Week 6: The media as support in teaching speaking and listening skills.

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When teachers prepare a lesson for an specific skill, it can be difficult if they do not have the right tools to prepare it and if they do not have that much knowledge about how to teach a new language.

However, nowadays there exist many ways to prepare a class with different fun activities for a specific skill that can be meaningful and funny for students. Also, those activities can be very useful for students because they can improve their learning process.

Technology provides many tools where teachers can find a lot of necessary resources that they can use in their classes. There are also many new applications that can help teachers and students alike in the teaching-learning process. It is the teacher's duty to provide students with the insight of what can be used to improve the learning skills in which they are deficient.

Using technology, teachers can guide students to get the right tools they need to improve their language skills. Based on the article, there are several applications of CALL in the development of speaking skills that foster and motivates students to self-study. Besides, by using media to develop learning activities based on radio programs, television shows, newspapers, videos, and music, teachers will have a better interaction with the students and the students will be motivated to learn.