Nowadays, we know that technology takes place as an essential tool in education. The most common used for that are mobile phones. Phones are social tools that facilitate authentic and relevant communication and collaboration among students. Using cellphones either for teaching and learning a second language have many benefits, as students find them easier to use than a computer, why?, because they can easily carry their cell phones wherever they go, and they can do many activities in them, like, reading books on-line, sending documents or messages to teachers by email or vice versa.
Besides, before doing an activity where our students have to use their cell phone we have to be sure of the goal we want to achieve and what skills we are going to base. Moreover, we need to take into a count the resources (cellphones) we have available and if they have the required capacities. In the article were many ideas to use cell phones in classes that we as teachers can apply, like: use the Notes feature to collect everyday language because most mobile phones have this capacity, and students will be able to use this features to take notes on the English. They can share their notes with the class in general. Another idea, is the use of Text Messaging feature to reinforce vocabulary learning. This is basically that students will take notes about the vocabulary covered in class and send it by text messages to increase the chances that students will remember them.
However, using mobile phones inside the classroom bring many problems, such as the lack of phones, why? because not all students will have a phone, let is imagine that we are teachers of the countryside, obviously, there will be more students that will not have computers that those who do, so we must ask them to share their devices. Also, the noise and disruption in class is another problem. Our students can be in oral presentations, reading in silent, doing exams, etc, and one of their phones ring, evidently, the noise will interrupt the concentration of the students, or in an oversight of the teacher they will start chatting.
