Interactive Language Learning on the Web
The wealth of information available on the Web affords teachers and
learners access to language learning resources like never before. Online
journals, listservs, newspapers, and magazines provide authentic material
for language learners, while teachers can find lesson plans and ideas,
exercises, assessment tools, and other materials for use in their classes
Why Create Your Own Web-Based Language
Learning Activities?
A quick search of the Web for interactive language learning activities
will yield hundreds of online exercises, lessons, games, and quizzes in
many different languages. Although using previously made activities is
tempting, 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.
The development of Web-based language teaching and learning activities
is sure to continue to be an exciting and growing field. While
computer programmers, instructional designers, and computational linguists
steadily push the extremes of the field, language instructors can
use the basic tools of discussion boards and Weblogs, HTML, JavaScript RealAudio, and CGI scripts to create dynamic, interactive, and functional
materials for their courses on the World Wide Web..
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