Utilization of Technology in Second Language Instruction

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Technology is one of the most significant drivers of both social and linguistic challenges. It lies at the heart of the globalization process; affecting education work and culture. The use of English as second language has increased rapidly. At present the role and status of English is that it is the language of social context, political, socio cultural, business, education, industries, media, library, communication among borders and key subject in curriculum and language imparting education. In this study we described the extent of usage of technology in second language instruction and demonstrated the value of integrating technology tools into their classroom curriculum.

METHODS

This research study made use of the descriptive and survey method to gather, record, analyze and interpret the prevailing findings of this research Eighty eight grade Two pupils and three grade II teachers responded to a set of semi-structured questions. Likert Scale as guide in interpreting the results of the study was used by the researcher. Such method was used in determining the extent of utilization of technology in English instruction.

RESULTS

English language have different skills and system such as speaking, listening, writing, reading, composition writing and vocabulary enrichment. The study revealed that teachers mostly used technology for teaching speaking, listening and reading. For teaching these skills they used video or audio clips, youtube video collections and showed English movies. Teachers also used different techniques to teach vocabulary by using technology. They showed variety of examples and relevant pictures or incidents on slides to teach vocabulary and ask students to tell exact word and synonym. Using technology is considered as the great extent factor in improving pupils performance especially in second language instruction.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrate the need of the teacher to follow strictly the guidelines in technology utilization in teaching the second language in order to achieve better performance of the learners.