TO LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGES USING MODERN TECHNOLOGIES.




Technology is part of the human development. Without it human beings didn’t would reached our present state of civilization. In their own history, human beings had use a lot of technologies and now the use of technology had reached a big development. In this particular case, studying languages at university, technology help students in different ways, allowing them to do his works more efficiently, saving time and assist them when they have to study.
In order to be clear, let us to take an example: if a student have to do a research about a specific theme, he can use the Internet, which is available at university, and found fast enormous quantities of information, virtual books, links which refer to the investigate topic, photos, music as well, etc. So, technology helps students to gather information and use it to accomplish his research. And after it, he can continue to use more technological tools, like Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, etc. in order to build his work, printing it as he wish, and/or make it available to show a visual presentation, if it is necessary.
The library is an old “invention”. In the past, if you wanted to find a book, you had to see a catalogue and you had to know what book you needed. At the present, using an online catalogue, students can find and relate books, authors, themes, very fast. It allows them to save time because they can find all what they need in the same place. Students can find books which have CD’s. It help them to understand better what they are reading, and are available in the Library. So, they can take it and listening in the Computer Unit in the same university.
There are many students who are studying foreign language, English for example, which is the more common at the present. Technology gives them the possibility to employ online dictionaries, websites like Oxford University, where they can hear how a word is pronounced in English, or they can practice English grammar doing test and rectifying mistakes in the moment. If you do not do it, you can do it in your home, depending if you have a Internet connection, or use a “cyber café” near your home.
Some universities have language laboratories, which are similar to Oxford University website, where they can practice their language skills. It allow them to develop quickly learning English language or to correct their mistakes.
The main conclusion that we can get, looking how a student can learn English today, is that him can use a lot of tools which allow him to learn better and faster than in the past, where was indispensable to have a teacher and some books available. This old way were slow and, sometime or depending the character of the student, very boring for him. To use technology allow students to learn fast and better and, why not, funny..

Chilean Miners: a new life.

MINERS

The case of the chilean miners, trapped deeply into the Earth for almost 70 days, caused a big impression in the entire World. For the first time in the history a group of men survived during a long time and the work of the rescue units permit to take them on the surface alive.
The press of the world concentrated their efforts to capture the situation and many of them, like the BBC, transmitted the all rescue operation, showing the importance that the press gives to this event.
This rescue become, in the case of our country, in a matter of national prestige and national pride, a symbol about what we are, about the “qualities” of own “race”, causing the entire country lived this drama day to day and compel the Government to use all their tool to take saves the miners.
After the rescue all the world wants to knows how their survived for a long time and, after it, many people wants to know who they are like persons, how they live normally, their families, their personal stories, etc. So, started the third part of this event (first part was to found them, second was the rescue ). A lot of the national and international press wanted to interview the miners. They received a big number of invitations coming from many countries, like Spain, Greece, the UK, etc. They received monetary offers too because this case “sold” to the public opinion and provoke big monetary utilities to the international companies, and national media too.
These facts changed to life of our miners. 70 days before the mine crushed upon them, they were common people, like any other workers, and suddenly they were transported into a unknown world, becoming like a rock stars, showed day by day in the medias of the country and the world. If we think that they don’t are people with a high culture, who are living in a little city their entire life, like Copiapo, for example, this projection onto the world attention surely had to be very hard to assimilate for them and their families.
It is inevitable that this case will be study deeply in the future. And use to make money too. Looking from the side of science this story is interesting because show how human beings can survive trapped for days and days, like Russian astronauts floating in the space for months. And will be used to make money, because is an interesting story, which concentrated the international curiosity, using books, films, interviews, just for quote some.
And it will compel the miners ( we don’t know if will be all of them or many ) to accept invitations, offers of many kinds of things, etc. In other words their drama will become ( but the true is that it is happening since a while ) a business, like happened with Che Guevara, the hippies and many others cases in the past.
A sense of mankind push the common sense to hope they would be return soon to have a normal life, if not their life can be very different and strange for them and looking they social skills that cannot be good.