Wednesday, March 16 2016

Week 9: Using Mobile Phones

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Susana Constanza

The reading for this week is very unusual. After the reading I found twenty interesting ideas for using Mobile Phones. I consider that those are ideas are practical; unconsciously we are using Mobile Phones for everything. If we use those phones for learning a second language as a result to this, the learning would be easier for us. Nowadays all of us we have one , but in the case of children they don’t have, for that reason I consider that this method  is  for teenagers, young and adults who are learning a second language.

One significant phrase the author of the article claim is that phones are social tools that facilitate authentic and relevant communication and collaborating among learners. Also, students can control over their own learning.
Firstly, one of the idea that call me the attention was using the text messaging feature to reinforce vocabulary learning .I used to do this and I can say that it works because it allow us to remember better the words because is a different strategy to reinforce vocabulary learning . Another was use the voice Memo Recorder Feature to record conversations outside de classroom. I think that it so benefit to collect information about interviews and conversations trying to use the language as much as possible . Finally one of the well know strategy is use the mobile phone for social networking, specially facebook and whatssap .It allows students interact to each other using the language , by a conversation, sharing information, photos, post comments, to be part of a group, discussing  etc .Actually  this idea is used by many students .

In conclusion, those ideas are planned to students with the purpose that they take a lot of advantages while there are learning the second language. They always are carrying  one, and this is practical , easy and significant to use in the daily life and for teachers is useful to provide tasks.