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- CALL
- Discuss on your TESOL reading
- Internet ESL/EFL Teaching
- Online ESL Resources
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- Ready-made software on CD-ROMs
- Your own creation
- PowerPoint: example
- HyperStudio: example
- Other applications
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- Interactive learning
- Integration of sounds, visual, text
- Provide a variety of activities
- Accuracy and ease of use
- Teachers can design their own materials.
- Individualized lesson.
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- Financial considerations
- May not be effective to stimulate students
- Limited language – based on the programmer
- Time consuming for teachers to design
- Limitation in platform or computer hardware
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- Authentic contact available
- Teachers find large amount of data
- No platform problem
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- Students may copy copyright information
- Speed problem
- No mechanism to help the students track their paths
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- How does the Internet help us learn and teach ESL/EFL or other foreign
languages?
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- Access vast information
- Printed materials
- Video
- Audio
- Contact & interact with other people
- Allow cross-curricular work
- Motivational
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- Teachers need to use computers and the Internet to create activities
with language-learning purposes, not to purely “display the technology”
- (Windeatt, Hardisty, & Eastment, 2000)
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- Dave’s ESL Café http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling
- TESOL website
http://tesol.org
- Purdue Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) http://owl.trc.purdue.edu/
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