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Using Internet Resources in the Teaching and Learning English
To: Mr. Guo
Foreign Language Department
Zhejiang Radio and Television University
From: Qin Liu Qin
The Student of the Foreign Language Department
Zhejiang Radio and Television University
Date: Dec.23, 2010
Contents
Abstract 4
Keywords 4
Contents 4
I. We Get English Resource from Internet Mainly Through the Following Two Methods 5
1. Using a Search Engine Search for the Right Resources 5
2. Collection the Resources Related to Practical English Website 5
II. The Channels for Access and Distribute to English Teaching and Learning Resources 6
1. Establish Presonal Blog 6
2. Buiding Teaching Website in the Campus 6
III. How the Daily Teaching of English Use of the Internet Resources to Improve
Student’s Listening, Speaking, Readig and Writing Skills 7
1. Listening and Spoken English 7
2. English Reading 7
3. Written English 8
Conclusion 9
References 9
Abstract
English as the language of international communication, there is an extremely important and extensive role, can be said that English has become the world's language. For a long time, whether we teach or learn English there inefficiencies in the learning environment, surrounded by native speakers of English as a symbol system, and became boring, or even because there is no information given to the appropriate experience to become abstract. Many students, after a period of time in school do not like school, and because it is difficult for real and are not easy to consolidate, 45 minutes of English language learning environment are somewhat helpless, as many students who have been admitted to the University said they spent Seventy percent of energy is not used in their professional learning but in the foreign language learning in college. This not only shows the importance of English teaching also shows the difficult nature in learning english, the main reason for our poor English language environment is simply a lack of communication in English language environment, but with the computer and information technology is developing rapidly, Internet distance learning, multimedia courseware has become a new means of teaching. How do the resources provided through the Internet to learn new teaching ideas, new structures of English teaching and learning environment to enhance students learning initiative, has started to become English teachers face new challenges. English teachers can use the Internet with the world and learn about international development trends of English teaching, sharing of new teaching materials and research, and guide students through the Internet to participate in international exchanges and promote language acquisition. English teaching resources for the collection of Internet access, get to know, of course, very important, but how to make them even more meaningful, the paper first discusses what is the internet of English resources, you can search through the search engines the right resources, collection of relevant pratical English website resources, can also be personal blog, through the construction of English teaching English website and organize resources. We should take advantage of these internet resources, improve their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Keywords
English Teaching and Learning, Internet Resources
Contents
The twenty-first century is the information technology, digital and network era, the rapid development of network interconnection, the growing maturity of the modern educational technology to promote our educational philosophy, educational philosophy, teaching methods constantly updated. This requires teachers to actively use the Internet and information-rich teaching resources, to expand student learning and use of English channels to encourage and support students to participate in the development and use of curriculum resources.
Firstly, we should understand what is internet English resources, internet resources that exist on the international Internet of English resources, they generally have "interactive, multimedia, open, free from the constraints of time, the global application of electronic publishing, online resources, a wide range of by learner control, convenient, non-discriminatory learning environment easy, free, cheap and efficient, easy to carry out cooperative learning, and so on. English resources for the network, we can not only access via the Internet can also be released through the Internet in order to achieve to share the resource.
I. We Get English Resource from Internet Mainly Through the Following Two Methods.
1. Using a Search Engine Search for the Right Resources.
Multitude of english resources on the Internet, searching english resources with aimless like a needle in a haystack, to use of search engines can be made multiplier effect. Covering a wide range of easy to use and powerful search engine are www.google.com, www.baidu.com , which Google is the world's largest Internet company, you can search the global Internet resources, including various languages, while Baidu is native of China's largest Internet search company, you can search the whole of the Chinese data. For the use of search engines, we need to know the use of techniques, when used appropriately, just enter a few keywords, anyone who wants information will be brought together from all corners of the world to your computer. However, if the improper operation, the search efficiency will also suffer greatly. Select search keywords on the principle that you first determine the objectives to be achieved in the mind to form a clearer idea that what I was looking for in the end? Then analyze what the information is common, and similar information from other features, the direction from which the concept of the final extract the most representative keywords such information. If this step well, often able to quickly locate what you're looking for, but most of the time you do not need to use other more sophisticated search techniques. For example, JEFC Book IV Unit 6 “It’s a mystery”, when I tautht this lesson, I searched many representative images of several countries on internet, through Baidu entered “the Amazon Forest Monster, the pyramids, the White House, Eiffel, ect.” such keywords to search many vivid pictures with the English, at last the students study intresting improved a lot.
