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..