This is my reflection journal about article “Technology and Second Language Teaching” which is wrote by Mark and Carla Meskill.
The first thing which came up in my mind when my lecture in this course asked about what I expected about the course is we will learn a Hi-Tech technology that can be used for teaching in language teaching. I though when we are talking about technology means that we are talking about digital and modern stuffs in this 21st century. After reading this article, I found out that technology is not always about a Hi-Tech things from this century. People already used something that they called technology since long time ago. There are a lot kinds of technology which can be used in language teaching. Each of them have their own strength and weakness. It depends on the usage and the purpose of using each of them in the classroom. These technologies are like a trend, come and go by the time. They are changing and changing to be better and better. Technology is challenging, because dealing with it means you have to deal with it’s fast development. That is why the developing of technology should be followed by the developing of the human resource it self. A good classroom management is not depends on the technology which is used, it is depends on how the activities in that classroom is settled toward that technology. However, technology is not everything in learning and teaching process. Whenever you can use technology, use it, but you do not have to force your self to use in every single class you have.
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