Reading and Response Questions

http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/marcos01.html
Of the various ways that Kathleen Marcos describes how language teachers can use the Internet which do you think would be the most useful for you?

http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/developmental.html
In this article by Mark Warschauer he discusses how both language and technology are “tools for individual and societal development”. He uses a ESOL context to explain his viewpoint. Do you think it is equally as essential for general teachers to be equipped with a second language and knowledge of technology? Why or why not?

http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/0212morrison.html
Morrison, S. (2002) Interactive language learning on the web.

This article by Sally Morrison contains many links for seeing some of the many possibilities for using technology in the language classroom. Visit several of them and think about which ones would be most useful for your students. Are there any that you feel you would like to learn how to set up?

http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num1/gonzalez/default.html
Gonzalea-Lloret, M. (2003). Designing task-based CALL to promote interaction:en busca de esmeraldas Language Learning & Technology 7, 1, 36-104 [available online]
This article explains language teaching methodological principles and then how a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activity is supported by these principles. Of the sites you visited in the previous article, did you find that the activities are supported by the 10 methodological principles (Doughty, 2000) mentioned in the article?