Reading Prompt #3

The pedagogical divide that separates instruction between ELL and affluent learners has to do with the teacher's expectations of the students. There is a tendency for teachers to teach lower level skills to ELL or lower-income learners. I don't understand why. Every learner needs to be taught with the assumption that they potential and ability to learn. The learning style or presentation is what needs to be adjusted accordingly in order for our leraners to achieve the three frameworks described in this chapter, which are engagement, generativity, and control. Just as we are learning in this class, technology is merely a tool to language teaching. It is the same for language learning in the classroom. Egbert explains the different ways in which computers can assist listening and speaking. The most important is that they are able to interact socially and receive input from other peers, I think. They have a wider audience too. Learners can speak around, through, as well as with the computer. Interactivity is the key here.