Grammar page

Hi,

Today I recomend this page to do some grammar exercises with students.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx

I think that if we are going to work with technology, we must know good pages that give us teaching support.

Can computers be a teacher substitute?

It is meaningful to know that computers are a very good tool and a quite effective teacher's companion at the moment of teaching, For that reason I think that our technological training must be everyday better to reach an excellent connection between what we do in the classroom and the new technologies, but only they as helpers and not as substitutes, since I do believe their function as assistant do not go beyond that. In our role as teachers who are flesh and blood, we must give students a educational escort and personal monitoring which is an important part of students' learning and it can not be gave by a machine, no matters how technological it is, only a human being can convey those and another important feelings in the precise moment of learning and teaching. That's why I disagree with the idea of Computers may substitute teachers in the future.

My comment of CALL implementation and its Implications on Teacher Training

After reading the article “Issues in CALL Implementation and its Implications on Teacher Training” by Nuraihan Mat Daud, it is important to note that the use of technology in Second Language Teaching has several advantages, but these are only reached if teachers are well trained, not only as good teachers in their teaching knowledge, methodologies and all that being a teacher means, but also as good suppliers of technological capacity to motivate students to learn by using new and varied ways, since, in this way students can improve their skills and teachers can be successful in their job and in some way reaching any educational goal that they intend to.

WELCOME!

I hope that on this page you find good information to solve some of your doubts about the use of technology in Second Language teaching, specially English(ESL).
I would like to provide you with some clues to get on with technology at the moment of teaching, because as a student of a Teaching program I can say that a shared experience from one of us can make a difference. We can improve methodologies and make our teaching and our students' learning more productive and sucessful.
I consider important to say, teaching needs people with a bit of get-up-and-go.