Reading Post #4

Communication and collaboration are related to one another in that here collaboration is thought of as a process in which learners interact socially to create shared understanding, which is what communication means. This defenition is aligned with TESOL and NETS standards. Students can benefit by interacting socially in many ways, such as by solving, receiving incomprehensible input, transfering info., gaining control of a situation, ans by using language appropriately as well as creatively.Teachers need to allow the students opportunity to successfully and actively interact with each other by assigning group work per se. Group work must be guided and well structured. Computers cannot provide social interaction, but they expand communication. It's important to remember here to develop an assignment based on the goalsof the curriculum and not based on the technology tools. I love the idea of the Reading Circles assignment. I don't remember using technology to learn English when I was in ESL classes. We are so lucky to have such useful tools now to facilitate language learning.