As an ESL teacher for an after school program I definitely agree that technology supports learning for culturally and linguistically diverse students.
The chapter states the importance of using technology as a way to overcome language barriers. There will come in a time in your teaching career that you will have a student who speaks a language you are completely unfamiliar with. Technology allows for you to translate in minutes. It also allows for you to communicate with parents who may feel uncomfortable trying to communicate out loud.
Technology opens up roads for students to showcase all their talents that they may not have been able to do without the aide for technology.
It also allows for you to assess what your students do and do not know with the use of online quizzes. Majority of the students who do not speak english as a first language are unlikely to volunteer to share out their responses. This is a way to get everyone to share without having to single a student out.
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