如何将互联网有效地融入语言教学

How to integrate World Wide Web into LL and LT

江剑钦

北京外国语大学成人教育学院

Abstract: The World Wide Web is claimed to have added new dimensions to language learning and teaching. The most noticeable feature of the Web is its similarity, even identity to real life. On it language learners can read Web versions of daily newspapers and same-day news reports from sources such as Reuters, BBC, etc. or sign in chatrooms to meet and talk to native speakers across the globe. As the authenticity of the materials is believed to more likely lead to success in LL, students are often simply asked to visit the Web pages in the target language (which is English in this paper) for language learning, without any specific guidance. Therefore, English input increases. But does the Web exhibit the features of a naturalistic environment that offers more opportunities for language learners? And is unintentional learning as effective as expected? This paper considers how highly the Web is valued in LL and LT since it emerged and works out four different methods of integrating the Web in the language classroom.

Keywords: World Wide Web, authenticity, unintentional learning, integration