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Summary
Chapter 2 WORD PROCESSORS IN THE CLASSROOM

Using words processors is very helpful for teachers and learners. It makes teacher’s works easier and help learner in learning activity. Teachers can use words processor for making worksheet and material for learners. Teachers can also correct, edit and provide feedback on their learners. Teachers can insert images and link into their worksheet and create form, like making choice, text entry fields where your learners can type text and button to select one of set of choices. In your form you can add text box, check box and drop down menu. Beside that, teacher can use trackcahnges to provide feedback on learner’s written work; teacher can give comment, suggestion or correction. Other windows program that teacher an use is markin for marking up grammar mistakes, spelling errors, word order, and other common errors in learner’s work.
For learners, words processors program can be used for simple task like creative writing, saving, and storing document. The advantage of using words processors in writing is the ability to model texts, share texts, produces them collaboratively and engages in peer and teacher editing on a more interactive level. Words processors program can be a good tool for practicing language. The ability to move words and chunks of text around the page easily can guide learners towards a deeper understanding of how the language works. Activity that can teacher do to teach the learners dictation (the learners should type while they listen, noticing activity, and collaborative writing (where as story is started by one learners or pair and then passed to subsequent pairs of learners who add the story. One final use of words processors program is doing presentations. Specific pieces of works can easily be transferred from word processed format to a presentation format like Microsoft PowerPoint for public presentation or added as files to student’s web pages or blogs.
Start using words processors with simple activities because we need to introduce it to learner first, if they are not used to doing activities based computer.