LANGUAGE TEACHING MEDIA

ICT BASED MEDIA

It is submited in Language Teaching Media lesson

Lecturer : Mrs. Catharina Elmayantie, M.Pd

Arranged by :

ELMY

SRN.1101120644

THE STATE ISLAMIC COLLEGE OF PALANGKA RAYA

THE DEPARTEMENT OF EDUCATION

ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT

2013 / 2014

PREFACE

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TABLE OF CONTENT

PREFACE .......................................................................................................... i

TABLE OF CONTENT ..................................................................................... ii

DISCUSSION

A. DEFINITION ...................................................................................... 1

B. KINDS OF ICT BASED MEDIA ........................................................ 1

a. The Web ........................................................................................ 1

b. E-Mail ........................................................................................... 4

c. Corpora and Corcodancing ............................................................. 5

C. Advantages and Disadvantages of ICT Based Media ............................ 7

CONCLUSION .................................................................................................. 8

REFERENCES

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DISCUSSION

A. Definition

ICT Stands for "Information and Communication Technologies"

refers to technologies that provide access to information through

telecommunications1. ICT has provoked an unprecedented excitement

among the language teaching community, inspiring a daunting body of

literature (both electronic and print based) in a relatively short time span.

This proliferation both reflects, and is an attempt to keep pace with, the

rapidly changing ICT landscape.

The information and communication technologies most commonly used

for language pedagogy are the Internet such as the web and electronic mail

(e-mail), and corpora, and these are the three covered here. The use of

synchronous communication in ‘chat rooms’ for language learning is less

established and the type of language it contains arguably too unformed to

be of real value for language learning2.

B. Kinds of ICT Based Media

The ICT most commonly used for language pedagogy are the Internet

such as :

a. The Web

The web is source of content which can be used a window on the

wider world outside your class, and it is one of courses a readily

1 http://www.techterms.com/definition/ict (access on oct 1st ,2013 at 01.00 pm)

2 Mishan, Freda. Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materials. 2005 UK: Intellect Book. Pdf.hal 242

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available collection of authentic material. It also makes your student

to learn easily by web. While sites is a set of services on cyberspace

which serve several useful information, education, culture, social etc3.

1. Using the Web for language learning

In discussing the use of the Web for language learning a

useful starting point is the distinction between exploiting it as a

resource and as a medium (see Conacher and Royall 1998: 38). As

a resource, the Web offers sites which contain material produced

for native speakers and these sites fall roughly into three

categories. The first is material not written for the Internet, which

has been transferred to it either directly or in abridged form.

Poetry, song lyrics, books, film scripts and some journal articles all

fall into this category. The second category is material not written

originally for the Internet but adapted for it. This includes

newspapers and journals, many of which publish adapted online

versions in conjunction with their hard copy versions. The third

category is material written specifically for the Internet, such as the

material found on personal, institutional, commercial and

informative sites e.g. government sites, medical, financial and

tourist information, and so on4.

33 Gavin Dudeney, Nicky Hockly, How to teach English with Technology. 2008., England:Pearson Education Limited England ,hal 27 4 Ibid.hal 242

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2. Culture on the Web

The Web is a repository of a huge range of cultural

products in electronic form, and as such is an invaluable resource

of authentic texts for teachers and learners. Samples of all the

cultural products covered in this book can be found online:

Literature http://www.bibliomania.com/

The broadcast media http://www.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.rte.ie/

http://www.cnn.com/

Newspapers http://www.newsd.com/

Advertising http://www.adslogans.co.uk/

Songs http://www.lyrics.com/

Film (film scripts and clips) http://www.script-o-

rama.com/table.shtml

The Web offers students ‘the opportunity for virtual travelling

without having to pay for a ticket’, as Vogel puts it (2001:135). The

many ‘self-conscious’ culture sites with ‘tourist level’ cultural

information (heritage, folk lore, folk songs, recipes, etc).

3. The Useful Websites for Learners

http://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_PBt.html

http://englishenglish.com/englishtest.htm

http://www.easyenglish.com/

http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/tests.htm

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b. E-mail( Electronic Mail)

E-mail is a means of sending a letter sent through the Internet. By

regular mail senders usually need to pay per delivery (by buying

stamps), but electronic mail is generally the cost is the cost to pay for

the Internet connection. Social media platforms or social media are

the most common terms for (“Hi-Tech”) ICT based communication

platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Those platforms are most

commonly accessed through the Internet, and it is also the oldest and

best-established form of electronic communication. It is today the

largest communication system in the world, with an estimated 605.6

million users worldwide.19 It is the only computer technology to

consist of human-to-human, rather than human-to-machine

communication. It is also the most stable and easy to use5.

1. Using E-Mail for language learning

E-mail allows for communication between students in a context

where the teacher's role is no longer at the center (Patrikis, 1995).

