CHAPTER 6 Learning take place in social interaction

3. Technology has often led to LESS interaction in language classrooms. Why? How can we "fix" this? Create some activities that demostrates how technology can be used to lead to more interaction.

Because of the use that teachers have given to the technological devices. The kind of activities they develop have the same characteristics that the traditional activities have such as teacher-centered activities, students do not move from their seats or silence is the golden rule.

We can fix this by using the technology as a place to gather, the internet is a source that can enable us to have social connections between our students outside the classroom, this can help to reinforce the social relationships in the school.

Activities:

The creation of blogs to interact outside the classroom.

Make a movie using computer programs (group project)

Collaborative creation of posters (different purposes)

L2 students have to send e-mails to native English speakers (pen pal letters)