After
reading the two articles required for this week, “Using the Internet in ESL
writing Instruction” and “Using Internet-Based Children’s Literature to Teach
EFL”, I learned significant things about teaching writing and reading skills
using the Internet.
The first
article presents the Internet as a useful tool for teaching writing. Also, the
article proposed three basic elements to help to teach writing: Web pages,
e-mail connection and creating class websites, these elements have received a
lot of attention from CALL researchers in the past. This article help me to
understand how to use technology in order to practice writing skills, which in
my opinion in one of the most challenging skills to achieve for second language
learners. It mentions that is a good option that students practice genres of
writing such as essays, letters, description, etc., in order to enhance their
writing skills in a good way.
The second
article explains how the Internet is useful at the time to teach reading skills
because Internet has helped to overcome problems of access and expense. As we know,
with the Internet we have a lot of resources, and it is easy to have access to
websites where we can find interesting articles for our students. If we want
that our students read a book, we can look for a website when we can download
the book in a PDF File in order to provide with the students with the material
required for the class.
As a
conclusion, with the Internet we have a lot of sources to enhance writing and
reading skills in our students and it is our responsibility take advantage of
these resources.
Hello Adonay, I liked how you explained the idea of including different technological resources within the classroom to help students develop their skills. I also want to add that to practice reading and writing, internet is very useful, because with only submitting a job online, you must first read the material that teachers provide and the information that students do themselves. Immediately after the reading is what writing is the fact that they keyed in the tasks, while developing their ability to think and give their own opinion on the development of each work submitted. For this reason I agree with your comment.
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