The use of ICT in the English classroom extends beyond its motivational value to address key outcomes of the syllabus, and allow students to become competent users as well as consumers in English.
Research suggests that incorporating ICT into the English curriculum can:
- improve writing and reading skills
- develop speaking and listening skills
- support collaboration, creativity, independent learning and reflection (Becta,2003a, Becta,2003b, VTC,2003) (cited in Becta 2005)
As an interactive and collaborative medium, ICT allows responding, composing, and publication to be easily shared and offers students the opportunity to explore the language of texts more creatively and develop as speakers, writers and readers for an ever widening range of purposes and audiences. ICT can enable students to:
- access information and respond to a widening range of texts
- organise and present information in a variety of forms
- broaden the range of audiences for their work
- compose a widening range of texts for a broad range of purposes
- compose for real audiences. ICT can support them in their choice of genre for audience and purpose.
- identify key characteristics and features of text
- develop understanding of language and critical literacy (Becta,2006,ICT in the Curriculum)
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