2. Collection the Resources Related to Practical English Website.
Although the search engine has a powerful search function, but the inadequacies of students is: one of the words often found thousands of results and the searcher takes a lot of time screening, identification of it. Furthermore, due to the limited time for students, weak capacity of identify resources, and poor self-control, it easily attracted by irrelevant information. Therefore, usually we first screened and identificated various website resources then recommend to the students the practical website so that students can find information on the point, so it is unnecessary to waste of time. For middle school students, according to online information and our own daily practice,Summed up the following websites more suitable for learning English.
Project Class |
Websites |
Main contents |
Comprehensive Class |
www.englishabc.com,www.englishww.com, www.360abc.com, www.english-plaza.com, www.edunet.com/elt/, www.english-at-home.com |
1, Rich in contents, providing for all kinds of learners of English learning materials; 2, Multifunction, including chat rooms, forums, language to explain, various exercises and so on. |
Listening and Speaking class |
www.crazyenglish.org,www.tingli.com,www.putclub.com,www.historychannel.com/speeches/, http://ting.24en.com |
To listening, speaking based materials, learners can find their favorite material to practice listening comprehension and imitation. |
Media Class
|
www.peopledaily.com.cn,www.xinhuanet.com/english, www.chinadaily.com.cn,www.cri.com.cn, |
Rich, wide range of topics, to meet the reading needs of different hobbyists. |
Dictionary Class |
www.iciba.net, www.sunrain.net, www.m-w.com, www.thesaurus.com |
Offers a variety of English dictionaries, available online, can also be download |
Taste Class |
www.en8848.com,www.script-o-rama.com, www.songtext.net,www.shareware.com, www.dilbert.com |
Available in English novels, songs, films, software, cartoons and other fun learning materials. |
In addition to using these website resources, teachers can teach students to use the e-mail system, chat system, friend systerm to establis communication links with foreign students,in order to improve student interest in learning and communication skills. Commonly used the system are: www.epals.com, www.keypals.com, www.msn.com, www.gmail.com and so on.
II. The Channels for Access and Distribute to English Teaching and Learning Resources.
The internet is democratic, shared we can not only access to English teaching and learning resources via the Internet, but also can be released through the internet and organize our teaching and learning resources, mainly through the following channels for distribution.
1. Establish Presonal Blog.
Blog, also translated as internet log or blog, it is a typically managed by individuals, from time to time to post a new article site. According to the blog articles are usually posted on time, in reverse order arranged by the New Old. Many blog focused on specific issues or to provide comments on the news, others were more personal as a diary. A typical blog combines text, images, links to other blog or website, and other media related to the topic. Allow readers to leave comments in an interactive manner is an important element of many of the blog. Most of the blog content in text-based, there are some blog focusing on art, photography, video, music, podcasts, and other topics. A blog is part of a network of social media. We can create a personal blog on the Internet, through the blog to recommend outstanding students in English learning materials to introduce the English learning website to guide learning English, arrange English learning tasks. At the same time, teachers can also be screened in English learning materials posted on his blog for reference by the students. In addition, teachers can also be applied to the power of blog knowledge generation, coding and transfer, to improve their professional capabilities, but also with others for a good information exchange and sharing. And now the students are a new era students, more like new things, the blog is only in recent years the rise of new biological networks, teachers create a personal blog, so that teachers and students more easily mix and enhance understanding between teachers and students to to promote the teaching and learning English.
2. Buiding Teaching Website in the Campus.
While we can recommend the website way to the students for providing students with quality learning resources, efficient use patterns. However, most websites are not for a specific learning community, which makes the content of these sites are not well adapted many of the learning needs of a certain age. Furthermore, due to time limited, it is difficult for the students to identify all the information one by one. For this situation, we can build an English teaching website in the Campus network according to the students language level, interests, needs, and the teacher’s teaching experience. We can identify the existing resources, screening, the download difficulties, language specification, the contents of appropriate resources to hang in the campus network; we can make these resources as needed to optimize the integration to make it more fun, practical ; we can be their own teaching experiences, learning recommended by the website to guide students; we can be their own lesson plans, courseware on the website communicate with other teachers; In addition, teachers can be on the existing website resources for analysis, evaluation, students choose a more suitable site to link to your website. We can focus on the school's teaching resources, English learning website will be built into teachers and students learning English service delivery platform, open up the second classroom teachers and students learning English, and promote school to learn English. In addition, English learning website will be among teachers, between students and between students and teachers exchange platform, we can enhance communication through this platform, where students can talk about the learning experience, cooperation, further learning. If funding allows in the future, the rich content of certain procedures, we will put this site to the Internet from the campus network, the website of teaching resources and global network together to achieve the network to promote the "one for all , all for one "concept.
III. How the Daily Teaching of English Use of the Internet Resources to Improve Student’s Listening, Speaking, Readig and Writing Skills.
