I found the online articles very interesting. Warschauer & Meskill seemed to be very skeptical about using technology in class. They have mentioned that no one did a research on "whether the book or the library is beneficial for language leraning". I believe we don't need a research on that just because it's obvious. "Computer is a machine, not a method". I agree that computer is a machine, but it can be used as a method! Technology should be used, but within reasonable limits, and together with books.
I enjoyed reading Chapelle, it was very interesting and informative. I didn't know much about voice chats, text chats, etc. before. It was exciting to know that chat made students feel more prepared and more willing to communicate. This article was attention-grabbing for me.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I agree with your idea that technology can be a method. When we use it in the same way as Comton (in the chapter of Chapelle) used text-chat in her research, this device is a method to help them make a rough draft of oral speech. Unless we forget the goal of the instruction, I think there is no problem for regarding technology as a method.
Hmm ... I think of technology more as media, in the same way that a book is media. I think of methods in a more approach-like way (think back to our MODL 4/570 last year).
Post a Comment