Topic : It is likely that the Technological advances will replace language teachers soon. Do you agree or disagree?

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Topic : It is likely that the technological advances will replace language
teachers soon. Do you agree or disagree?





Technology is changing the way people learn. It is rarely to find a
language class that doesn’t use some form of technology. Also, in recent
years, technology plays an important role in supporting and enhancing
language learning and the role of the teacher is to present information. Some
people concern that technological advances will replace language teachers
soon. In my opinion, I don’t agree with that in order to use technology
effectively, it needs a teacher who manages class and interacts with students.
Technology helps teacher rather than removed them because the presence of
teacher is indispensable and some common troubles about financial and the
using way usually occurs.

Firstly, technology plays a role in classroom but it can’t play a
determining role. Technology can provide all the information they have,
without considering that the student understands it or not . No technology
can understand student’s problems and difficulties. Teacher is a person who
supervises students and makes them learn efficiency as a facilitator. For
instance, we download some materials for TOEIC but we don’t which one to
start. Teacher plays a significant part to guide our study and they can tell us
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where begin with, what we should do. Teachers give us the direction to work
in team or individual and solve some hard questions in language class
directly. Furthermore, technology is a tool that can be used by teacher, it
can’t motivate student as teacher. According to Molteno (2013), “well
trained teachers are still need to adjust the lesson to learner needs and
provide more comprehensive feedback to students, give them a reason or
intentive to study - a factor that is essential to learning”. Students can learn
from language online but teachers use body language and can explain things
easier than technology can. Also, second language learners’ learning
situations are various and ever changing. Learning is about trying , making
mistakes and having someone to guide when losing the way and making
inspiration. The teacher will create enthusiasm and passion for students.
Pamela Wright (2013) showed that “teachers are role models creating trust
and inspiring students in an environment where learning occurs-technology
alone can not offer these skill ”. Shortly, the interaction between language
teachers and students are the core of teaching process ; technology has
dramtically changed the role of the teach but it will not replace teachers.

Secondly, in case technology become a new basic requirement, it has
many trouble about purchase price and how to use it. Learners have to have
any thing involves the technology which support to studying language . For
example, in order to take part in an online English course , they have at least
a smatphone, an ipad, a computer or an cassette that connect to Internet.
They need to listen tasks or foreign songs, speak foreign language to other
leaners, write letter or reading comprehesion, all in technology. It’s
difficulty that every learner have it because many people don’t have the
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financial ability to buy, especially low-income students usually cannot
afford. It will cause unfair educational conditions for those poor schools and
students .The hight cost for using language solfware or join in an online
course also fills psychological concerns of leaners. Besides, when a
traditional class with teachers is changed, it takes a long process for
students to have a training in the use of technology. “Learner needs a basic
technology knowledge before applying technology to assist second language
learning” (Cheng-Chieh Lai, William Allan Kritsonis, 2006) . Previously,
students are familiar with using textbook, blackboard, models and write an
essay in the paper. But now if technology is prominent, learners have to be
trained to know how to write an email or an essay online, how to use a
complex solfware about foreign language. It focuses on studying technology
more than language. Consequently, it has many proplem with learners when
technological advances is decided to remove language teachers. Teacher is
still a reasonable choice for all learners.

There are some certainly a group of people who suppose that
technology should replace language teacher because of convinient and
usefullness. However, technology is made by human being, it is still
imperfect. According to Cheng-Chieh Lai and William Allan Kritsonis,
“current technology mainly deals with reading, listening, and writing skills.
Even though some speaking programs have been developed recently, their
functions are still limited”. It should be able to diagnose a student’s
problems with pronunciation, syntax, or usage by the tacher. In other words,
technologies are not yet intelligent enough to be truly interactive . “Due to
the limitations of computer’s artificial intelligence, computer technology is
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unable to deal with learners’unexpected learning problems and response to

learners’ question immediately as teachers do” (Mark Warschauer and Carla
Meskill, 2005). People still need to put effort in developing and improving
computer technology in order to assist second language learners. To sum up,
technology in education get plenty of utility but it does not equate to the
importance of teaching and learning language.

In conclusion, all the application of technological advances become a
new trend in recently language learning instructions, but technology still has
its limitation and weaknesses. Learning foreign language process has many
tricky problem which can make students dispiriting and undone. With some
game or some funny program, it is not enough motivate and inspire for
learners. The language teachers will encourage students when they struggle,
and inspire them to set and reach for their goals. The technology with a
metallic brain and heart can never feel sympathetic towards a student
problem. However, a teacher is always there to solve our problems and
always extends a hand of advice. So yes, technology advances are going to
play a critical role in the future of education. But not as big role as that of a
teacher.



Works Cited
Cheng-Chieh Lai, William Allan Kritsonis. (2006). The Advantages and
Disadvantages of Computer. NATIONATIONAL JOURNAL FOR
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Mark Warschauer and Carla Meskill. (2005). Technology and Second

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Moteno. (2013, may 13). WHY TECHNOLOGY CANNOT REPLACE
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Wright, P. (2013, june 20). Why new technologies could never replace great
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