The World Wide Web can provide
students with access to an enormous range of genuine English. This does not,
however, imply immediate benefits for a language learner. They have to find
suitable sites, material and use it in a manner that help their studies.
This website is designed to help with these problems. The site
provides access to sites, tasks and TIPS which help students explore genuine
English both at a semantic (global meaning) and syntactic (more language
centred) level.
To further aid students in
their exploration sites and tasks have been chosen which often supply
information through a variety of media, text, hypertext, video, audio, images
etc. Through the TIPS pages students are encouraged to explore what each of
this media can offer in terms of aiding overall understanding and more minute
analysis along with how they can be used together to aid overall language
work.
There are two parts to the website, tasks centered around topics from
their course book and more freer activities. In class, you may wish to begin
with the former and thus incorporate computer based work into normal class
activities. The overall effect should provie ample scope for speaking, writing,
listening, reading and general language practice. The freer section may be
experimented with when students are more familiar with the site and how to
manipulate the range of media and options the WWW provides. You may wish to
touch upon it in class and encourage use at home.
When dealing
with these tasks in class here are some general TIPS, although you may wish to
add your own via email so this site continues to grow through teaher's and
student's experience: email you
comments
 Be patient as
students get used to manipulating the new media.
Pre and post
computer based activities will provide opportunities for feedback, production
etc.
You may need to help focus them on language points found in a text,
video etc.
You need the balance the needs of keeping them on
task and allowing them the freedom to develop explore their own individual
needs.
Encourage use of the TIPS pages so that students develop the skills
necessary to take full advantage of these media and their
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Here are links to all
the TIPS pages if you want to explore some techniques of using the different
media available through the WWW further.
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