from Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Grade

Specific Objectives:

1.      Create tools to determine the influence of technology on the English Language teaching.

2.      Analyze the importance that technology provides in English Language Teaching.

3.      Investigate new technological resources for teaching English. 

Hypothesis:

1.      Technology is a tool that facilitates processes in all axes of knowledge, allows to plan, direct, execute and control in an organized way.

Sampling:

Universe: Middle School,  Cooperativa Parracana Cantel, Municipio de Quetzaltenango, Departamento de Quetzaltenango.

Study area: Rural area

OPERATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK

We have the answers of the Survey we passed to the students of Paraje De Parracaná, Cantel, Municipio de Quetzaltenango.

GENERAL GRAPH STUDENTS

Of 120 students surveyed, 32% said they would not like to use the technology in the process of teaching and learning English, and 68% would like the technology to be implemented in the teaching and learning process of a new language (English).

GENERAL GRAFIC

Does the use of technology helps the teaching of English language? 

In conclusion the teachers responded our question 74 % said  that is important use the technology in the teaching-  learning process.  And 26 % responded that don’t use the technology to helps the teaching of English language. 

CONCLUSIONS

  -The use of technology in the teaching-learning process of the English language is important to achieve that the student develops critical thinking and gets access to learning materials.

   -We also need to unhook “Traditional Pedagogy” of the English language teaching and connecting it with the current didactics that includes technology.

RECOMMENDATIONS

  - It is essential that the students have access to technological tools for the learning of a second language (English), so in this way the student can develop critical thinking.

    - It is fundamental the use of the technology because we have different tools access that help us in the teaching English process.

MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH PROFESSORS

2018-2020

The technology  facitite of learning or serve as the actual educational structure allowing learning to occur, benefiting both traditional education institutions and online educational models in fundamental ways.

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