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INTRODUCTION Technology is transforming education. Teachers have access to more information, more ways to interact and collaborate, and more approaches to instruction than ever before. Technology can enable teachers to accommodate a variety of orientations to learning, track student progress, remediate struggling students, and challenge advanced learners. Traditional barriers no longer restrain teachers from meeting the needs of every child. Children are also reaping the benefits of the digital explosion. Combine the boom in instructional technology and the constructivist/socio-constructivist reform, and you have a potent mixture. Through this alchemy we can see an increasing number of ESL teachers who use technology in constructivist ways. The emerging technologies of computers and multimedia provide opportunities for even more learning experiences for ESL students. Word processing, e-mail, computer software, the Internet, and the World Wide Web are all sources of more and different learning activities. The interactive nature of multimedia provides new ways to enhance the ESL learning experience. Teachers use multimedia with ESL students for a variety of reasons. The text, graphics, video, and audio encourage immersion