4th Journal of TLL:

Good news ...  good news...

21st century forces us to be digital native person. It means that we have to master the technologies around us, for example mobile phone, computer, and or internet. The advancement of technology is also inseparable from language learning. In this journal, we will talk about how to utilize the technology into listening and speaking practice. The background why I write this journal is I got this topic from my last meeting in TLL (Technology Language Learning) class.

When I was in senior high school, my teacher had difficulties to provide us some variation in listening practice skills. He gave us listening skills just from a cassette which played by the tape. Of course we felt bored because we learned with same method all the time. Not just that, sometime the tape recorder or cassette used was not in a good condition. The impact was not really effective to develop our listening skills.

But, do not worry because along with the advancement of technology, especially internet, we can find many methods of listening through internet nowadays. Even, you can learn independently. Well, if you are looking for the sites that can help you to improve your listening skills, click here to find the listening sites.

Next is about speaking activities that helped by technology. Back to school context. I want to ask to you, what do you do when you have speaking practice? Yups, I know if you will answer ‘doing a conversation with your friends’... :)

You know guys; you can also find the sites from internet to practice speaking. This is some of ‘thousand’ sites that you can take the benefit:

Hopefully, this journal can help you to improve your English. Through online learning like this, you can get the benefit that cannot get from offline learning. The benefits that you can get from online learning are you have opportunity to practice your English with native and you also have opportunity to learn the culture behind English. It’s joyful, what are you waiting for? :)