Media Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris

Media Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris
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Subject : Media pembelajaran bahasa inggris

Summry of using websites


USING WEBSITES

Using websites in the classroom

In this chapter we look at the basic skill set needed for effective use of the Internet with your students and take a closer look at the process for introducing the Internet into your teaching.

Using website is one of the easiest and least stressful ways of getting started with technology in the classroom.

The web is a source of content which can be used as a window on the wider world outside your class, and is – of course – a readily available collection of authentic material.

Indeed, you can use wet pages in the classroom in a variety of ways:

· as printed pages, with no computers

· with one computer with an Internet connection

· in a computer lab with a set of networked and connected computers

ELT websites or authentic websites?

Authentic sites also provide an ideal opportunity to work through the issues of `total comprehension' that plenty of learners have to deal with at some point in their studies. They can be guided towards being comfortable with understanding the content of a site and identifying what they need to know or find out without getting bogged down in having to understand every word on the screen.

How to find useful websites

a. Search engines

b. Subject guide

c. Real language searches

How to evaluate websites

1. Accuracy

2. Currency

3. Content

4. Functionality

Planning lessons using the Internet

A movie star is a sample lesson plan based on this structure. You can use this as a template for your own planning. It is worth noting that there is nothing intrinsically different from the more traditional course book approach here – perhaps the major value of this material is its intrinsic motivational element: real actors being interviewed for a real programme. This, plus the contemporary nature of most website content, make the web an ideal source of material.

a. A lesson plan – Movie stars

b. Warmer

c. Web

d. What next

Working with lower levels of language proficiency

Choosing the right websites can go some way towards raising their comfort levels, though you may need to have shorter lesson than the higher level one described above. Websites which are more suitable for lower levels will include

· Websites with simple, clearly presented text.

· Websites with non-linguistic data which is easy to interpret (e.g. data in the form of a chart, such as a weather page).

· Websites with visuals – a task can be based around the visuals only.

· ELT websites, where the content has been written, edited and prepared with this audience in mind.

a. Borrowed words

This is a low-level lesson concentrating on different languages and the words they have contributed to English. The language areas covered are countries and languages.

b. Warmer

Ask your learners if they know of any words in their own language that have come from other languages. Build up a chart on the board. You may need to help with the English versions.

c. Web

Give each pair, some time to ask and answer the questions, and complete the table. Provide feedback on a model table on the board and help out with any vocabulary problems which `nay have arisen.

d. What next

An additional follow-up project idea is for learners to ‘collect’ English words they find in their environment, if they live in a non-English speaking country, e.g. English words on TV, or on advertising billboards and signs. These could be added to a poster in the classroom.

Web teaching dos and don'ts

Planning carefully and adopting a structured approach to the way you use websites in the classroom should give you the confidence to try out different ways of introducing your learners to Internet content.