English self-learning in the Internet environment

English self-learning in the Internet environment

1. Challenges of Internet for English teaching
1.1 provide authentic communication needs and atmosphere: Both Chinese-speaking people stickly talk in an unfamiliar English language, without having to talk. I believe everyone who learns English has experienced such awkwardness. The development of the Internet has created real communication needs and atmosphere for students and teachers. For a student studying English in China, what is more important than reading the English webpage of "original language materials" every day, or is it more authentic and challenging to talk to a key friend in an English-speaking country via email? Even if they communicate with a non-English-speaking Japanese or Korean in English, they are still authentic because they both have the desire to understand or introduce the situation to the other party, it is also necessary to use English as a communication tool. When students can't wait to open their email box, read emails from key friends, and learn how to reply to emails, when they sit in front of their computers and purposefully gather the required information and language materials in the English world, we no longer need to worry about how to increase their learning interests, you don't have to worry about whether their language is adequate.
1.2 impact on traditional foreign language curriculum settings:The boundaries between traditional closed course setup models, such as intensive reading, extensive reading, listening, newspaper and newspaper selection, writing, and translation, will become increasingly vague, A comprehensive cross-major and cross-department course with English as a tool will emerge, which puts forward new requirements for English quick reading ability of students, science students and instructors. At the same time, with the increase in the proportion of online teaching resources and the speed of updating, the use of printed and electronic media teaching resources will become increasingly prominent. In addition, the open curriculum will give teachers more autonomy to choose teaching materials or flexible management of unified teaching materials and recommended teaching materials, but it will also greatly increase the intensity and difficulty of preparing lessons.

2. self-learning resources provided by the Internet
2.1 Introduction to major English Teaching Resources
2.1.1esl/EFL teaching resources:Many outstanding educational experts have launched their own educational web pages. People from all over the world can leave messages, exchange information, and participate in discussions, includes ESL question answering, instant language testing, key friend recommendation, and ESL link.
2.1.2 English teaching electronic publications:In addition to reading, writing, testing, and computer-aided language learning materials, it also includes academic articles, research papers, instructional design, and guidance on teaching methods.
2.1.3Academic organizations: Many academic organizations have their own homepages. Readers can view new developments and new trends in various academic fields and participate in various international conferences if conditions permit.
2.1.4 newspapers and magazines:Free e-newspapers and magazines send important daily news to your mailbox, which fundamentally changes the lag of Traditional Newspapers. Teachers can use these materials to design news comprehension exercises, this avoids the trouble of re-inputting or scanning.

2.2 important webpage Guide

Teaching Resources	Dave's ESL cafe (http ://Www.eslcafe.com) Activities for ESL/EFL StudentsHttp://www.aitech.ac.jp /~ Iteslj/S/
Electronic Publications	Eflweb (http: // U-Net. com/eflweb) Internet tesl Journal (http: // www.aitech.ac.jp /~ Iteslj /)
Academic organizations	The American Association of intensive English program (Http: // www. aaiep.org) Canada TESOL (http: // www. tesl. ca)
Newspapers and magazines	CNN interactive (http: // http://www.cnn.com /) Electronic. newsstand (http: // http://www.enews.com /) Time magazine (http: // www. pathfinder.com/Time) Ezine@adsl.soim.com

3. How to effectively use online English Learning Resources
3.1 search tools and methods:Online search tools include search engines, search directories, and online libraries. There are many search engines, each of which has its own characteristics and advantages. Generally, when a search tool does not meet your requirements, the system automatically recommends another method to you.Http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Help/searchdetails.htmlFind. The following are frequently used search tools and methods.

Yahoo	Http: // www.yahoo.com
Google	Http: // www.google.com
Alta. Vista	Http: // altavista.digital.com
Education	Http: // www.education-world.com
Infoseek	Http: // infoseek.com/
Eric	Http: // ericae.net

3.2 Search Skills: To travel in the vast world wide web information resources, If you do not know the keywords and methods of searching, it is often a waste of time and telephone fees to query online materials.
There are two common information search methods: one is to classify by topic and narrow the search scope layer by layer. For example, Yahoo, Google, and some online libraries can query by this method; the other is to use a search engine to search for keywords, keywords, or natural language. Because the systems of various search engines are different, they often need to be switched at any time or used together. The following uses the love goddess Venus (also known as Venus) goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology as an example to describe how to quickly and accurately search for information.
3.2.1 ExploitationAnd, not and or make keywords as specific as possible: After you type "Venus" in the Yahoo or Google search engine, dozens of links related to the planet and Venus are opened. The content has nothing to do with the subject, type the keyword "Venus not planet", "Venus and Greek", or "Venus or love goddess" again ". "Not" is used to exclude information related to the planet, and "and" is used to limit the logical relationship between "Venus" and "Greece". To further narrow the scope, you can type "Venus or love goddess and Greek not planet ".
3.2.2 fuzzy suffix Query: If you are not very clear about the spelling of an English word, you only need to enter the stem part of the keyword with the asterisk (*), and the search system will automatically find all related webpages containing the stem part. If you type "femin *", links such as feminist, feminism, and feminists journalism are displayed.

4. The Internet has triggered the "self-learning revolution"

In the last century, self-learning was generally restricted by factors such as work location, economic conditions, teacher levels, and opportunities to go abroad. Now, it is called the Internet of the world's largest "Information Supermarket, beyond the limitations of time and space, we can break through the constraints of background and learning personality, and provide a good opportunity and environment for teachers and students in any field to learn and improve themselves. If you don't take full advantage of this instant e-messaging in education, if anyone doesn't want to master the latest learning method, it will be like the ancients refused to use fire, text and print.
The popularity of the Internet makes computer technology no longer a secret weapon of computer professionals. It can also be predicted that in the near future, English will no longer be the monopoly advantage of English professionals.