How would English language teachers use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?

 Now a day, technologies are an important part of the new generations’ life. They used technology most of their days and they cannot get along without it. Regarding to Saudi Arabia schools most of our teachers were not used technology such as blogs, wikis and delicious in Saudi EFL context but if they use they will make differences in English language learning. Most of our teachers in Saudi Arabia do not see the importance of using technology in teaching English as a foreign language. Many teachers disregard the importance of using technology in teaching to those students. They did not realize that today's students are different from old generations’ students or from 40 years old age. So, teaching method should be change and traditional way of teaching should be change too. In additional, teachers should enhance the important of technology by using it with their student. Definitely, students learning will develop because they will feel that learning is relevant to their real life. Moreover, students’ education will be more interesting and enjoyable.

•          Teachers can use blog to encourage students’ skills. For example, teacher gives them an activity such as reading an artical and writes the meaning of underline words on the texts. In this activity teacher will check students understanding of the texts and their writing skills at the same time. Also, she can give them a story and ask them to write a conclusion of that story. This will test their writing skill. Also, if the students faced any difficulty in English language, they can use blog in order to share it with others and learn it. For example, most of the students have a problem in making perfect tenses. In this case, teachers can use blog to help student to learn how to use this tense correctly. She could ask them to write some sentences by using perfect tense. Then, she will correct it to them and give them her feedback. In addition, in blog students can comment on their friends’ blog to develop their writing skills.

•           Wiki is an amazing source for sharing information with other people. Teachers can give their student an activity or assignment that requires the student to create their own Wiki and to fill it with the information that related to their course. For example, if the courses about Phonetic and Phonology, the students would have to seek out about information that related to this course and fill the information on their Wiki. This searching will enhance students’ knowledge about their course because they read a lot of the material and seek out for the information by their own. Moreover Students can put a picture in their personal profile and can edit information or link easily. Wiki is a helpful web site for a large class student. It’s easy to use for both, the teacher and students.
  
  
  
  

• Using Delicious in language classroom could help student to develop their foreign language skills.  For example, the teacher could ask the students to create a delicious a count, fill it with links that could lead to various web sites or links. Teacher could ask the students to put labels or key words in order to facilitation the searching process for the links.