Facts
about ICT
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Implications
in the language classroom
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Ubiquitous presence of internet
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This makes it easier to incorporate its use
in the teaching/learning process.
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More miniaturized and portable communication
devices
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More personalized communication devices that
can be used in the classroom because they are at hand.
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Interaction among communities has produced
new genres
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Teachers must develop awareness of these new
linguistic challenges and encompass their incorporation for their own needs
and their students’.
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ICT requires new pedagogic models to prepare
future citizens for collaborative and life-long learning
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Learners must be trained to become more
independent and autonomous to convert gained information into knowledge and
skills.
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The new media will lead to a major change in
the culture of learning
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A change in the conception of the
teaching/learning processes and the adoption of ICT as an enhancer to this
culture of learning.
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The new media offers among other things: a
wider range of teaching contents, a self-directed learning, teacher-student
planning of lessons, freer spaces from the constraints of traditional
classrooms, facilitation of communication, etc.
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Consequentially, new roles and skills are
demanded from teachers: facilitator and guide, orchestrator, integrator,
designer, researcher, evaluator, learners, collaborator. Skills:
organizational, technical and conceptual. Learners become more active participants.
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Multimedia programmes offer sound and vision,
native speakers interactions, encyclopedias and dictionaries for instant
reference, actual reports and news, etc.
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Teachers must improve their didactic
competencies linked to media and provide less instruction and information.
Learners will be encouraged and monitored by the teacher to work in groups.
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ICT will bring the pluralisation of learning
environments beyond the school context
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Teachers are to take into consideration the
complexity and individuality of learning and make full use of the
possibilities to extend learning beyond the classroom.
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There have aroused a range of new skills,
competencies and attitudes which help function in the new world
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Teachers need to be given the opportunity to
update in the knowledge, use and adoption of these new skills so they can
pass on their learners.
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Multimedia material changes constantly to
meet their main purpose of informing, communicating, transforming, etc.
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Teachers can be sure that the implementation
of multimedia use in the classroom will provide the learners with authentic
and updated material
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Based on information taken from: “The Impact of Information and Communications
Technologies on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Role of Teachers of
Foreign Languages”
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