Teaching and Language Learning – Reflective Journal I
Many people today tend to master more than one language. No one can deny that being a bilingual will gain some benefits in life. It will make every bilingual can get more knowledge, economical advantages and even a higher social status. That is why many children today are required to learn more than one language in their schools. “Many have proposed that there are advantages to the early introduction of a second language in school.” (Cenoz and Genesee, 1998 in Garcia, 2009)
Knowing this fact, many teachers nowadays are demanded to teach second language to their students by using another way, which is easier to understand. Technology has been a great answer for them till present. Technology still sounds like a *miracle* for helping many teachers in this era in doing teaching second language (esp. English). Technology helps teachers to visualize their materials for students a lot. Teaching is not a kind of telling students the materials by only saying words to students (anymore). Every teacher nowadays is able to use many kinds of technologies, such as computer, projector, tape recorder, or even marker for delivering the materials. It would grab the students' attention for sure. Teaching second language now is familiar with technology. That is why I call it as T-E-A-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y. Then, let us make our students get smart understanding about language by using teachnology :)
