Volume : II, Issue : II, February - 2013

Technology and Task–based Approach in ELT

Dr. K. Akilandeeswari, Baji V. Balan

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The society is going through a major paradigm shift from Industrial age to Information age. The shift has its natural impact on the field of education. The traditional long lecture format of teaching needs a reviewing in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) paradigm nobody can predict the future development. But we know for sure that the technology will be present also in education. We have found many significant indicators that ICT changes the educational environment and influences the teaching methods. Teaching and learning of language are crucial at all levels. Teachers teach language to students using different techniques. The latest digital technologies help the students to learn the language easily and efficiently. These digital technologies are both potential and fragile. The potentiality of the technology lands many opportunities and the fragility of it lands many challenges. This paper is an academic as well as a practical expression of the commitment of academia to be sensitive to and involved in the issues of Technology enabled English Teaching on the one hand, and to use Task-based approach in ELT

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Dr. K. Akilandeeswari, Baji V.Balan Technology and Task-based Approach in ELT International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.II February 2013

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