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1. Technology Aided Language Learning should be clubbed with Classroom Activities Promoting Simple Useful Language Environment. The teacher-learners should be helped to develop the skills to teach with and without technology. The teacher-learners should be able to teach effectively even in places wherein the physical infrastructure is inadequate for Technology Aided Language Learning. They should be made aware of the potentials of technology and ways of adjusting their teaching to a variety of situations. They should learn to adapt their lesson plan with different levels of infrastructure like, only one computer for the teacher, one computer for the teacher and just one more for the students, a few computers among 50 students, a full fledged computer lab with internet facilities and audio visual rooms equipped with an LCD projector and every student having a PC to work on.

2. Once the teacher-learners get over the anxiety of using technology, they begin to enjoy working on the project. Initially the teacher should be ready to face problems of lack of confidence on the part of some teacher-learners. The teacher should be able to act as a counsellor. In cases where the teacher might also have this ‘techno-anxiety’ the situation is more difficult to handle. Teachers working as a team and helping each other would be greatly helpful in overcoming this problem.

3. At the beginning of the project the details of Timeline should be worked out. Once the teacher-learners get hooked to computers, the problem of scheduling time and helping them keep deadlines needs to be faced. In this study the ones who were nervous about touching the keyboard got hooked faster than others. Many of the teacher-learners got so involved in producing multimedia presentations that till the last minute they did not feel that their presentations were good enough to be submitted. They felt they could work on it some more and make it better. Finally they had to be told that their portfolios will not be accepted beyond the deadline. So teachers should work out the plan in detail and time management is crucial to the success of  the project.

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