Sanly M Andrade's Contribution

1.        The Concept of Technology:

There have been many definitions throughout the year about technology, choosing one there are two basic components that can be identified: 1) ‘knowledge’ or technique; and 2) ‘doing things’. Technology is always connected with obtaining certain result, resolving certain problems, completing certain tasks using particular skills, employing knowledge and exploiting assets (Lan and Young, 1996). This definition is a simple explanation about what technology is in order to understand how the knowledge plus technique and the doing combine to  get a result.

2.         ICTs in Education:

Integration of Information and Communication Technologies  have been an excellent tool to  Enhance the teaching experience and reach the goals in the Teaching and Learning process because this is the era of  communication facilities, for that reason  ICTs have revolutionized the education field, changing the ancient model of teacher, board, chalk and saliva in a interaction process with the society.

3.  The Use of Technology in English Teaching and Learning

The language  Teaching has as objective to develop in the learner 4 skills two of them are output skill as writing and speaking, the other ones are input skills  listening and reading, therefore learning a second language is a communication process which needs the  interaction and the work inside the society to develop those skills in a effective way and the use of technology has let that.

4. The Advantages of Information Technology in Teaching English 

ICTs  present many advantages in Teaching English:
 

* Using  multimedia lets  to create a context to teach English
* The computer  or different devices  are the means by which skills 

   are transferred to learners in a more real context.
* Efficiency  to make a standard evaluation of knowledge, not just 

   efficiency in time but in organization and fulfillment of goals

* Interaction among learners and  learners-teachers.

* Motivate learners to learn English using their devices

* Learners can learn in an autonomous way, it will let them check 

   their own progress.

* Using Modern technical ways demand tha the teacher change 

   their paradigm of teaching and learn how to  follow for effective 

   learning and teaching of the second language.

5. The Impact of Using Technology

Using technology has had a great impact in the society in many fields: education, industry and communication, but there  is a negative impact too. As technology has developed, the incorporation of this medium into the instruction process becomes necessary,  however  when a person cannot access to technology may feel that is not able to do something without it, so this has increase  lacking of recursive people.

In the education field it is important   to make English teachers aware of the strategies to use it in an effective manner, because the cyber-bullying has increase many problems in the education field.