An Altercation between a Modernist and Traditionalist on the Issue of Using Technology in Language Teaching

The concept of education in general and teaching and learning in question has undergone many a value addition and deletion mostly because of the changes and demands of the changing society and the adoption of innovative delivery mechanism. The content and the form through which knowledge is communicated have got new shapes in education. Hence the use of technology in the domain of education really betters the learning pace and learning outcomes. At the same time we can not underestimate the classical system of education. The personal touch of teacher for solving the problems of students and the real-time environment can happen only in the case of traditional learning. But language teaching can be done using technology without super shading the human teachers. Technology has opened a new avenue to learn the language and use the language. It is now essential to consider how to teach language effectively. Educational researches in general and language teaching researches in question have to be carried out in future in order to understand the cognitive process of learners in the context of technology and also to understand the possibility of exploiting the capabilities of electronic devices for teaching language.