Reflection on Warschauer, Shetzer & Meloni

The dual immersion suggested in this article is a new idea to me. This idea, no doubt, explore the scope of taking technology as a tool for teaching English. To communicate with others effectively in this rough sea of technology, studets have to learn the language as well as the technology.

In my school, technology is often used as a tool for communication with students from different countries. AV conferencing is not something new to my students that we often have different inter-city activities such as debating and sharing. Of course, these activities are all in English. Students enhance their language skills not because the computers installed language learning software, but it's because they simply have to use the language to argue or exchange ideas with others. This is a truly authentic environment for language learning and this is a real communicative approach. Not only the langauge skills are enhanced, some students now even know how to connect the AV conferencing, what skills they need to use when having AVCON (a little slower pace when speaking, getting used to the time lag, etc). Technology really helps in this context.