History of Ed Tech in Language Education

By Mertens
  • The Chalkboards

    The Chalkboards
    Chalkboards played a significant role in language classes, particularly in earlier eras when teachers had limited tools for visual representations of the language.
  • Radio

    Radio
    Radio is a beneficial device for language learning. Teachers have the ability to use the radio to support students to listen to lectures by outstanding speakers. Moreover, students are exposed to a language that is current and grounded in the lives of native speakers thanks to radio broadcasts (Alkamel, & Chouthaiwale, 2018).
  • Film Projector

    Film Projector
    The information effects we learn from movies are permanent, so this tool aids in the improvement of the students' words and grammar knowledge (Ammani, & Aparanjani, 2016).
  • Computers

    Computers
    B.F. Skinner started experimenting with teaching machines that made use of programmed learning in 1954, based on the theory of behaviourism. Skinner’s teaching machines were one of the first forms of computer-based learning. (Bates, 2019)
  • Television

    Television
    Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education. The best way to utilize television to help in education is through informative videos, TV shows, or documentaries that teachers can show during a lecture. (Bates, 2019)
  • Smart Board

    Smart Board
    Smart Board are used in many schools today. With the smart board, practicing new words, word structure, and sounds has been simple. It gives educators access to video clips, movies with interviews, electronic microscopes, other websites, etc. It enhances the learners' participation and collaboration in social interactions (Ammani, & Aparanjani, 2016).
  • References

    Alkamel, & Chouthaiwale, 2018
    Ammani, & Aparanjani, 2016
    Bates, 2019