UNIT 9 USING THE INTERNET

[ALBA CELESTE SALGADO]

1. How have you used email and the Internet to help you in your teaching? For example, have you ever used materials from the Internet in your classes? Do you use email to communicate with your students? Do you belong to any kind of teaching forum?
2. What are some problems involved in using the Internet in your teaching? How would you suggest avoiding or solving these problems?
3. Make some predictions about the way technology is likely to affect the teaching of languages in the next five to ten years. For example, what kinds of translation and interactive programs will we be using? Will this make teaching easier? Will it affect the role of the teacher?

The books are excellent resources and all teachers are interested in incorporating technology into their language classes.
Because today is the world of internet,
The social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in, Pinterest, Google plus etc are not only useful for business or personal contacts. You can use it in the class , teachers easily make new ciber-classmates and find pages in which the teachers can share or make didactical materials, give class with only you get connected with them.
The growth of the Internet in the world provides many opportunities to many people around the world in many different ways. When students are considered, the use of the Internet is mainly for social and entertainment purposes. However, it is very obvious that the Internet provides not only social connection and entertainment, but also academic and scientific information as well. Additionally, the Internet can be used as a tool to learn the latest news all around the world as well as getting any kind of information that serves different purposes such as learning more information about a hobby or health. Therefore, it can be said that the Internet is the source of spreading information quickly to a large audience and of going beyond the limitation of time and space. In the light of the above information, it is vitally important to encourage students to use this invaluable source to get any kind of information they need in their academic studies. For the reasons mentioned above, the aim of this study is look at the students‟ use of Internet in their academic studies. In a fact I use the internet with my students in class, after of earthquake we had in touch by facebook, they received homework, materials, worksheets and other things , I checked the works.
I share my favorite page in internet is www.shertonenglish.com