WEEK 3:

The importance of combining technological and educational resources in ESL classrooms.

Based on the article: Integrating CALL into the classroom: the role of podcasting in an ESL listening strategies course by Anne O’bryan and Volker Hegelheimer.

Podcasts help to promote an integral learning when it comes to learning languages. Now that the technology has advanced, listening areas and oral areas have been improved with the combination of postcast and language teaching.

In the past, listening areas were reinforced with the use of cassettes, but nowadays access to the internet and technological resources allowed the use of podcasts to become more common due to the diversity and novelty of the materials they offered. However, upon the emergence of this training process, it became evident that most teachers lacked and still lack technological knowledge, which consequently prevented them from renewing their knowledge and implementing new forms of study in the classroom. On the other hand, most of the educational centers in our country still do not have the necessary resources to integrate the use of new technologies to their learning methods, which definitely does not provide good results.

To conclude, in the future we have the task of updating ourselves and creating our own interactive materials, sharing our knowledge and resources with our colleagues, it does not matter if our educational center has the resources or not, we are already part of a generation that has grown hand in hand with technology, so we have no excuses not to integrate new forms of study in our classroom.

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