Interactive Language Learning on the Web

I’m sure that most of us are aware of the revolution that has been going on in schools around the world. 

 Online language tutorials, exercises, and tests are available to anyone who has access to the Web. This accessibility makes Web-based language learning activities quite attractive to both instructors and learners.

For teachers, they can create their own interactive language learning activities on the Web.

For students, there are  tutorials, exercises, and tests are available to anyone who has access to the Web, SO  it help  both instructors and learners.

 There are many advantages to creating your own interactive language learning activities for the Web. These advantages include accessibility, renewability, and adaptability.

- Accessibility:By putting course material on the Web, teachers provide students with 24-hour, independent access to course information, and updates to Web pages and new assignments are immediately available to students.

- Renewability: Once created, materials can be updated easily and often.

- Adaptability:Web-based activities can easily be modified to support students at different proficiency levels or with special needs.

Challenges in Creating Web-Based Activities

-  There are challenges in creating Web-based language learning activities is that teachers do not have the technical skill and knowledge to do so.

- Creating simple Web-based activities requires no more than basic HTML skills, many teachers lack even this.

- Most teachers do not have any time to devote to gaining these new skills.

- The variability of students' access to computers.

-  The need to design Web pages that meet accessibility guidelines for individuals with disabilities so that students with special needs are not left out.

We can teach using web...

- Vocabulary practice, grammar lessons, comprehension exercises.

- Reading and writing tasks.

- Pronunciation exercises,

- Online discussion boards are a good way to hold class discussions and create reading and writing activities for students. 

 -For writing, to create online writing assignments or discussions is through a Weblog, or "blog."

- Games and exercises designed to help students learn new vocabulary are easily put on the Web.

- Any online form used for interactive activities such as quizzes and vocabulary and grammar exercises will require either a CGI script or JavaScript

- JavaScript is an information collection and feedback tool that is used to make Web pages interactive. 

- Listening comprehension exercises, such as fill-in-the-gap exercises done while listening to audio, transfer nicely to the Web.

- Online exercises that use JavaScript are limited in their interactivity in that they can only provide a way for students to check their own answers.

SO

made an interactive in a variety of ways.

I am now quite hopeful that before too long our children’s (or grandchildren’s) classrooms will no longer resemble the ones we were in and that the materials that students use will be able to teach critical thinking, advance knowledge, and entertain simultaneously.

The digital train has left the station, and that’s a good thing.