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What is T.E.L.L? (TELL) or Technology-enhanced language learning deals with the impact of technology on teaching and learning a second langauage also called the L2. Technology-enhanced language learning refers to the use of the computer as a technological innovation to display multimedia as a means of complementing a teaching method langauge teachers. What's important to note is that TELL is not a teaching method but rather an approach that can be used alongside a teaching method to help teach. TELL is very supportive of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). CMC has been researched and supported as being very useful to helping students speak and write in a foreign language which is important to teaching process using TELL. "The process can be described as effectively bridiging the gap between written and oral expression for the linguistically limited student whose oral skills are not adequate to allow for full expression of ideas in the target language. By slowing down th eprocess of communication and allowin the students to reflect and compose a message (similar to an "utterance"), electronic interaction in the classroom encourages student use of the target language." (Bush and Terry 1997, 167)

What is T.E.L.L? (TELL) or Technology-enhanced language learning deals with the impact of technology on teaching and learning a second langauage also called the L2. Technology-enhanced language learning refers to the use of the computer as a technological innovation to display multimedia as a means of complementing a teaching method langauge teachers. What's important to note is that TELL is not a teaching method but rather an approach that can be used alongside a teaching method to help teach. TELL is very supportive of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). CMC has been researched and supported as being very useful to helping students speak and write in a foreign language which is important to teaching process using TELL. "The process can be described as effectively bridiging the gap between written and oral expression for the linguistically limited student whose oral skills are not adequate to allow for full expression of ideas in the target language. By slowing down th eprocess of communication and allowin the students to reflect and compose a message (similar to an "utterance"), electronic interaction in the classroom encourages student use of the target language." (Bush and Terry 1997, 167)