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Being an E-Teacher: Preparing the ESL Teacher to Teach English with Technology
The use of ICT in language education becomes more prominent as an impact of the rapid changing of educational technology in the field of language teaching. The importance of technology integration in a blended learning environment and how to teach English with technology attracts CALL researchers to do an in-depth investigation in this area. Teachers must be well-trained and familiar with the high-end technologies to integrate the ICT tools and the pedagogical aspects of teaching, so that they could move beyond their comfort zone which based on the traditional teaching perspective, the learning activity is more teacher-centered stressing on the teacher-dominated interaction. There are six domains of being a technologically-literate ESL teacher, they are; (1) teacher technology competency, (2) professional use of ICT tools, (3) professional use of the Internet, (4) web-based technology skills, (5) ESL teacher’s digital literacy, and (6) ESL materials and resources development. The integration of technology in ELT should pay attention to the pedagogical consideration as a foundation of knowledge transferring. At last, technology is simply a tool that helps us work easier and efficient.
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