Technology and Language in Education: The Effect of New Technology on T

Technology and verbiage in Education The Effect of New Technology on Teaching LanguagesAnnie Moore, a 15-year-old girl from Ireland arrived at Ellis Island in New York City on January 1, 1892. She was the first immigrant to come to that United States immigration station, that she was certainly non the last. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2000), 28.4 million of the 285.2 million US residents in 2000 were foreign-born. With such a large amount of our population being foreign-born, the need for effectual language education is immense. The use of technology is very useful in alleviating the pressure of such a tremendous demand for ESL (English as a secondly language) and EFL (English as a foreign language) programs (Education World, Inc., 2004).Schools all over the country are adding the latest technology to their classrooms, and students are benefiting tremendously. Programs designed to incorporate reading and writing practices in a foreign language are modernized with t echnological advances which make it possible to interact with not only people within the classroom but students and teachers at other schools and all over the world. With the touch of a button, students at a school that might not be able to afford a foreign language program can be in contact with a school that has rich foreign language resources. Students can send indite assignments over the Internet to be checked and graded they can take online quizzes and assessments that will be graded within seconds and give blinking feedback for the student. Real-time instant conversation makes it possible for a student anywhere to keep up with what their class is covering, regardless of whether the student is out sick, or unable to be in class, or even if th... ...rld.com/foreign_lang/Macias, R., & Rose, D.J. (1994, August). Wired for Knowledge. Hispanic, 7(7), 17-22. Retrieved kinsfolk 26, 2004, from Eric EBSCO database.University of California Davis Department of Information and Ed ucational Technology. (2004). Online AP Course Preps High School Students for University-Level Learning. Tech News. Retrieved October 3, 2004, from http//technews.ucdavis.edu/news2.cfm?id=762Upbin, B. (1999, March). Instant Feedback in the Classroom. Forbes, 163(6), 68-71. Retrieved September 26, 2004, from Academic Search Premier database.U.S. Census Bureau. (2000). U.S. Foreign-Born Population. Retrieved October 4, 2004, from http//www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/ cps2000.htmlWarschauer, M. (2002). A Developmental Perspective on Technology in Language Education. TESOL Quarterly, 36(3), 453-475.