Practical work Number I

Subject: TICs Teacher: Edith Luna Students: Herrera, Dayana Maribel. Quinteros, Sebastian Mauricio.

a) GLOSSARY
1- IT: is an abbreviation that means Information Technology, it is the study and used of electronic processes and equipment to store and send information of all kinds including words, pictures and numbers. 2- TEFL: is an abbreviation that means teaching English as a foreign language, this abbreviation refers to teach English to students whose first language is not English. TEFL teachers could be native or non-native. 3- Upload: refers to move or send data to a large computer system from a smaller one, such as a server or a client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred.

4- Download: refers to receive data from a remote system to a local one. 5- Resource: is something that can be used to help achieve aim, for example a book, equipment, etc. that provides information for teachers and students. 6- Self- study: is the activity of learning about something without the help of a teacher. 7- Upgrade: the term upgrade refers to make a piece of machinery, computer system, etc. more powerful and efficient. This term refers to replace, for example a hardware, software or firmware with a newer and better version of it, to bring the system up to improve its characteristics. 8- Exposure: it term refers to the relation that a student has with the language that he/she is trying to learn, either generally or with specific language points. 9- Consolidation: is a lesson stage where new material is reviewed, and hopefully learning is reinforced. It normally occurs at the end of the lesson. 10- Chants: is the action of sing or shout the same word/s or phrases many times. 11- Realia: are ordinary objects used in class for teaching purposes. Teachers always used objects from real life in classroom in order to improve students understanding. For example teachers of foreign language use realia to strengthen studentsassosiations between words for everyday objects. 12- Communicative competences: this term in education is used for a persons ability to communicative information and ideas in a foreign language, which consist in three components: grammatical competence; words and rules. Sociolinguistics competence; appropriateness and strategic competence; appropriate use of communication strategies.

Bibliography:

Oxford dictionary Wikipedia www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

b)The origin of internet:

Years ago computers were not consider as an element to teach or to learn, and the great technology was the language laboratory. But years later, people started to see some aspect in common between them, thing like: This technology will revolutionize the teaching of English language. Students will practice what they want, whatever they want, as long as they want without the presence of a teacher. These devices will do all the things as a teacher.

Then, universities started to buy a lot of these machines without know how to use it, but they were sure that it will revolutionize the world of foreign language and it will produce near native speakers. After that, the first computer was created (CALL) that means Computer Assisted Language Learning and it was a boom of the manner to teach and learn foreign language. But it was to some years later that the foreign language community began to realize the focus, devoted to these technological gadget was not enough. Nowadays, computers are part of our life and the manner to tech foreign language, and it is useful for teacher or for student if it is use property, if we use for good reasons.

We have found two videos about the origin of the internet: http://www.youtube.com/Watch?v=SDryuPOjqxw

http://www.youtube.com/Watch?v=ilksS1kt7Hc

c) I think that computer in 1960s maybe were consider just like a machine because
at those time, people trust more in their intelligence than in a machine, maybe because they think that a computer could do bad think. They considered that computer had to be only a help to teach.

Reading the text we noticed that in 1960s computer didnt have succeed because there were not all the software we have nowadays.

In 1980s Underwood applied some notions that will be considered to Communicative Competence, and it should be considered as basic items: 1. Meaningful practice rather than mechanical practice: activities will focus on practice rather than learning practice. 2. Grammar will always be implicit rather than explicit: so, student could develop a response based on comprehension. 3. Feedback activity will not aim at correcting or evaluating response. 4. Feedback activity will tell students incorrect answers: so, students could develop their own definition based on theory. 5. Call activities should be flexible. 6. Call activities should allow students to explore the subject matter: not only one predetermined sort of information. 7. Call software should be attractive and fun.

CALL should put the learner at the centre of the process: In this principles talk about that learners have to be motivated by their feeling, and they have to develop things that they feel good or that attract their attention. But the problem for this point is the carefully necessity of work design and a complete freedom to navigate through complex learning routine help the language learner to feel a sense of progress. So we have to begin putting together meaningful sequences of activities to enable students progression. CALL exist for learners, not teachers: Assessment is part of the complex issue of feedback and authors in this paper often question designers and creators of CALL, and challenge them to explain the difference between activity, an exercise, and a test. Learners need exploration activities, examples, models, find out things, and to have safe environments in which they can make mistakes. With appropriate feedback, learners will get their progression. CALL should engage and motivate learners.

An effective CALL programme should motivate and engage learners by providing rich experiences, enhance by appropriate feedback, students should have a feeling of control to get their own imagination and make a good progress. CALL should help learners learn better. In the last part of the text say that a good CALL programme has to help students providing things to learn better, for instance, an example of our context that denote the manner in which things are in relation. CALL must provide ideas to illustrate the nature of things and understand it easier.

D)
We would like to have a class where we have the possibilities to discuss a work together, we need a class where we will able to think the manner to help our classmate with the help of internet, creating and contributing, reading receiving and responding. In English class we think that it will be more useful because to learn a foreign language is difficult and some time we need something similar to teacher in our house (computers), that help us to correct and corroborate that we have done. Herrera Dayana Maribel Quinteros Sebastian Mauricio