21st Century Learning and English Classrooms

21st Century Learning and English Classrooms

21st century is a century that requires many skills to be acquired to be able to keep up with the advancements in various fields in our lives and one of the most prominent of these fields is technology, but what is technology? With a simple definition, it can be said that technology is the implementation of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, but especially in a reproducible way according to Wikipedia. We use technology for many purposes in our lives, but what about education? In education, both teachers and students benefit from technology extensively. Now, let's look at the relationship between these two fields in terms of students and teachers respectively. When we look from the students' perspective, we can see that students use technology for the opportunity of learning irrespective of the place they are in. Thanks to that, students can learn new things even if they are not in the school. Then, when we look at the role of technology in terms of teachers, we can notice that teachers prefer to use technology in English language teaching especially to make their students do listening activities besides grammar and vocabulary teaching and practice. For example, teachers can give an online book from Myon as a homework to their students to make them do listening practice (Myon is a website in which students can listen to the voice of the person who reads the book), so that they can learn how to read words in English. In conclusion, technology is an indispensable part of English classrooms in 21st century.