The third Reflective Journal (TLL)

The second Tutor for the Students

This is the third Reflective Journal in Technology and Language Learning. It is about technology for helping student in speaking and how to pronoun some words. It is really needed for making easy in the twenty first century students and teachers. Sometimes, we do not realize about that, but we usually and often use it in every daily activities. For example, when we listened to the music especially English song, we have learnt how to pronoun it well. We did it by imitating the voice.

In the classroom, the teacher teaches the students with showing them some videos which include some important lesson for the student. They should listen and give attention to the video, the teacher also asks to the student to retell what the video tells about. This activity means that the student should speak up in the classroom. The technology helps the student to acquire the second language; we can call it as the second tutor.

Based on Swain’s statement about the comprehensible output, the technology have been very helpful for us. We can know our mistakes when we are speaking by recording it and we can correct our speaking after playing it. The technology has shown the advantages that it can do human’s duty. Before the existing technology, the human’s duty can not be changed by anything, but when the technology exists in our life, everything was easy to do.

The students also can learn about their lesson by them selves, they do not need to come to the class because the technology is so easy to access. The teacher can send her/his lesson by email although it contents of video or others. So we are not wrong if we say the technology as the second tutor. It assists the main tutor (real teacher) to teach the students to speak up and pronounce the words well.