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Article: Promoting language acquisitions: technology and English language learners.(Technology In The Classroom)
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- Childhood Education
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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As a former English as a second language (ESL) teacher, I know firsthand how important it is for teachers to find technology that promotes language development for English language learners. While teaching ESL in an inner-city school in the Dallas area during the early 1990s, I taught students from such countries as Korea, Japan, Mexico, Bosnia, Vietnam, and Honduras. With such cultural and language diversity in my elementary classroom, I needed software that met the students' diverse needs, and training on how to use such technology. Although I was a recently certified ESL teacher, I had no training on how to use technology to enhance learning. As a result, technology ...