Revue Maghrébine des Langues
Volume 9, Numéro 1, Pages 161-173
2014-12-31

The Importance Of Ict In Efl

Authors : Ali Rabah Nouria .

Abstract

Living in an information-based world, we can no longer separate teaching from Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). Even if some teachers tend to be reluctant in their ignorance of the fact, students seem so ardent and more inclined to use them whenever granted an opportunity.In fact, even when banned from schools, we still hear the bird-singing phones. Even though experts keep warning us about media-addiction, parents still find it difficult and hard to make their children abstain from being enslaved to those magical screens. The last resort then is to find how to orient this generation so as to appropriately use those technology tools. Technology tools facilitate the development of some competencies. Some learners proved to be good interviewers, or excellent photographers, others efficient actors who perfectly used mobile phones in acting out their plays. Owing to that, I understood that being assigned real roles in authentic contexts helped students better use their English. Technology thus was just a tool that facilitated their tasks and improved their performance

Keywords

ICT - EFL