EXPLORING THE ROLE OF UPDATED TECHNOLOGY IN UNIVERSITY ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

Abstract

 Technology nowadays has become the trend of every aspect of life and  teaching  is not away from the that fad. What Elbert Einstein indicates “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”  ,has been sharply outlined. The adoption  of updated technology represents an important  advance in modern English language teaching methods. The use of technology in an English classroom  is involved with a variety of technical gadgets  like a variety of mobile phones, wireless phone, laptop, tablets, notebooks, pen drives, online dictionary in addition to social media  such as Facebook, Orkut, and Google search. English classes have become a part of the novel trends. They encourage  the English teachers  to investigate  the best appropriate one which optimizes the  class for better learning English. The present term-paper is intended to shed the light on the role undertaken by up-to-date technology in optimizing English classrooms nowadays. The aim of this study is to identify the role updated technology in  language classrooms undertake to nurture and support language learning. This research is a descriptive one where a sample of (90) second year students at the Department of English/ College of  Education /IbnRushd /University of Baghdad are randomly chosen to respond to the questionnaire items which  are  adopted from a previous study to identify the role undertaken by updated technology in language classroom. The students’ responses have been statistically analyzed and rejected positively the null hypothesis to capture the importance of updated technology  in boosting language learning on the students’ part.