The First Journal Reflection of Technology and Language Learning

By: Nur Hasanah

                Technology has developed as the time goes on. For example, The progressing of  Web 1.0 developed into Web 2.0. As digital generation, we should adapt with this situation to upgrade our skill and knowledge to sell “our selves”. Few months ago, Flaskdisk was the sophisticated device with the expensive price but it is not sophisticated anymore nowdays. The new softwares have been created for the sake of efficience and ease in our life. We can take a plenty of benefit for teaching and learning process.

                Some theories of learning that was attended in the last session, were about Behavioristic Call, Communicative Call and Integrative Call. Behavioristic Call was implemented in 1960s-1970s. This theory of learning emphasize on accuracy. While, Cognitive Call which was implemented in 1980s-1990s emphasize on the fluency. Then, Integrative call has been implemented in 1990s-present. We can see the details in the table bellow:

J	Behavioristic Call	Communicative Call	Integrative Call
View of Language	Structural	Cognitive	Sociocultural
English Teaching	Grammar translation & Audio lingual	Communicative language teaching	Content Based & English for Specific Purpose/ English for Academic Purpose (ESP/EAP)
Principle Use of Computer	Drill & practise	Communicative exercise	Authentic Discourse
Principal objective	Acuracy	Fluency	agency
The Characteristic	-Repeated Explosure -Computer for carrying out repeated drills -Technology as a tutor	-Grammar taught implicity -Used to stimulate discussion , writing or critical thingking -The program avoid telling students that they are wrong	Consist of : -Multimedia Call (CD-ROM) -Web-based Call (on Internet)
Role of Teacher	Provider	Provider and guide	Facilitator

                In my opinion, Integrative Call is very effective as we can get  the material that we want. So, we can focus learning the details of the subject. Nowdays, as scholar i often use internet because most of my lectures give assignment which necessitate me for blogging and surfing on internet.  I joined online learning which emphasize on listening and it is very usefull for expanding my experience hearing the way native speaker talk. Internet is as abandoned resource that has multifuction that ease our life.