In e-mail communication, foreign language learners can experience

increased control over their own learning, since they can choose the

topic and change the direction of the discussion. The end goal is to

communicate with another person in the foreign language rather

than to produce a mistake-free composition6.It is also the most

stable and easy to use, and requires the least amount of hardware,

software and memory. As such, it is often the first, and sometimes

the only, form of ICT that some people encounter. For all these 5 Mishan, Freda. Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materials. 2005 UK: Intellect Book. Pdf.hal 250 6 http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Meloni-Email.html (access on October 29th ,2013 at 05.00 am)

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reasons, it is hardly surprising that its potential for language

learning was quickly spotted by practitioners. The by now standard

pedagogy for using e-mail for language learning is tandem

learning, whereby two learners with different L1s work together in

order to learn about each other’s language, culture, character and

possibly personal and professional life7.

2. The Websites for learners connecting to other countries by e-mail

http://www.bconnex.net/~kidworld./keypals13.htm

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/penpals.asp

c. Corpora and Concordancing

The corpus - a computer database storing a collection of texts, and

the concordancer – the program which manipulates it, are probably the

ICT systems least exploited for language learning (Rézeau 2001: 147).

Yet a TL corpus provides the largest single resource of authentic

language available to the language learner, and the concordancer

constitutes a flexible, user-directed and user-friendly tool for

exploring it. The reasons why teachers (and learners) are so

circumspect about using corpora and concordancing - and the

arguments in favour of their use – will become apparent below.

Corpora are electronic databases containing texts which have been

either downloaded from other electronic sources (the Internet, CD

ROM etc.), scanned from paper into electronic form, or transcribed

from audiotapes of the spoken language. Corpora are ‘tagged’

morphosyntactically - that is, there is a code which gives the part of

speech of each word - using tagging systems such as the mark-up 7Ibid .hal 250

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language SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language). The

largest corpora

contain millions of words: the Cambridge International Corpus (CIC)

contains over 600 million words at time of writing; the COBUILD

Bank of English, runs to 450 million words; the British National

Corpus (BNC) consists of 100 million words. More modest corpora

can be built by teachers or learners themselves using such programs as

WordSmith Tools25 or MonoConc26.The concordancing software

used to handle these huge quantities of data have the capacity to sort

and present it in a number of ways. For instance, they can generate

statistically sorted word lists (showing, for instance, the 100 most

frequently occurring words in a given text/corpus). The most useful

facility as far as language learning is concerned, is

the capacity to search for key words - a single word (such as cup) or a

word string (e.g. cup of tea) - for which they can generate collocation

lists (the words most commonly used with the key word/string), or

‘key word in context’ (KWIC) conconcordances. A KWIC

concordance

lists a series of (separate and unrelated) lines from a corpus, each of

which displays an occurrence of the key word (or wordstring) within

this one-line context. The occurrence of the key word in the lines is

aligned vertically, thus appearing as a column on screen (or on the

page when printed). This mode of presentation makes the key word

stand out and its

collocations and syntactic restrictions can be examined by looking at

its context - the phrases to the left or the right side of the column.

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C. Advantages and Disadvantages of ICT Based Media

a. Advantages

1. General benefits

Greater efficiency throughout the school

Communication channels are increased through e-mail,

discussion groups and chat rooms.

Regular use of ICT across different curriculum subjects can

have a beneficial motivational influence on students’ learning.

2. The Usage of ICT help improve the quality of education

Motivating to learn

Facilitating the acquisition of basic skill

Enchancing teacher training

Through ICT, the picture can easily be used for teaching and

improve student memory.

Through ICT, the teacher can easily explain complex referrals

for student understanding.

Through ICT, teachers should make an interactive session and

make lessons more interesting, which may increase student

attendance and concentration.8

b. Disadvantages

• Provision may be complicated machine.

• Too expensive.

• Complicated to no experience teaching using ICT tools.

• The Internet connection must be available.

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CONCLUSION

As we know that ICT Stands for "Information and Communication

Technologies". It is also a large umbrella term that covers all the technical

equipment to process and communicate information. ICT consists of language

pedagogy are the Internet such as :

a. The Web

b. E-Mail (Electronic Mail)

c. Corpora and Concordancing

The important one in high technology are advantages and disadvantages of

media what you have been explained especially ICT based media such as :

a. Advantages of ICT based media are General benefits and Facilitating the

acquisition of basic skill, enchancing teacher training etc ; While

b. Disadvantages of ICT based media are too expensive and the internet

connection must be available.

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REFERENCES

Mishan, Freda. Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materials. 2005 UK: Intellect Book. Pdf

Gavin Dudeney, Nicky Hockly, How to teach English with Technology. 2008., England:Pearson Education Limited.Pdf http://www.techterms.com/definition/ict (access on oct 1st ,2013 at 01.00 pm) http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Meloni-Email.html (access on October 29th ,2013 at 05.00 am) http://ict-adv.diasadv.blogspot.com (access on October 27th ,2013 at 03.00 pm)