Uzbekistan state university of world languages synthesis writing

THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SECIALIZED EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

UZBEKISTAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF WORLD LANGUAGES

SYNTHESIS WRITING

Topic: FLT Methodology

Title: The Significance of Information and Communication Technology in Teaching Foreign Languages

Group:103

Written by: Nazirova Navruza

Checked by: Pulatova Rano

TASHKENT – 2020

The Significance of Information and Communication Technology in Teaching Foreign Languages

Living in the era of information explosion, a gale of change is blowing in all spheres and the pedagogy of teaching English language is also not an exception. A lot of researches are being conducted in order to create a successful language learning environment for EFL students. Together with a great many teaching methods and theories, a significant role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is also increasing day by day. Having dealt with three different articles which are dedicated to this very issue, we can realize a crucial importance of ICT in teaching English language.

Initially, it is vital to depict that three research papers chosen to synthesize the role of ICT were written one after another during the period of 2009, 2012 and 2015, which present deeper and deeper involvement of ICT in the sphere of teaching EL. If to cope with the first article written by Dilip P. Barad under the title “Experimenting ICT in Teaching English Language and Literature”, you can notice the initial attempts to use ICT in EFL classrooms. At the beginning of the article the author states that technophobic teachers have no place in this new world order. His research paper aims to share practical experiments with ICT in Teaching English Language and Literature. According to this paper, the teacher of English, who joined Commerce and BBA College in 1996, was stuffed with literary theories and felt like an alien on the earth. However, with the help of technology and the extensive use of web 2.0 components, internet, blogs, e-groups, SMSs, emails, e-dictionaries and many others, he was able to survive from being alienated or feeling like a fish out of water. Regarding the ten experiments , Dilip P. Barad points out that ICT is a tool, which can really assist to improve the proficiency level of students and empower them with better understanding of language and literature. The second article titled “Challenges for Using ICT in Education: Teachers’ Insights” by Hadi Salehi and Zeinab Salehi provides information of investigating the teachers’ perceptions of the barriers and challenges preventing teachers to integrate ICT in the classroom. In order to accomplish this research, thirty high school English teachers were selected from five main educational districts in the city of Isfahan, Iran and were examined according to a validated questionnaire, whose results and findings indicated that the high school teachers are familiar with ICT, however, insufficient technical supports at school, little access to ICT and Internet, shortage of class time needed to learn using ICT are becoming the key barriers for teachers to integrate ICT into the curriculum. The third article “The effect of online tools on reading habits among teenage students. Model of chances and dangers” was written by Izabela Olszak on the basis of the survey conducted to discuss issues concerning the teens’ habits of the usage of ICT tools in the process of teaching reading to adolescents, pinpointing distinctive factors which determine whether their application brings benefits or drawbacks. The study was carried out in a selected Lower Secondary school in Lublin Voivodeship and the findings of the study show that the usage of ICT devices is quite popular among adolescents. The author affirms that students apply online tools eagerly in their reading practices, almost 80% of the researched use ICT devices and consider them beneficial while learning.

All in all, ICT is vital to engage students in English language learning process despite some barriers and challenges faced, as the ICT tools have constituted a sign of progress in foreign language teaching so far and will surely help both teachers and students to be more innovative and to pool their knowledge in effective ways.