Google Alerts in TEFL

Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service for google users. It searches blogs, web pages and news in accordance with users search terms and notifies when it finds the results via email. This app of Google could effectively be used in TEFL context . Students can create alerts that interests them , or they can create alerts related to topic of their homework, course, or they can use it as an authentic way of learning the language by reading the sources that they are interested. As future teachers, we need to be aware that keeping students and ourselves up to date is one of the most important things we must do in this constantly changing technological environment. Apps such as Google Alerts may help us both to inform our students and ourselves with these developments in the technology, language learning and teaching.