Reflection on technological tool in English teaching and learnning

During the whole course of new technology in language teaching, there were several functional teaching tools that have affected my future English teaching. First, I think hot potato is a really practical teaching tool for language teachers to establish diverse categories of tests for students, which includes the most applicable test items types in this tool. Applying this tool to my authentic teaching, I have used this tool to establish some reading comprehension tests for my tutorial students, which reflected students' English reading comprehension skills as well as made me aware students' strengths and weakness in English reading comprehension. Secondly, WIKI and Bloggers are two interactional tool for language teachers to give feedback and supply complementary language practices for students. To me, I will adopt these two ways to my authentic teaching in the future that I will establish a blogging to add some useful reading material and videos for students to broaden their knowledge. Also, I will open a on-line forum for students to comment on different lessons after class. Thirdly, BBC WORLD is a multifunctional English learning tool to me. As a English teacher, I can adopt the teaching criterion to my authentic teaching as well as select some practical exercise for students. As a student in my spare time, I also will use BBC English website to upgrade my English skills. Fourthly, I didn't know 'Second Life' until I took this New Tech class. Obtaining distinct teaching skills from Second life, I have adopted to my communicative English teaching for my tutorial students. I have encouraged my students to open accounts on it and all of us have chatted in Second Life community for a while. At this case, most of my students found it is really useful to reinforce their written English as well as enhance their interests in English learning. Later on ,I am trying to host a on-line class from Second Life in order to improve students' oral English as well. I think it would motivate the introverted students to practice their oral English. In conclusion, I have gained several theoretical and practical support from this course. Finally, I want to thank Professor Christoph and MATESL course and I learn a lot from this program.