Knowing Me

hi,it's Lara.
Tape-players accompanied me in middle school days when learning English. I can recall the time when we did listening exercises in class, we had to wait for several minutes for the teacher to play back the tape in order to listen again. To find a certain part in a tape was quite time-consuming and irritating. When doing the exams, English teachers need to carry the tape-player to each classroom successively to play the listening part of the test.
When in university, multi-media and computer were mostly used in class, which provided both sound and pictures. In the listening course, we don't need to wait for minutes to listen again. Each class can do the listening test at the same time. Besides, we can listen to BBC, VOA and other English programs online and even chat with native-speaker on the net.
As I could say, the progress of technology utilized in language learning and teaching well manifests the development of Chinese society. After graduating from Nanjing Normal University, I've been teaching in a college for three years. We are encouraged to utilize multimedia in class. I often use ppt as it is more comfortable to teach with it. Multimedia is used to play listening practice and movies as well.
As we know, learning a second language is not that easy as learning the mother tongue. Our brain is critical in language learning and I'm wondering which technology is most effective to help the brain to process language learning or which software or programs can serve better in learning a foreign language. From this course, I hope to clear these wonders and besides know more technologies, I am more willing to know how to utilize those technologies in future language teaching.