Technology cannot substitute for a good language teacher but it can supplement and facilitate our teaching.
Our responsibility is to help students communicate and realize that they are part of the "global village."
In addition, the roles of the teacher and learner will change. The teachers have to act as teachers, facilitators, mentors, as well as assessors and evaluators, whereas the students have to be learners, collaborators, problem solvers, thinkers, as well as assessors and evaluators. Different methods using IT such as Intranet pedagogy and Internet pedagogy like web-based teaching, distance education and virtual classrooms may be adopted when there is a lack of language teachers. (See Prapphal 1997, 1998, and 2001 for more details.)