POSITIVE EFFECTS OF USING ICTs IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

This article treats and analyzes the positive effects of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), their role and importance in the ambit of education, focusing especially in the positive impact of efficient use and integration of ICTs into teaching foreign languages. This writing analyzes the importance of internet, email and digital platforms in teaching foreign languages. Also, videogames have a special role in teaching foreign languages, since students are prone to better remember lessons provided through electronic games. Other important means and gadgets considered effective in teaching foreign languages are chat, various forums, CD-ROMs, DVDs and video projectors, all serving to effectively provide various sorts of information. ICTs are important because students consider them as sources of information and they feel freely to communicate through them in real time. They are free to talk about any kind of topic with speakers of the foreign language they are learning. Teachers of foreign languages are yielding good results by using ICTs, since they have been aiding them to further improve their work and having more effective classes and better students. In this case, the study has been realized with students of the primary 9-year schools, who have been distributed a questionnaire to collect data regarding the effective use of technology in the classroom. Data obtained in the framework of the survey were analyzed and presented in percentage. Conclusions and some suggestions regarding the positive effects of the use of ICTs in teaching foreign languages will be presented at the end.