PLUS AND MINUS OF INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY

Plus and minus of integrating technology in teaching and  learning  English process

                Technology is utilized for the upliftment of modern styles; it satisfied both visual and auditory senses of the students.

The Advantages of using technology in teaching and  learning  English process

1. Especially For ESL students, technology can facilitate students to search information about English
2.  Technology provide so many options as making teaching interesting and also making teaching more productive in terms of improvements. Technology is one of the most significant drivers of both social and linguistic change. Graddol: (1997:1
3. With the rapid development of science and technology , the emerging and developing of multimedia technology and its application to teaching,featuring audio, visual, animation, effects comes into full play the new era. It’s proved that multimedia technology plays a positive role in promoting activities and initiatives of student and teaching effect in English class.
4.  Using media technology in teaching process able to cultivate student’s interest in study,to promote student’s communication capacity,to widen student’s knowledge to gain an insightful understanding to western culture, to improve teaching effect, to improve interaction between students and teacher,etc.

The disadvantages of using technology in teaching and learning English process

1.  Using media technology makes student lazy to thinking.
2.  Using media technology make major means replaced by the assisting one, its means that there is no confidently  of a teacher.
3.  Loss of speaking communication because too often using media technology .
4. The restriction of student’s thinking potential because of using media technology
5.  Abstract thinking will be change by imaginable thinking

       Reference :

“Use of technology in English language teaching and learning:” An Analysis. Solanki D. Shyamlee.