jawaban UTS ICT

 

UNIVERSITAS INDRAPRASTA PGRI

PROGRAM PASCA SARJANA

SOAL UJIAN TENGAH SEMESTER GANJIL

TAHUN AKADEMIK 2012/ 2013

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Program Studi                         : PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS

Mata Kuliah                            :  ICT in Language Education

Nama                                       :  Encep Agus Abdullah

NPM                                       : 20117470033

Semester                                  : III

 

 PART ONE : ANSWER THE FOLLOWING CONCEPTS

 1.   Elaborate the following concepts :

  A.    Information and communication technology

  B.    The benefits of ICT in language learning

  C.    The weakness of ICT in language learning

 

 2. Tell the appropriate ICT media and the reason for :

    A.   Teaching listening and speaking

    B.   Teaching reading

    C.   Teaching writing

    D.   Teaching Integrated Skills

 3.  Why is internet important in language learning?

4.  What are the critical issues of utilizing internet in Indonesia?

 

1.         ELABORATE THE FOLLOWING CONCEPTS ;  :

 A.        INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY :

 Information and Communication Technology  is the technology required for information processing, in particular, the use of electronic computers, communication devices and software applications to convert, store, protect, process, transmit and retrieve information from anywhere, anytime.

 

 B . THE BENEFITS OF ICT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING :

Many  benefits of ICT in language learning for instance : ICT can facilitate not only delivery of instruction, but also learning process itself. Moreover, ICT can promote international collaboration and networking in education and professional development. There is a range of ICT options from video conferencing through multimedia delivery to websites which can be used to meet the challenges teachers face today. In fact, there has been increasing evidence that ICT may be able to provide more flexible and effective ways for lifelong professional development for today’s teachers. ICT also is fundamental to the implementation of e-education and offers greater opportunities to access learning, redress inequalities and improve the quality of teaching and learning . ICT also makes it possible for teachers to offer learners unprecedented opportunities for development and lifelong learning

   C.  THE WEAKNESSES OF ICT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

           The weakness of ICT in language learning :

       1.  The program is designed using branching program so the student can have the possibility to skip the assigned topics when they think it is too easy. To avoid from happening teacher should go around the language laboratory and monitor that everyone is doing the same thing. If the teacher sees one student is trying to play smart and skip the topic, he should remind the student to go back to the assigned topic.

 

           2. The program will be useless in the hand of not creative teachers because they will just bring the students to the computer laboratory and let the students do whatever they want. In this kind of situation, some students feel that the teacher will not supervise them so instead of doing the activities in the program they will just play computer.

2.    THE APPROPRIATE ICT MEDIA AND THE REASONS FOR ;

 A.        TEACHING LISTENING AND SPEAKING  :

Teaching listening and speaking, In my opinion, the appropriate ICT media for listening and speaking is availability of language laboratory which is equipped with audio –visual like CD, Video player, Earphone, computer and so on. The students can listen to the native speaker model which is displayed with video player. The students are asked to simulate the conversation which is displayed in video-cd. The teacher guide to practice among them

 

  B.       TEACHING READING :

The appropriate ICT media can be used is blog . The teacher can guide the students to read the reading materials from someone’s blogger

 C.       TEACHING WRITING :

 The appropriate ICT media in teaching writing is tape recorder or CD player. By using tape recorder or CD player, we can dictate by using tape recorder or CD player and the student will write down what the cassette says (for elementary student)

 D.  TEACHING INTEGRATED SKILLS :

 The appropriate ICT media in teaching integrated skills is computer and software. By using computer and software, the student can master all of the listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The name of the soft ware is grammar software. It contains of questions and automatic answer and grammar lesson.

 

 

 

3.  WHY IS INTERNET IMPORTANT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING ?

 Internet is very important in language because learners are given a chance to study and review the materials as many times they want without limited time. For example e-mail writing clearly create a real purpose and audience , both of which are sometimes lacking in the more conventional writing classroom, develop student’s grasp of technology , improved their command of English, give them a sense of pride in their own work and enlarged their awareness of themselves as member of international, global community.

 

4.  WHY ARE THE CRITICAL ISSUES OF UTILIZING INTERNET IN INDONESIA?

     The critical issues of utilizing internet in Indonesia are :

1.   Government of Indonesia should block porn movies

2.   Government of Indonesia should be aware of prostitution by using internet access

3.   Government of Indonesia should be aware of game online. It can addict our children  

       and make them lazy to study etc.

4.   Make a students addicted to internet

5.   Cyber crime