Internet in Language Class

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One of the most essential pedagogicalprinciples of language teaching is one thatemphasizes the study of language in acultural context.

Understanding the culture of the target

language enhances understanding of thelanguage. To this end, the Internet is avaluable resource to both language teachersand learners.


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The Internet also serves asa medium for experiencingand presenting creativeworks. While students can

peruse the information onthe Net, they can also useit as a platform for theirown work such as essays,

poetry, or stories.


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The many sides that issues may be

presented from on the Web offer children a

very diverse look at a subject. As opposed

to looking at the collection of one author,

or one book on a subject.


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Children's attention spanmay last longer with newtechnological tools thanwith older teaching aides.


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The multiplicity in Internet services offersa chance for children of different talents to

all develop a certain niche in the use of themedium.The many differences between servicesmeans that one may not become familiarwith all kinds of resources right away.However, if there is a class where differentstudents use different resources,

eventually each individual may develop anarea of expertise which can then be sharedwith the wider group.


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Work on computers can

allow for bothindependent projects andcollaborativeundertakings.

This means that the samemedium allows fordeepening individualskills as well as enhancinggroup dynamics skills.


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Searching the Web requires logic skills. Once

information has been obtained, the resultsmust be reviewed which requires scanning,discarding, and evaluative judgment on part ofthe learner.

The information must be put together to make

a complete and coherent whole which entailsthe synthesis process.


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The computer-mediated

communication toolsallow students frequentand timely communicationwith children from around

the world, and also withtheir teachers forinformation about classassignments or any school

related issues.


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Lastly, the Internet provides supplementallanguage activities which can provide students

with additional practice in specific areas oflanguage learning.

These include reading tests and comprehensionquestions, grammar exercises, pronunciation

exercises possible through the availablemultimedia capabilities, cloze tests, vocabularyexercises, and so forth. Students can search the

Web for such sites, or teachers may recommend

specific sites on the Web.


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Disadvantages


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First problem is that the internet is not alwaysaccessible by all learners and teachers though

English as a second language all over the world istaught widely.

For example, some values on the internet

accessibility of overall population are 75.6% inSweden, 61.4% in Holland, 68.7% in Japan, 14.2%in Turkey, 11.1% in Russia, 10.9% in Thailand,6.6% in Saudi Arabia and 4.5% in Kenya.

To sum up, when the accessibility of overallpopulation is considered, it is possible to say thatthe inequity issues in internet accessibility arediscouraging for both language teachers and

students in educational settings


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Lack of training andfamiliarity on part of theteachers can make itdifficult to implement the

Internet in the languageclassroom.


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Though it is a fact that the internet improvescommunicational and language skills, thesignificant point is that teachers and learnersare not sometimes aware of why, how, whomand where they teach and learn.


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Although a mass of materials in

the internet can be found,integration of the materials intosecond language curriculum is apotential difficulty


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Easy access to resources concerning just about anytopic may lead children to materials that would

otherwise not be made available to them.


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Anyone with access to it can put information up on it

- it is inevitable that there is room for incorrect

information to also make its way onto the network.


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Some controversial sites include those that

represent and advocate ideas deemed

dangerous by the majority of the public.


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Some Web services may be harmful because of the

ways in which they offer students alternatives to doing

their work. There are numerous sites on the Web that

offer term papers and book reports for sale, or even for

free.


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Some arguments may beraised concerning the time

Internet activities takeaway from moretraditional means ofinformation retrieval suchas reading a book.


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Internet in Language Class