Technology and Second

Language Teaching

Dwi Septyanto Haryono
2201407186
Example of tech and teaching

Intermediate students of Polish in California
plan a bilingual World Wide Web, includes
textual information about their two
universities as well as student-produced
video

Students in an advanced business French
class in Ohio watch French television news
via satellite TV.


A BRIEF HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

As we know technology will blossom every year and
every type in language teaching has technologies to
support it. Started from the classical method,
Grammar Translation Method, that uses the most
ubiquitous technology, blackboard. Later, it supported
by the overhead projector. In audio lingual method,
the technology that used is audio-tape. But in the late
1970s, audiolingual method fell into disrepute
because of the poor result and expensive facilities. In
the 1980s and 1990s there is communicative
language teaching ( CLT ) that having two distinct
perspective, cognitive approaches and sociocognitive
approaches.

COGNITIVE APPROACHES

Cognitive approaches are based on the
view that learning a language is an unique
psycholinguistic process. From this
perspective, language learners construct a
mental model of a language system,
based not on habit formation but rather
on innate cognitive knowledge in
interaction with comprehensible,
meaningful language.


SOCIOCOGNITIVE APPROACHES

In socio-cognitive perspectives, language is
viewed as a vehicle of conveying meaning,
and knowledge is transmitted through
communication involving two parts, for
example, speakers and listeners, and writers
and readers, but is constructed through
negotiation. As a consequence,
communication is not only a matter of
following conventions but also of negotiating
through and about the conventions
themselves. It is a convention-creating as
well as convention-following activity.

ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES

Technology also has advantages and disadvantages. The
advantages, technology can be used to help prepare
students for the kinds of international cross-cultural
communication which are increasingly required for success
in academic, vocational, or personal life.
Disadvantages of technologies are focused in three
aspects: investment of money, investment of time,
uncertainly of results. For poor school and students, they
can not use the technology, because we know technology is
still expensive and they can not buy it. Technology also
need much time to understand in the usefulness. Teachers
need trainers to train them, because there are a lot of
software and they dont know the function and the
methods.