WHAT CAN THE WORLD WIDE WEB OFFER ESL/EFL TEACHERS?

The World Wide Web can offer a wide variety of sources to teachers. By using the web, teachers can develop their classes better and they can make the learning process easily for students. Teachers can find information about topics that are going to be develop in class and also they can find strategies to teach, vocabulary, practices for students, and activities that can help learns develop in class. Teachers can even find examples of lesson plans which focuses on reading, listening, writing or speaking skill; they can easily chose the ones that their learners need.

We, as future teachers, need to get into technology because students spend a lot of time on the web world and for them it is very easy to use any of the tools that internet offers. That is why teachers need to encourage them to use technology for educational purposes.

“One of the key problems in education reform is that traditional teaching fails because students have no use or interest in much the material as it is presented, yet in order to expand their understanding of a given subject, they must become involved in the entire teaching process. For example, producing a physics experiment in order to actively discover the results, in addition to exploring the social context in which the original experiment was performed, has more educational value than merely hearing a lecture about how some scientist first attempted the experiment several centuries ago.” Using any web tool in the classroom will make learners to feel more interested in the classes because these tools are unusual ways of learning and learners are interested in most of the things that internet can offer them. Engaging students from a variety of angles and allowing them to feel as if they are a part of the subject matter will often lead to them becoming more interested in (or at least more willing to discuss) that subject. Therefore, they invest more mental energy and thus commit the concept to memory with a better comprehensive understanding of it.

In addition, the web is a very useful source for teachers and students, but they all need to use it in the appropriate way and take advantages of all the tools it has in order to improve or skills and better our skills.