Technology Integration and SkELL: A Novelty in English Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Abstract

The development of technology and its web-applicative tools in reference a variety of fields of contemporary interest, has flourished even the horizons of education. Due to the necessity of the rapid growth of Technology, its integration was considered as a solution to the covid-19 pandemic worldwide situation that caught humanity unskilled on such frequent and easy-to-follow use of ‘learning by doing’ when dealing with knowledge. On purpose, the present study introduces the implementation of SkELL (Sketch Engine for Language Learning) in English Foreign Language (EFL) learning and teaching as a rich source of free online linguistic data, provided the use of authentic texts (hereby to corpus data). All of these constituents autonomously yield both sides: learners and teachers to learner-learner interaction, learner-teacher interaction. Throughout the exploitation of its various web-applicative tools such as: Word Sketch, Thesaurus, Wordlist, Concordance, and Visualization among a range of others made possible and available EFL learning, and assisted teaching during the hard educational situation. It consequently may serve as a pre-requisite for language practitioners, curriculum designers to facilitate overall EFL teaching and learning process.

Keywords

• Technology integration
• SkELL
• EFL
• Corpus linguistics
• Web-applicative tools.

References

1. Cyfeku, J. (2022). Technology integration and SkELL: A novelty in English foreign language teaching and learning. The Eurasia Proceedings of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (EPSTEM) 19, 120-131.