Blending technologies in ESL courses

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El salvador, according with some researchers, is stagnant in a old educational culture, to be more specific around 100 years. Thats means that El Salvador in one old age educational didactical country, sadly, this had moved on to the culture that salvadorean people have, a conformist culture of ''Do what you can do'' not ''be better of what you are''
Improvement is the only key to become a better utopic country.

Resultado de imagen para blended learningThe article ""Blending Technologies in ESL Courses" States the necessity that all curriculums should being aware of the technological necessities that the society is asking, to built more captable students that can fullfil the professional demands and perfomence.
Also the article presents some issues that are breaking the developmental ESL COURSES processes 
That posed up a question... How benefical are the ESL courses for our students?
The history had showed us that when a potencial idea is not take it with the enough consideration, more in developmental fields, the ones that decided to avoid it, become useless.

El salvador is one country with a lot of lacks when educational development we talk, resources are one of the principal issues that breaks the technological curricular development in the classrooms, for example: Is imposible to give a class related to how to cook a cake if they don't have a chicken.
Is exactly the same situations in ESL courses in salvadorean classrooms. some schools are not captable to work on this types of classes, so they decided to just don't do it... sadly, this affects not just the students, also, the future of our country.

One interesting point that worth it to states is the metodological idea that the article provided... The podcast methodology; This is one of the answers to the questions ''How to make the listening activities different and meaninful for our students?'' well the podcast presents a interesting way to work on different fields related to listening skills.
For example: Better assimilation to native speakers, more captable students ETC....

In conclusion, the information to develop better educational processes is enough to creates a curriculum that is captable to follow how the world and, most important, the educational trends are changing. like teachers we most be aware of this, to be ready for what is comming....

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  1. Beatriz Cruz4 de febrero de 2018, 7:42

    Hello Diego, I agree with you when you say that is difficult teach a cooking class when they do not have chicken. Sadly, in the country we have a lack of technology and corauge to develop something new. Students will feel eager to improve their English knowledge by different ways, but sometimes teachers prefer not to do anything to help them because they do not have enough resources.

    Good job my dear friend.

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