The use of Computer Technology in EFL Classroom: Advantages and Implications

1. Advantages

2. The use of computer technology can make EFL learning easy and interesting.

3. The use of computer technology offers many opportunities for language learners to learn the language by their own using internet.

4. The use of computer technology, with internet, provides language learners many opportunities of practicing and using English.

5. The use of computer technology also helps the learners to assess and test themselves and get feedback.

6. The use of computer technology makes language learning learner-centered.

7. The use of computer technology in EFL teaching can motivate students because the learning environment is more enjoyable.

8. The use of computer technology in EFL classroom can help students to understand the complex concepts more easily.

9. The use of computer technology in EFL classroom can help students to learn at their own pace.

10. The use of computer technology in EFL instruction can provide a multisensory learning environment.

11. The use of computer technology can increase students’ participation in activities in the classroom.

12. Implications

13. Foreign language learning is considered to be both an intensive and time-consuming activity. According to Bialystok and Hakuta (1994)

14. To reach a high level of fluency it takes between 700 and 1,320 hours practicing English, however EFL students spend only 150 hours per academic year.

15. It is believed that studying the target language in a country where that mother tongue is spoken, helps to assimilate the language more quickly, however this is the most expensive method, so most students only conform with receiving poor and insufficient information in their countries. Cummins (1998)