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    Technological tools for teaching a foreign language
    (2022-05-02) Asencio González, Stephanie Elizabeth; Pleitez Umaña, Antonieta Elizabeth; Villalta Cardoza, Sergio Dimas; Menjívar, Blanca Alicia; Carranza Campos, Miguel Ángel
    The purpose of this work is to appraise the knowledge and skills acquired through the Specialization Course on The Management of Virtual Environments for The Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages. This Specialization was divided into three modules: Online English Language Teaching, Educational Applications for Learning a Foreign Language, and Design of Didactic Materials for Virtual Environments. Throughout the specialization course participants could gather information about the different online platforms and technological tools to be used at the time of teaching classes in an online environment. Participants also learned about the different online resources to better develop the language teaching and learning process in an integrative way by choosing and using the technical resource that better meet the needs of each of the activities to be implemented during the future classes. This Specialization Course has really provided students with knowledge in different platforms such as: Google Classroom, Google Sites, Schoology, Meet, Zoom, among others; platforms that help to the development of classes and that are complemented with other virtual tools according to the need of the activity to develop, technological tools like Padlet, Nearpod, Classroomscreen, Edpuzzle and Powtoon that allow teachers to develop the online live activities in a really attractive, creative and funny way, on the other hand we have technological tools like: Canva, Prezi, Genially Liveworksheet and others that give us the possibility to create different materials to be used in classes. Key words: Virtual Learning Environment ; Learning Management System ; Synchronous ; Asynchronous ; Online learning ; Distance Education ; COVID-19 ; Online Tools for educators