M6 Blog Post
Advantages of Integrating Technology: Integrating technology to help students learn a foreign language can be extremely helpful for both English Language Learners and foreign language learning. The students can speak with and write to people from all around the world that speak the language they are trying to learn to bring a purpose to learning a new language. It can also bring an ease to incorporating different subjects as well as different languages into your content area subjects in your classroom. By using technology within your classroom to help students learn a foreign language, you will open up doors for your students while not having to spend hours planning time consuming activities and lessons. Disadvantages of Integrating Technology: Issues with integrating ELL into the classroom with technology is the demands on content area teachers. Teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching all the content area subjects to students with limited English proficiency. The need to...
