Technological Prop Up to Develop Listening Skills to Meet the Changing Needs of the 21st Century
TECHNOLOGICAL PROP UP TO DEVELOP LISTENING SKILLS TO MEET THE CHANGING NEEDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
S.Mathumathy,
Ph D Scholar,
Dept of Linguistics,
Bharathiar University,
Coimbatore-46,
Tamilnadu. madhuphdsch@gmail.com Abstract In the midst of the rapid tempo at which technology is changing nowadays, the styles and strategies of students ' learning are also developing and escalating. This paper will have a bird’s eye view on how using technology can facilitate develop listening skills. First, the low-tech components: radio, tape recorders, and language laboratories. Permeation of technology is seen everywhere. First, new technologies are an important component of any pedagogy that prepares students for living in the 21st century. New technologies are obviously essential in teaching students how to be literate with the tools that they will need for their futures. Second, new technologies are an important ingredient in meeting the challenge of individual differences. Where print technologies present many barriers to students because of their essential “one size fits all” quality, digital media can have just the opposite effect. Their malleability and customizability allow digital media to provide a flexible platform that can meet the challenge of different kinds of learners. Then the huge influence video has had in language teaching (mid-tech). And finally, explores some of the high-tech features of computer technology in and out of the classroom. As a gizmo for listening skills development, there is a logical match of system characteristics (combining text, audio and video) and the goal of listening skills development in L2.
Introduction
Listening is "the process of receiving, constructing meaning form, and responding to spoken and / nonverbal messages". Michael Purdy offers a slightly expanded definition that includes memory: Listening is the active and dynamic process of attending, perceiving, interpreting, remembering, and responding to
S.Mathumathy,
Ph D Scholar,
Dept of Linguistics,
Bharathiar University,
Coimbatore-46,
Tamilnadu. madhuphdsch@gmail.com Abstract In the midst of the rapid tempo at which technology is changing nowadays, the styles and strategies of students ' learning are also developing and escalating. This paper will have a bird’s eye view on how using technology can facilitate develop listening skills. First, the low-tech components: radio, tape recorders, and language laboratories. Permeation of technology is seen everywhere. First, new technologies are an important component of any pedagogy that prepares students for living in the 21st century. New technologies are obviously essential in teaching students how to be literate with the tools that they will need for their futures. Second, new technologies are an important ingredient in meeting the challenge of individual differences. Where print technologies present many barriers to students because of their essential “one size fits all” quality, digital media can have just the opposite effect. Their malleability and customizability allow digital media to provide a flexible platform that can meet the challenge of different kinds of learners. Then the huge influence video has had in language teaching (mid-tech). And finally, explores some of the high-tech features of computer technology in and out of the classroom. As a gizmo for listening skills development, there is a logical match of system characteristics (combining text, audio and video) and the goal of listening skills development in L2.
Introduction
Listening is "the process of receiving, constructing meaning form, and responding to spoken and / nonverbal messages". Michael Purdy offers a slightly expanded definition that includes memory: Listening is the active and dynamic process of attending, perceiving, interpreting, remembering, and responding to
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