“How would English language teachers use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?”

Technology now-a-days is a huge part of our life. It's a tool to communicate and deliver the information easily. So, It's really recommend for English language teacher to include technology in their teaching. One of the useful way to included it is to use social websites Like: blogs, wikis and delicious.

Blogs: 

In my opinion, using blog is useful for improving students' writing and reading skills, how?. For writing skills, teacher can give students some of the home-works that require them to post in their blogs like, express their opinions and ideas by writing in some topics that are chosen by the teacher. For reading, teacher may used for this skill by posting articles and asks them to read and reflect, so the teacher will know if they understand what they read or not.

Delicious:

This website is fantastic. The teacher can post a good online materials, like: links, videos, activities and games that help the students to understand and learn some lessons. The teacher can also used it to ask the students to share useful links that are related to their lessons.

Wiki:

Teacher can use wiki to ask students to upload their works in it, like: PowerPoint presentations. Teacher can used it too to upload a beneficial materials, assignments and students' grades. It's a very useful tool for students to interact with their  teacher and with their classmates.

The Possibility of Reaching Bax’s Normalization in our national context: Why is it possible?When is it possible/reached/achieved?How will it be reached?

In the article Stephan Bax discussed the development of CALL, the history of it, how it's now and how it will be in the future. 

He also discussed  the phases of CALL which were divided by Mark Warschauer into three phases: Behavioristic, communicative and integrative. Bax used these phases as a basic point to answer a three main questions which are where has CALL been? where is it now and were is it going?.

Bax explained the goal of CALL through the concept of normalization which is the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognized as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life. So, he suggested changes in order to make CALL reach a normalization stage in teaching. 

Bax said that CALL will reach that stage of normalization when computers are used every day in our classrooms of learning language by students and teachers.

In Saudi Arabia, most of the schools and universities improved their educational system and started to use computers, projectors, and smart boards in the classroom but the problem is that most of the teachers and students have lack of knowledge in how to use these technology. So, in order to achieve normalization, first we must change in educational systems and make the use of technology as tool to improve learning. Second, teachers should trained properly to use technology effectively. Finally, teach students how to use social web sites and used as a tool to communicate with their teachers and their classmates but  that doesn't mean to depend all on technology and remove from consideration the role of the teacher and the students in the classroom.
However, I believe that Saudi Arabia has the abilities to achieve normalization but all what is needed is time, knowledge and changes in the educational system and we will succeed if we want to make it happened.

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