Technology with ELL students

Chapter 10 talks about using technology in English Language Learning and Foreign Language Instruction. As an educator I will always face the challenge of teaching English to students of other languages while maintaining my instruction to correlate with the State’s Course of Study Standards. When I was in High School, I took Spanish I and II and since English is the language I was born speaking Spanish was very hard and frustrating for me to understand. Therefore, when I have student’s who do not speak English I want to be able to provide them with some of the best resources for them to learn to speak and read English as quickly as possible. The computer is one resource that can help with that task and this chapter did a magnificent job of providing some various software and websites to aid in vocabulary and language development. This is helpful because so often the teacher does not speak fluently the home language of those ELL students and technology can help provide some of those tools. Also, at my school we have an ELL teacher who comes in at different times during the day to pull out our ELL students. She works with them orally and with written assignments to reinforce what is being taught in the classroom. Having these ELL students in our classroom is not a problem, but just something that we must admit will never change. I will continuously strive to give each and every student the utmost education possible through hands on activities as well as using technology.