Using Google toois to Foster integration of ICT in EFL teaching: a proposal for intervention

摘要

There has been much interest in the last decades in information and communicationtechnology (ICT) and its relevance to education. Research has been growing at a rapidrate on how ICT could be adapted in order to improve the quality of education.Especially, in the area of modern languages, much interest has been put in how tointegrate ICT in EFL teaching.Especial emphasis must be put on the word “integrate”, for integration of ICT is not justusing ICT in the EFL class. The use of computers and other ICT in the class, as long asit is taken as some kind of pastime or simply as a novelty to increase students’motivation is not integration of ICT in EFL. In other words, asking students to write aneasy on the computer instead of on a piece of paper, or telling students to look up wordsin an online dictionary instead of in a normal dictionary, is not an example of ICTintegration. As Domínguez Miguela and Fernández Santiago (2006, p.22) point out, anactivity that is intended to bring together ICT and EFL teaching must be fully integratedin the syllabus design in terms of objectives, content and evaluation. As to how tointegrate ICT in EFL teaching, Domínguez Miguela and Fernández Santiago (2006,p.53) suggest the following.