Mastering language cannot be completed in a short time. Second language learners need to put a lot of effort and time to speak the language fluently.
Especially, in EFL classroom, just a few hour lesson a day can never enough to learn and practice language in each student. Commins(1998) mentions that formal L2 teaching often unsuccessful because learners receive impoverished or insufficient input in the target language.
According to Robert J. Blake's Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning, he asserts that "technology could play a major role in enhancing L2 learners' contact with the target language, especially in the absense of study abroad." I totally agree with it since i saw many people who try to learn languages through technology without going abroad and get a high score in TOEFL or another official English speaking test. EFL students hardly have a chance to talk with foreigners, so it is difficult for them to practice target language outside of the classroom.
Thus, teachers have to use technology to supply more lessons such as providing reading materials or having discussion in the classroom blogs. Besides, teachers have to help students to practice target language continuously using the internet tools by themselves.
Blake, Robert J. & Dorothy M. Chun. (2008) Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning. Washington, D.C. :Georgetown University Press
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As teachers we have to use all the resources we can to facilitate our students' learning, don't we.
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