Instructions with Technologies for Middle School Classrooms

Technology is very much part of language learning throughout the world at all different levels. It is very useful to the primary sector as much as in adult education. In middle classroom, technologies are ideally placed to help teachers working with learners, and learners working independently, to do the necessary ‘languaging’ that makes their language development possible. By technology, students are able to go through a process of creating and re-creating text until it is fully comprehensible to others and is accurate. Students can also create a draft, show it to others and, based on feedback, can make changes to improve the text. The tools can also help students by showing that the spelling or grammar needs work, too. Technology makes this much easier, and makes it more likely that learners will engage with the editing process to produce the highest-quality text that they can. This writing can then be displayed for others to look at and comment on.

Another area that technology supports very effectively is project work. Getting learners to do work about topics that are of interest to them, or topics that are taught in other parts of the curriculum is a great way to improve their skills. Technology makes this possible wherever you are in the world. Teachers and learners can go online to read or listen to material about different areas of interest, and can then write or speak about what they have discovered, telling others in the class or other classes elsewhere in the world.