Juan Felipe Quevedo

Stephanía González

Santiago Martan

Diana Ramírez

Today we live in a world where the paceprogress and patterns of life are being led bytechnology. Technology that through time hasbeen implemented within classes in schoolsand universities bringing several benefits. Someclear example are the benefits in the Englishclasses. First, technology serves as to way tosupport material allowing the class to be moredidactic and students interact with each otherand with the teacher; this can be achieved byallowing the implementation of video, soundand games that turn the class more fun for allstudents. A second benefit that theimplementation of technology brings in Englishclasses is the opportunities for communicationamong students. That means the easiness topractice what they have learned. An exampleis the implementation of Skype, allowing thestudent to learn English and talk with peoplewho speak English and practice and improvetheir language and communication. Finally,students find it more interesting to interact withtechnology, because they were born in atechnological era, the class is more appealingto students, providing to them a desire to learnand practice the language.

WRITTEN BY: STEPHANÍA GONZÁLEZ PELÁEZ.

CORRECTED: ANNIE BILLINGS AND CHRISTINA SHIELDS.

Nowadays many people in

the world have to need to

have a smartphone,

because the society

demands it for the

application and the use of

them.

WRITTEN BY: DIANA RAMÍREZ.

CORRECTED: DANIEL O’BRIEN.

JF: Juan Felipe Quevedo

RG: Roger Simpson

JF: Hi, I'm here with Roger Simpson and I'm gonna make the interview, so the first question is: how often do you have online sessions via skype?

RG: Good morning to you, ok, in my case no many we only have 3 sessions in the semester, because the University of Miami is very busy and they don't have more time to give us.

JF: Do your students enjoy the use of online sessions via skype in their classes?

RG: yeah, they have a good time, they have an interesting conversations, they help the American students with the Spanish and the American students help them with their English, it's a good experience.

JF: Why is important to take the skype sessions?

RG: Is important for several reasons, number one is that change the atmosphere of the classroom, sometimes stay in the classroom all the time could be boring, and it's good to get out of the classroom, bring the students make contact with a different culture, give some opportunity to speak english to native speakers.

In English ll course, we have online sessions via skype with students of USA. These sessions are very good to improve our English. I interviewed the teacher Roger Simpson.

JF: What are the greatest benefits you see on your students?

RG: Well, we have a much, better understanding of American culture, sometimes they actually maintain a relationship with the students in states, by Facebook or e-mail something like that and they improve their English.

JF: Do you think online sessions via skype are a good way to learn English?

RG: Not learn English, but we practice English, practice more than all.

JF: How do your students get prepared for their online sessions?

RG: ok, some days before he session I’m in contact with their professor in my case in Miami, and she sends me a list of the topics of their students to study, and need to discouse with Colombian students here, and I send the list of the things that I need my students to practice in English, so, we do prepared the sessions depending on the requirements of the course of Spanish of Miami, and my requirements here for my course in English.

JF: And the last one is: have you had any problem during your sessions?

RG: Ok, the problems will we have, I gess is two problems, sometimes the connections fails but they do comeback, we restart it, and success in this program depends on all of students tha they increase it for every session.

E-comunication hasbeen acepted in aninternational level.These is because it is afast comunication inthe writting form andthe easyRecognicement. The E-comunication has beenconvert in an universallanguage, because it isused communobservations in differentcultures, in form that itaplies number andsigns.

Some examples of the E comunication are:

bcs(because)

ILY( I luve you)

thx ( thank you)

IMU(I miss you)