History of Educational Technology in ELT

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  • First

    First
    The history of technology in education can be traced to Modern library introduction and pencil in the 1600s.
  • Tools

    Tools
    The 19th century sees the introduction of projectors, radio, mimeograph, slide ruler, videotapes...
  • Computers

    Computers
    Computers have been used for language teaching even in 1960's.
  • Corpus

    Which texts are generally assumed to be representative of a given language
  • Attention to Technology

    Attention to Technology
    According to the findings, much attention was not given to technology in teaching English language until 2012, which can be linked to the increase in the mobile phone ownership and computers.
  • More Tools

    More Tools
    The 21st century welcomes social networks, smart phones and 3D technologies.
  • Connectivism

    Learning theory created by Stephen Downs and George Siemens which states how globally technology and internet brought up new opportunities.
  • Technology

    Technology improves learning pronunciations, language fluency and performance and skills development.
  • Foreign Language Importance

    Foreign Language Importance
    English, being the language behind most technological and scientific developments, economies, administration, literary works and more.
  • Internet

    Internet
    Information, both accurate and inaccurate, is free and available for use instantly over the Internet. Due to this and several other innovations and renovations in educational methods, there is a strong need to elaborate on educational technology tools grounded within a historical framework and to reflect on both constraints and affordances of new technologies.
  • Second Life (SL)

    SL is now the latest environment for learning languages, students are presented with the opportunity to avoid psychological difficulties brought about by conventional classrooms.
  • Technology and Teaching

    The English Teaching method has definitely been changed with the current technologies. Indeed, technology presents such a significant number of alternatives for making teaching more productive and interesting. It is an important linguistic and social changer.
  • Smart Phones

    Smart Phones
    One cannot argue that the future of learning is with the phones. Various researches have proven the efficiency of mobile learning.