Essential skills in call class: enhancing searching and language skills
Introduction: In the quest of making learning more relevant in the contemporary era of information and communication technology, the Internet is considered a valuable resource to both language teachers and learners (Singhal, 1997). With the World Wide Web (WWW), learners of many languages have...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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IIUM Press and IPPTN
2009
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/5764/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5764/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5764/1/Essential_Skills_in_CALL_Class_-_Enhancing_Searching_and_Language_Skills.pdf |
| Summary: | Introduction:
In the quest of making learning more relevant in the contemporary
era of information and communication technology, the Internet is
considered a valuable resource to both language teachers and learners
(Singhal, 1997). With the World Wide Web (WWW), learners of many
languages have access to an unprecedented amount of authentic target language
information (Warschauer, 1998; Chun and Plass, 2000). The
Internet offers a great deal of supplemental language activities for the
teachers to select from and later these activities provide the students
with additional practices in a specific area of language learning (Chafe,
1999). The content of the Internet is generally very current and the
language used to present it is real and authentic (Brown, 1999). Moreover,
the use of the Internet should be endorsed as a tool to be incorporated
into classroom activity as it stimulates active learning where the students'
language skills and their language learning experience would be
enhanced (Wetzel and Chisholm, 1998). The activities can be equally
enjoyed by both advanced and slow learners. |
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