We get the internet resource of English teaching by the both ways of engine searches for appropriate resources and collections related to English resource websites, through the establishment of a personal blog and website on campus teaching and communication network resources in English Teaching . Internet resources is the important resources that indispensable in the modern English teaching and learning, we will further discuss how the daily teaching of English use of these network resources to improve students listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as following:
1. Listening and Spoken English.
Listening and speaking are fundamental to any modern language, the most important and the most original features, these two just another Chinese weakness in English leaning. Examination-oriented education system as the main way by written examination, the lack of attention and not listening and oral expression, so "deaf English", "dumb English" is widespread.
Using the internet listening materials can improve the student’s interest of listening. There are a lot of English audio network resources, we can guide and direct students to search for or download audio for English learning. Meanwhile, students with “Put three steps Dictation” (ie, Dictation, comparison, translation and reading three steps) practice. For example, Unit 19 Lesson 74 courseware was inserted in the text read aloud the sound file, downloaded from the network “ Martin Luther King Lead the black civil rights demonstrators held a large-scale video files” and “Martin Luther King's charismatic famous speech “ I have a dream” in the acoustic sound files”. This will provide students with authentic materials, the creation of the authentic language environment for students on the ground until the end of class, Martin Luther King impassioned voice still on the student’s ears, these keep students deeply impressed.
To speak fluent English, the only way is to say more practice. whether two Chinese speacking English or the real British and American people speak English, the more speak in English the more better. In the past the students generally only in practice speaking english in the classroom in short time, with the computer network, we can encourage students to use the QQ messaging tools for chatting online, as network is virtualization, it can reduce the tensions when speak english face to face the result insufficient level of English. For high levels of students, we encourage students to use the international generic Skype, Skype’s sound quality is better than QQ, and it can be quickly and easily to search global English-speaking users, as long as the other party is willing, wherever you are, no matter how far away, you can start talking immediately. I was talking with an american in Chicago for about for two hours it equivalent of playing two hours of free international calls. Practice spoken english much, spoken naturally increase.
2. English Reading.
Reading is an important way to learn English, but also the Chinese people are familiar and customary ways of learning.
For the English reading of the new words, before we have to turn by a thick dictionary, it is slow and inefficient. Now, with Kingsoft software such as tool, just open the software, then move the mouse to the new words, to use the mouse with the software to take the words function, can be very easy to get the words translation, and then depending on the context to get the exact meaning. Kingsoft the amount of information is far more than the amount of information in a general dictionary, and it is much more convenient, we can use one of the new words of this function for the words Adjective facilitate future consolidation. Via Kingsoft has such a tool, we can read the tremendous amount of information in English on the Internet, 80% of the information on the Internet is in English, from a variety of magazines, to a variety of books, can be described as endless. As teachers, we not only recommend to the students learning online reading, we also learn english via internet ourselvs, to continue exchange of teaching experiences,to learn advanced educational philosophy and teaching methods to improve ourelves.
The contents of reading gengerally selected combination of textbooks that we are through the Web search and information related to textbooks as their reading, thereby expanding the knowledge of students, it also enhance student learning interest. For example, teaching texts “Weather report”, if the teachers teach according the textbook, or just ask students to memorize, students have no true feelings. If teachers require students to use the net work or television to note down the weather conditions in the cities recorded in form (see as below), then let them be taken in the English class the next day a television annoucer, broadcast weather conditions in mayjor cities in China, it not only activation of the teaching content, but also can activate their thinking, to promote active learning
City Beijing Nanjing Shanghai
weather Sunny Cloudy Rainy
Temperature 14℃ 18℃ 20℃
3. Written English
English Writing from the beginning, is a headache thing for most of the students. So we inquire every student to create their own mailbox, usually multiple E-mail contact, through the internet to make friends with the learners who like English.Also we have to encourage students to communicate with foreign friends, when you have the difficulties in writing, you can post your problems to some English learning website to get the answers requests online, so that students take more practice, more exchange, it can enhance writing fluency.
English writing is a gradual process, if you guid the students to make some simple sentences after finished the verbs learning, Such as writing, "my family", for example” There are three members is my family, my father,my mother and I.My father is an engineer.My mother is a shop assistant, I am a student of Zhang Ye Shi Yan Senior Middle Schoo1.My parents are busy all day.I often help them with the housework.They love me deeply, and I love them too”
Then we put the students writing on internet the discussion area for publication, students disucss with each other, point out the error, by such repeated exercises and discussions to improve their writing skills.
Conclusion
As information and internet technology advances, internet resources ad technology provides a broader English learning space.Today the teaching development in the teaching and learning are three-dimensional. All aspects of the application of modern media, it makes the initiative and enthusiasm of the students play better, it also make the students achieve better and development in creative thinking.
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