CHAPTER 2 "Blended Teaching and Learning and Technology Enhance Language Learning"

 

Blended Teaching and Learning and Technology Enhance Language Learning

Variations in learning at this time are indeed very frequent and often applied due to the conditions after the pandemic and with the argument of fully utilizing technology and developing skills and creativity. ICT in ELT is the activities of using technologies, such as computer, internet and other telecommunications media (radio, TV, smartphones) to communicate, create and disseminate store and manage information in English language teaching and learning. There are various types of delivering learning, namely:

• CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)
• MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning)
• RALL (Robot Assisted Language Learning)
• TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning)
• Blended Learning (Combination of face to face and online learning)
• Flipped Learning (Student autonomous online learning before face to face classroom meeting)
• LMS (Learning Management System, online classroom learning platforms)
• SAMR (Subtitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition)

Various kinds of learning management systems                                                                

• GoogleClassroom
• Moodle
• School
• Edmodo
• Canvas Instructor
• Quipper

ICT Activities in ELT

• Teaching Presentation / Explaining Lesson
• ResourcingTeaching Materials
• Assignment and Project
• Classroom Activities / Practice
• Assessment

ICT Integration in ELT

Advantages:

• ICT provides more learning materials
• ICT increases student critical and creative thinking and also accommodates collaborative learning
• ICT promotes autonomous learning 
• ICT improves students' and teachers' digital literacy skills
• ICT increases students' and teachers' positive attitudes to technology application
• ICT enhances students' motivation in learning
• ICT gives easiness and flexibility for long-distance learning
• ICT creates eco-friendly teaching and learning environment

Disadvantages: 

• Low teachers' knowledge and attitude toward ICT in ELT 
• Unmotivated students in autonomous learning
• Insufficient policy and institutional
• Incomplete facility and technology support of ICT
• Health issues 
• High cost and maintenance