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USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) TO ENHANCE LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. A. GUMAWANG JATI
In recent years, information and communication technology (ICT) has become
embedded and affected the every aspect of our lives. Rapid development of ICT
has changed our language teaching pedagogy at all levels. Teachers, curriculum
developers, researchers have been constantly striving to find techniques to use
some form of it to both assist and enhance language learning. What is more exciting
is that studies have demonstrated positive effects that ICT brings towards
students’ learning motivation (Chenoweth, Ushida & Murday, 2006; Stepp-
Greany, 2002), students’ personal needs and learning styles (Gimenez, 2000),
students’ language mastery (Stepp-Greany, 2002), effective teaching and learning
process (Al-Jarf, 2004), etc. Although these studies have shown that ICT
has the potential important role in supporting and enhancing language learning,
the use of ICT should never be the goal in and of itself. The responsibility for
language instruction should be in the hands of qualified teachers who have the
knowledge and expertise to manage and to make the best use of it to accomplish
learning objectives.
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