Microsoap is Correct? by Claudio V. Tabotabo, MA (November, 2006)

In the world where people are looking at computerization, learning the second language became a less priority matter. Almost everyone is not bothered to forget language acquisition as long as he is part of computer development. A proven fact is that young people spent every minute of their lives with their last peso in the computer cafes than learning a single word in the classroom or library. Teachers testify poor language performance of students because of computer.

Truth cannot be declared rightly that computer make people dull. But with computer amusements the interest of the students to reading books such as novels, biographies, histories and others is diverted to other direction. While novels gather dust in the bookshelves, computer cafes are swarmed with young people. But see the difference between a reader of books and a computer buff? Listen to what you hear; in the library you will only hear footfalls and silent shuffling of pages, while in the computer cafes you will hear very loud baffle of words without meaning.

Clothed with a misconception that computer is a symbol of modernization, young people are misled to believe that being adept in computer is something that made them different from others, that a person who is good in computer belongs to the new generation.

Young minds do not know that the functions of computer to the life of man today, are not different to the functions of a spear to the life of the pre-historic man. It is only a rudiment to the tools of man to acquire existence. It helps life easy but it is not life, so that man's endeavor should not end in computerization. The situation shows demarcation between computer and the learning of the students. This paper claims as it had been claimed in the past that computers had to do something with the plummeting proficiency of the students.

But blaming the computers for the failings of the students in school is not the argument of this paper. Instead this study endeavors in presenting an idea on making computers as an instrument to upgrade students' proficiency level in thinking.