Week 7: Using Internet - Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL.
Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
INTERNET-BASED READING AND WRITING LEARNING STRATEGIES.
María José López Aguirre
Week 7: Using Internet - Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL.
Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction.
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The articles from this week give essential information about using Internet to enhance reading and listening skills. The first journal provides information about implementing Internet resources to develop the reading skill of young learners. It is important to acknowledge that young students become willing to acquire new knowledge by fostering an autonomous literature. Students are more interest in learning by being exposed to the vocabulary in a specific context in a reading rather than memorizing and looking for the meanings in dictionaries. Internet provides potential resources for reading materials that are accessible to students, and helps them to be independent readers by letting them select the materials they prefer, and practicing outside the classroom. Moreover, there are many tasks teachers can give to students in order to stablish specific purposes for the readings. The second article remarks the importance of applying Internet-based activities to improve the writing of L2 learners. Something that caught my attention were the amazing writing genres that serve authentic communicative purposes, such as creating a class website, e-mail connection, and web pages. Furthermore, students have the chance to work in a collaborative learning environment by acting in an electronic community in which they can interact, share files and offer peer feedback among them. What surprised me in this article was that teachers should analyze how they are going to integrate on-line activities into the syllabus in a connected way, and being aware of their students’ interest and necessities is crucial. So, when appealing to their style they are willing to create, analyze, and produce information and ideas more easily and efficiently. To conclude, Web-based networking tools offer excellent opportunities to conduct the improvement of reading and writing skills into ESL learning.
Week 7: Using Internet - Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL.
Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction.
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ReplyDeleteHello! Maria Jose I'm happy to read what you thought about these last articles. Let me tell you that I agree with you when you state that students are more interested in learning by being exposed to the vocabulary in a specific context in a reading rather than memorizing and looking for the meanings in dictionaries. Because I think we as a teacher should create thoughtful students instead of mechanical students. In other words, have our students using their critical thinking rather than giving them the easiest ways to learn. For this reason is good to read how these articles have shown us many ways to handle with this by using internet, and in this way learners can develop writing, reading or any other skill.
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