Monday, September 30, 2013

Interview with ESL teacher

After interviewing Mrs. Leah Muller, an ESL teacher in Israel, I discovered a new set of challenges that didn’t occur to me before. Mrs. Muller expressed the difficulties of incorporating technology into her lessons since her students not only verbally speak a different language, but technologically as well. For instance, Mrs. Muller’s students don’t have televisions in their homes and some do not even have computers. This presents a unique set of circumstances for this ESL teacher working with kids who have less than the standard technological devices in their homes than in the United States. Mrs. Muller has to really pull at her creative juices when forming her lesson plans to incorporate technology. She ventures to use tape recorders and digital cameras to enhance her lessons, quite different than the technology we are discussing in this semester!

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