Integration of Technology in English Language Teaching:Challenges and Perspectives

Foreign language teaching which is based on technology has provided many effective plans inthe learning process. Technology is applied for the sublimity of modern styles and provides somany options as making the process of teaching and learning interesting and also makingeducation more productive in terms of improvements. The use of technology in teaching leads toa good understanding of the target language with ease. Learners stand a better chance ofimproving their foreign language skills if learning is fortified with technology; therefore,technology-aided learning environment is a key factor that motivates the learners to do better.This paper aims to analyze the requisite of multimedia technology to language teaching and alsobrings out the problems faced by using these technologies. It also tries to show the problemsexisting in practical teaching, such as: major means substituted by the assisting one, loss ofspeaking communication, the restriction of students’ thinking potential, abstract thinkingreplaced by imaginable thinking. Lastly gives some suggestions and strategies to the existingproblems.

کلیدواژه ها:

Technology ، English Language teaching ، Motivation