Technology Literacy in ELT within the Indonesian Context

 

 

Antonius Suratno

 

 

Technology has been part of our day-to-day life, not to mention in the English Language Teaching context in Indonesia. In spite of the slow response to the offer of technology, ELT in Indonesia should realise that it is now already time to disseminate literacy technology in ELT. This is mainly because there is a lot of potential role that it can play to help make a change in the current practice of language teaching. Thus, in such a technological advancement, it becomes unlikely for the ELT to isolate or alienate itself from the current and future innovations of technology. This paper is trying to define what literacy is supposed to mean, to show why technological literacy is a must, how it can be disseminated and how to encourage anyone committed to the world of ELT to be more  well aware of the need to systematically  introduce a technological literacy in ELT and  to slowly keep abreast of it in the daily practice of teaching and learning English.

 

 

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Surattno, A. (2005, September). Technology literacy inELT within the Indonesian context. Paper presented at 1^st International Seminar on Literacy Education in Developing Countries, Semarang, Indonesia.

 

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