TLL

ICT: Digital Media in Language Learning

By Ira Ernawati

As we know that the students today are digital native. They  have regocnized technology since they was born. They live with technology around them. Hence it  often makes them easy in using technology especially in learning.

One kind of technology that applys in school is called ICT (Information and Communication Technology). There are many digital medias that we can find there as like google, facebook, blog, skype,  youtube and webquest. Those digital media have own use to help us in learning language. Basically they can hepl learners to develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skill. For example here is blog, we can use it as a place for sharing information about learning language, for helping us to increase our writing and reading skill, reriching our vocabulary and also as a place of having discussion lenguage learning.

One important thing that we should understand even digital media can hepl us. It also has  some weaknesses. So we should be wise in applying it in our class and also understand what kind of digital media which is appropiate to apply in out lesson.Well before digital media is exist,the language learning was supported by traditional media as like prited text and image.

29^th September 2011 was amazing TLL class for me. It was because the lecturer gave difference way in learning TLL. He delivered the material by doing debate. He provided a topic for us. It was about ‘Language Laboratory vs Internet accesses. By this activity, we could share our knowledge about technology and also support us to encourage learner to show up and come up their self and their understanding about the topic.

From our debate, now we know that the use of ICT involves digital media is depended on situation and the need of the school itself. So as the candidate of teacher, we should understand it and protect our students from the bad effect of it. The best way that we can do is preparing our self as good as possible in mastering the technology.