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Teaching English as a Second Language: Improving Digital Literacy Skills

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English language teachers need to work and act to change efficaciously and call for current ways of teaching. Empowering teachers’ professional knowledge helps them to understand contemporary educational practices and policies that are required for education. COVID-19 pandemic forcefully amended traditional learning environments to online teaching. The study investigates Information Communication Technology (ICT) as an alternative to traditional classrooms. The findings are significant that knowledge, interactions, and communities are pertinent and steered widely by innovations in portable computers and nominal price of information technology. Teaching methods may include classroom blogs, wikis, vlogs, glogster, podcasts, etc., transforming the personality of an individual connecting globally that are typically of the students’ area of academics. The results suggest that understanding and acquiring English language become an active learning skill. It leads to progress, critical for a nation to build a skilled workforce, and also to help people improve their livelihoods as the country grows economically.

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  1. Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    S. Rajeswari

  2. CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    E. Madhavi

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  3. CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India

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Rajeswari, S., Madhavi, E. (2023). Teaching English as a Second Language: Improving Digital Literacy Skills. In: Kumar, A., Ghinea, G., Merugu, S., Hashimoto, T. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive and Intelligent Computing. Cognitive Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2358-6_1

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