The Benefits of Using Computers for English Teachers
The
Benefits of Using Computers for English Teachers
Computers are being used in
classrooms for instruction in composition, literature, decoding, reading comprehension,
spelling, vocabulary, grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization,
brainstorming, planning, reasoning, outlining, reference use, study skills,
rhetoric, handwriting, drama, and virtually every other area of language arts.
There are also programs specifically designed for preschool, primary, upper
elementary, middle school, high school, and college students, as well as
students in adult, English has a second language, foreign language, bilingual,
and special needs classes.
Below are some benefits of Computer
for English Teacher:
1. Computers
as Tutors. For English teacher computers be can individualize instruction,
provide learning material at controlled pace, and record student progress.
2. Computers
as Tools. In this section for English teacher computers aid in reading, allow
students to produce and format texts easily, facilitate revision of texts, and
check for spelling errors. They store in a compact and easily accessible form
all sorts of information that learners need, from style sheets to encyclopedic
data.
3. Computer
as Ways to explore language. Teacher and student make the regularities, the
beauties, and the difficulties of language something that students can examine
and interact within new ways.
4. Computers
as Media. In this section computers make possible new modes of communication
and "hypertexts," or "hypermedia," which allow the
intermixing of tables, charts, graphs, pictures, sounds, video, and text. We can
use it for making media presentation to increase the student interest and student
outcomes.
5.
Computers as Environments for
communication. They are a new social realm that permits new forms of meaningful
communication and reconfigures the relationships among students and teachers.
As a teacher, actually English teacher we
must be aware toward developing of technology especially computers. It is not
possible to present a survey of computer use within each of these roles that is
both comprehensive and brief. Instead, this report presents some representative
uses as a way of suggesting possible directions. Because computer use is still
rapidly evolving, the examples represent categories of applications, not
necessarily formal research studies on classroom effectiveness. There should be
more such studies, for the few that exist highlight the diversity of the
impact, positive and negative, that computers may have.
References:
·
ROLES FOR
COMPUTERS INTEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS Bertram C. Bruce University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign December 1990
·
INVESTIGATING TEACHERS’ USE OF COMPUTERS IN TEACHING
ENGLISH: A CASE STUDY at Faculty of
Social Sciences and Humanities
Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia
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