Surely, many times you have heard this sentence "English opens Doors". Of course it is well done that English language has become an essential tool in human life, since it is a key factor for communication in every single aspect, not only for business, economy, or education, but also for communicative purposes opening our horizons to a complete world, with different cultures, people, knowledge, and lifestyles in general.
In the last point, referring to communication with other countries and the chance to know other kinds of people, English language plays one of the most important factors, since through it we are able to keep ourselves in contact worldwide. You can travel around the world just knowing English with the security you will be able to communicate with others in every country. But, what about the fact that not everyone is able to live in another country, do a postgrade in a English speak country, or even make a trip to that country you would like to visit. How can you access to that different culture, and know its different inhabitants? How can we approach to English language if we are in our own country with a different mother tongue? How can English teachers make the English language closer to students with no contact with the real context of this tongue? All these questions have just one answer, trough technology!
Why technology? Easy, due to that technology is the tool to know what surrounds you. Through just a monitor, a mouse, and a keyboard you are able to be in contact with the rest of Earth, either downloading music and videos, or talking people from another country in order to practice English. Being this fact is intrinsic within English language teaching because of is the main mean to put learning in context, since for example talking about a special celebration in England, providing tips to make a good trip, or encouraging university students to do a post grade in Europe.
In Chile, where nowadays knowing English language is even a requirement to get a job, teaching it as foreign language is part of the framework government, pretending to turn Chile in a bilingual country to 2020. Around 700 million people speak English counting who has born talking it and who has learned it, being the language most used around the world in the commercial, musical, technologist, academic, politic, and scientific field, among many others. The 80% of information online, 65% of scientific articles, 60% of radial shows, and 90% of all internet traffic is in English.
Taking in count all of these empirical factors, everybody through technology can have access to English language and to know in this way a different reality which can search on the internet several ways to approach us to a English context, show us the real idiosyncrasy of foreign countries speaking English as a mother tongue. Of course, social networks play also an important role within communication technologies for accessing to English language, since just by a ‘click' you can go online and access to a virtual but at same time real world.
