TASK 2 - ICT in Language Learning

SUMMARY 

A report from Japan showed that ICT can improve students’ motivation in learning, especially in terms of “Knowledge-Comprehension”, “Practical skill” and “Presentation skill”. Although ICT can give some advantages for students in education, ICT also can give some disadvantages in education . The advantages of ICT in education are: by seeing the pictures, students can remember the material longer, for the teacher, they could measure how far students understand the material, and they could make learning more interesting for students and could improve students attendance and concentration. On the other side, the disadvantages of ICT in education are : many teachers that haven’t known what ICT is, and buying of ICT equipment is too expensive.

Nowadays, technology will develop rapidly and newer, even it is cheaper and stronger will appear to make the whole of the world more sophisticated. Many efforts that people do to make the education more sophisticated, like TV and Radio or mobile phone are used in some school to make learning more interesting and sophisticated. New internet technology will exist to provide connectivity to remoter areas, and software that students could get freely from internet to support education.

In some school, the teachers have shown to their students some application or software that they can use in online teaching. It can make their students to be more creative and make learning more interesting. Some software that the teachers can use are wallwisher and prezi. Wallwisher looks like facebook, it can be used for sharing some URL, link web, pictures, audio, video or making note. Teachers can ask their students to post their assignment on wallwisher, and the teachers can assess their assignment or give feedback. Prezi, it can be used for presentation. It looks like power point, but Prezi shows the presentation more interesting. In power point, the form of presentation is some slides, but in Prezi, the form of presentation is like a map. The teachers can zoom out or zoom in.

Planning Commission said that ICT tools must be used for significantly improving the educational services and for streamlining the admission process. ICT must be used to improve learning service. ICT can be used to increase experience in learning and can improve the quality of research and collaboration by providing knowledge and information widely because education is a key for growth and prosperity of a country.

Because of its interactive and dynamic nature, ICT has the potential to meet the needs of individual students by providing opportunities to direct their learning and to pursue information, or complete tasks, in ways which meet their own interests and needs. (Computer based technologies in English KLA, 1997, p6). If the teacher use ICT in learning, it could make students more creative because they can use multimedia to make the material in learning more interesting. Using ICT in English could improve students skill in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students could get all of the material that they need from internet in some form like picture, animation, audio or video.