Learning Styles and Technology

English is taught as a foreign language in Korea, which means it is taught as one subject in school and used typically only in instructional settings. In this situation, one of the disadvantages in learning English is that it is difficult for Korean students to get as much input as they need.
When a lesson is tailored to student's individual characteristics and abilities, it could make students more interested in learning English.
Thanks to the rapid development in information technology, however, students are able to obtain as much information as they want, especially through the internet. Supporting such kinds of media as text, graphics, video, and audio, internet communication of which the dominating language is English, has tremendous potential as a supporting tool for learning English as a foreign language.
Before we bring these technology into our classroom however, there is one thing that we should consider. Students tend to be discouraged when they are asked to do something in English beyond their current level of competence. Thus, we should begin with things they can do easily. Assigning homework on a web course can be one of them. Completing their assignments through a web course, students can lay the foundation for self-directed English learning. In addition, they can experience various systems for computer-mediated communication such as the world wide web, e-mail, newsgroups, etc.
After I have read technology and multiple intelligences, I think that students' intrapersonal intelligence, linguistic intelligence, musical intelligence, and spatial intelligence have a positive effect to their English achievement. bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, and interpersonal intelligence do not have a positive effect on their English achievement. This indicates that all kinds of multiple intelligences should be thoroughly considered when we design and practice web-based English learning and teaching technology.