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THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL TOOLS IN THE CLASSROOM
Umida Makhsimova
The Student of MA TESOL, Webster in Tashkent
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13300662
As today`s young learners are digital native, traditional teaching methods are not
popular any more. It is very hard to engage students by using hand out and text books. Arno
Macia ( 2012 ) says that everyone is the independent user of IT and in every field it has got
very significant role in the society. Like other fields, in education and teaching teachers can
not organize their lessons without technologies. Since all the students are from Generation Z
and they are digital native students for each lesson I have to prepare tasks online. Sometimes
checking students vocabulary is also takes more time and many students think that is very
time consuming and boring process. That is why for ice breaker activity, I mostly use online
games from “ Bamboozle” or Kahoot” or Quizzez.com”. According to Kirovska ( 2017 ) using
technologies helps teacher to make more interesting lesson atmosphere.
As learning center provides projector I always use presentations for my students. Canva
is the best website for me. Firstly, it is totally free and it offers many free and interesting
emojis, videos and pictures. That is why, I do not need to search some picture or graphics
from Google.
Moreover, we cannot imagine our lessons without CALL activities. Not only universities
but also at schools or Learning Centers as well teachers are using them. They make our
lessons much more interesting and understandable. Daa Haan ( 2011 ) said that today`s
modern students are very engaged to digital tools and they are active users of IT. Because of
these reasons, we have to use them in our lessons.
Although my students are very active in Reading and Listening tasks and their mock
results are also very good in exams, their speaking and writing results are not good enough.
The main reason of it is they do not use Advanced Grammar in their written speeches or
essays. Although in the classroom they seem to understand everything, they cannot use them
in real life. I have used many ways and games to fix this problem. I have chosen Conjunctions
theme as an assignment.
There are some reasons why I have created these game is Bamboozle is totally free for
users and signing up to the website and creating new games is also easy. When it comes to
other websites, they always have problems with sharing codes or sometimes some games or
tasks will be removed without any reason. Secondly, other sites provide gifs, emojis, texts and
other good visuals for only premium users or least users have to buy monthly accounts. But
this site is totally different.
Thirdly, by using its own library, we are able to add videos or background picture for the
question. Last but not least we can write explanations to the answer part. If teachers have kids
students they can add music for kids. As more than 1 million English teachers are using it, we
are able to use other teachers` work to learn new things or to develop our own making game
styles.
In conclusion, these game helps them to remember confusing rules in grammar very
well. After showing the answer, I always give another examples and explanation. I have
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notices good resuls and active grammar in my students essays after using this game. Short
descriptions and examples help them to use them actively in their written exercises.
References:
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Burns ( 1999 ) Jolly,D, & Bolitho, R. ( 2011 )
A Framework for material writing
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Tomlinson ( E.D ). Materials development in language teaching
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Macalister,J (2016 )
Adapting and Adapting materials. In issues in material development
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pp.57-64 ). Brill.
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Tomlinson ( 2013 ) Bunting,J, D ( 2018 )
Second language writing materials development
pp. 1-6
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Arno Macia ( 2012 ) The Role of Technology in Teaching Language for Specific Purpose
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