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- Title: Promoting Language Acquisitions: Technology and English Language Learners (Technology in the Classroom)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 194 KB
Description
As a former English as a second language (ESL) teacher, I know firsthand how important it is for teachers to find technology that promotes language development for English language learners. While teaching ESL in an inner-city school in the Dallas area during the early 1990s, I taught students from such countries as Korea, Japan, Mexico, Bosnia, Vietnam, and Honduras. With such cultural and language diversity in my elementary classroom, I needed software that met the students' diverse needs, and training on how to use such technology. Although I was a recently certified ESL teacher, I had no training on how to use technology to enhance learning. As a result, technology and computers were scary things for me. Not only was finding software that was appropriate for my ESL students a problem, I did not know how to use what I found to improve and enhance language instruction. Today, a plethora of Web sites and software packages are designed specifically for English language learners, and not only are most teacher candidates well-versed in how to use technology, they are likely familiar with numerous software programs that are appropriate to use with children. Although teacher candidates may be well-trained in how to use technology, they are often unfamiliar with software and techniques for working with English language learners who may be enrolled in their regular education classroom. With the population of English language learners increasing, teachers who may not necessarily be trained in ESL may have ESL students in their classroom; for that reason, it is imperative that all teachers be familiar with strategies for working with English language learners. For that reason, I interviewed an ESL Coordinator and a 1st-grade ESL/bilingual teacher to gain their perspectives on computer software that is used in the classroom to meet the needs of English language learners.
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