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Creating Web-Based Language Learning Activities
Sally Morrison, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Introduction
Digests
Journals
Books
Web Sites
Listservs
ERIC Documents
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Introduction
The wealth of information provided on the Web affords language teachers and learners access to resources like never before. Online journals, listservs, newspapers, and magazines provide authentic material for language learners while the researching capabilities of the Web assist teachers in study and practice.
What makes the Web especially exciting as a resource for language teaching and learning is its possibilities for interactivity. Online language tutorials, exercises, and tests are available to anyone who has access to the Web. Web-based materials can be updated and distributed easily and quickly, and feedback for many activities is instantaneous.
Language teachers can create their own Web-based language learning activities. Here are three examples of the many types of interactive language learning activities that are possible on the Web.
This simple HTML-based quiz on English articles provides answers for student self-assessment.
These French reading passages from Bonjour de France include pop-up vocabulary help created with JavaScript.
This pronunciation practice exercise integrates HTML and Shockwave to test students' differentiation of the words "want" and "won."
Acknowledgements
ERIC/CLL is grateful to Jean LeLoup of SUNY Cortland (Co-Moderator of the Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv) for her valuable assistance in compiling this Resource Guide Online.
Resources
The following publications, Web sites, and listservs offer additional information about creating Web-based language learning activities. This Resource Guide concludes with an annotated bibliography of ERIC documents on this topic.
Digests
Educational MOO: Text-Based Virtual Reality for Learning in Community
Enhancing Authentic Language Learning Experiences Through Internet Technology
Evaluating Online Educational Materials for Use in Instruction
Interactive Language Learning on the Web
Technology-Delivered Assessment: Guidelines for Educators Traveling the Technology Highway
Tools for Automating Instructional Design
Using the World Wide Web with Adult ESL Learners
XML: A Language to Manage the World Wide Web
Journals
The CALICO Journal
The CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Journal is devoted to the dissemination of information concerning the application of technology to language teaching and language learning.
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Computer Assisted Language Learning is an international journal which provides a forum to discuss the discoveries in the field of CALL and to exchange experience and information about existing techniques.
Educational Technology Research and Development
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Creating Web-Based Language Learning Activities
Sally Morrison, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Introduction
Digests
Journals
Books
Web Sites
Listservs
ERIC Documents
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Introduction
The wealth of information provided on the Web affords language teachers and learners access to resources like never before. Online journals, listservs, newspapers, and magazines provide authentic material for language learners while the researching capabilities of the Web assist teachers in study and practice.
What makes the Web especially exciting as a resource for language teaching and learning is its possibilities for interactivity. Online language tutorials, exercises, and tests are available to anyone who has access to the Web. Web-based materials can be updated and distributed easily and quickly, and feedback for many activities is instantaneous.
Language teachers can create their own Web-based language learning activities. Here are three examples of the many types of interactive language learning activities that are possible on the Web.
This simple HTML-based quiz on English articles provides answers for student self-assessment.
These French reading passages from Bonjour de France include pop-up vocabulary help created with JavaScript.
This pronunciation practice exercise integrates HTML and Shockwave to test students' differentiation of the words "want" and "won."
Acknowledgements
ERIC/CLL is grateful to Jean LeLoup of SUNY Cortland (Co-Moderator of the Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv) for her valuable assistance in compiling this Resource Guide Online.
Resources
The following publications, Web sites, and listservs offer additional information about creating Web-based language learning activities. This Resource Guide concludes with an annotated bibliography of ERIC documents on this topic.
Digests
Educational MOO: Text-Based Virtual Reality for Learning in Community
Enhancing Authentic Language Learning Experiences Through Internet Technology
Evaluating Online Educational Materials for Use in Instruction
Interactive Language Learning on the Web
Technology-Delivered Assessment: Guidelines for Educators Traveling the Technology Highway
Tools for Automating Instructional Design
Using the World Wide Web with Adult ESL Learners
XML: A Language to Manage the World Wide Web
Journals
The CALICO Journal
The CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Journal is devoted to the dissemination of information concerning the application of technology to language teaching and language learning.
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Computer Assisted Language Learning is an international journal which provides a forum to discuss the discoveries in the field of CALL and to exchange experience and information about existing techniques.
Educational Technology Research and Development