USING WEBSITES

Name : Nurasiah Hilmi

NPM : 06211210284

Class : B/IV

Subject : Media Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris

USING WEBSITE

· Using Website in the Classroom

Using website is one of the easiest and least stressful ways of getting started with technology in the classroom. There is a large and constantly expanding collection of resources on the web, at a variety of levels and covering and amazing array of topics. You can choose from authentic sources or ELT-specific sites, monolingual or multilingual sites, sites with multimedia, or just simple text, for those on slower connections. 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.

· ELT Website or Authentic Website?

There are plenty of ELT websites which provide content that your learners can use, for example language practice activities they can do on their own. They provide valuable opportunities for more controlled language work and are often a great help to learners who need to brush up on certain aspects of the language or to prepare for an exam. Such sites are often ideal for homework, access to the internet permitting.

· How to Find Useful Websites

There are three basic ways of searching on the internet:

1. Search Engines
2. Subject Guides
3. Real Language Searches

· How to Evaluate Websites

There are various standard criteria for judging websites which can serve as a starting point for your evaluation:

1. Accuracy
2. Currency
3. Content
4. Functionality

· Planning Lessons Using the Internet

Planning a web-based lesson, rather than one where the web content plays an ancillary role is not intrinsically different from planning a more traditional one. We like to divide a typical web-based session into three parts (www): warmer, web, what next.

· Working with Lower Levels of Language Proficiency

A familiar worry for lower levels is how much of a given text the students will understand. Lower-level learners often feel they have to understand everything and this will lead to problems, if not dealt with beforehand.

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

1. Websites with simple, clearly presented text.
2. Websites with non-linguistic data which is easy to interpret.
3. Websites with visual – a task can based around the visuals only.
4. ELT websites, where the content has been written, edited and prepared with this audience in mind.

· 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.

Most of the time you will be using websites to provide your learners with knowledge and content which they perhaps do not know, or would normally not have access to, or to supplement more traditional course materials. This can be highly motivating for them, leading to more language production and a higher stake in the success of the class.

It is worth bearing in mind that it is not necessarily the ‘all-singing, all-dancing’ websites – ones with a lot of animation, video, audio or other multimedia content – which will be of most interest or use in your classrooms. Don’t discount simple text-based websites which might be very beneficial in your own context. Apart from anything else, they are less likely to malfunction or cause problems when you go top use them.