Week 4
The Use of the Internet
and Web Content
Dept. of English Education
C. H. Lee
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1. The Internet
1) What is the Internet?
① A global network of networks, based on the Internet Protocol (IP)
(* Protocol: A strict set of rules that govern the exchange of information
between computer devices.)
② Any network can join the Internet (research, academic, community &
commercial networks).
* It is often used as a term to describe the Web
2) What the Internet Offers.
① Communications: Across the campus or across the world
② Information resources: On a huge scale/A wide range of subjects/Many
formats
③ Publishing: The ability to publish
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3) Electronic mail (E-mail)
① Messages sent between computers
-Requires software, e.g., webmail, hotmail, hanmail, gmail, etc.
-E-mail address: For example, chlee04@hufs.ac.kr
- Free e-mail web sites:
www.hanmail.net, www.hotmail.com, www.gmail.com, etc.
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4) Mailing Lists
① Group communication facility
- One message sent to many members
- Subject based
- Automated distribution systems: Mailbase & Listserve
- Many uses: Discussion, disseminating information, surveys &
questionnaires, locating colleagues & electronic meetings
- Directory for Mailing Lists: www.liszt.com, www.reference.com,
www.classroom.net, http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=TESLL&H=LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU, etc.
For example, one of the useful mailing lists for language teaching and
learning is TESL-L:
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
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② To join: TESL-L (Teachers of English as a Second Language
List
TESLCA-L Computer-Assisted Learning branch of TESL-L
Once you have an e-mail ID, you can join TESL-L by doing the
following.
To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
with the command (paste it!):
SUBSCRIBE TESL-L
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• The TESL-L will reply to you with 'Subject :
Welcome to TESL-L!' and a welcome message –
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTION
FOR USING TESL-L.
• The welcome message also includes:
1) information on all of the special interest branches, such as
TESLCA-L(Computer-Assisted Language Learning and
Educational Technology), TESP-L(English for Specific
Purposes), etc. and on how to join them;
2) how to set yourself to receive no TESL-L mail temporarily;
3) how to leave TESL-L permanently, etc. All members of TESL-L
can join any or all of the special interest branches in the same
way as ① and ② above.
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5) Blog
A blog (Web log) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual, with regular
entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics
or video (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#Origins).
-Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms,
including Usenet, commercial online services such as CompuServe, and Bulletin
Board Systems (BBS).
- The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a
running account of their personal lives.
● Cyworld (Hangul: 싸이월드) is a South Korean web community site.
● UCC or UGC refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available,
that are produced by end-users.
● Twitter (http://twitter.com/): Social networking in USA
● Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/): Global social networking
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6) Information Resources
① Many subjects and formats available: Documents, Graphics, video &
audio, Software (free & shareware), Newspapers, Directories, Library
catalogues & databases, Books & journals, etc.
② Examples of resources for English Language Teaching and Learning
on the Internet
www.wida.co.uk (WIDA Homepage)
www.keris.or.kr (Korea Education & Research Information Service)
www.edunet4u.net (for elementary & secondary school)
www.sttc.or.kr (Seoul Education Training Institute)
www.ericsp.org (The Educational Resources Information Center: Teaching and Teacher Education)
www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/TESL/CALL/ (Online journal)
www.ericae.net (The Educational Resources Information Center: Assessment and Evaluation)
www.ike.co.kr , www.eltkorea.com etc. (for English teaching & learning)
www.cnn.com, www.bbc.co.uk, www.radio.cbc.ca, www.fox.com, etc. (TV & radio broadcast in
U.S)
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www.pbs.org/newshour (Live news hours & scripts)
www.newslink.org/news.html (searching for TV, radio, newspaper, magazines in the world),
www.chosun.com , www.donga.com , www.hani.co.kr etc. (Korean Newspapers)
www.nytimes.com, www.usatoday.com, www.washingtonpost.com, etc.(American Newspapers)
www.readersdigest.com, www.cosmopolitan.com , etc. (Magazines)
www.historychannel.com/speeches (collection of speeches)
www.movietunes.com (Movie scenes & music)
www.cal.org/chat (talking with ESL/EFL experts)
www.amazon.com (Cyber bookstore)
www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict.html (The differences between American & British English)
www.AOL.com (Online chatting)
http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8888 [ESL MOO(MultiUser Dimension, Objected-Oriented)]
http://lucien.berkeley.edu/moo.html (The Lost Library of MOO: MUD/MOO client programs and
research papers on MOOs,
http://www.youtube.com/ (Broadcast yourself), etc.
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2. The WorldWideWeb(Web)
1) What is the WorldWideWeb(WWW or the Web)? *Web2, Web 3
Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed
via the Internet.
① Distributed multimedia hypertext system
Distributed: The information held on the World Wide Web can be located on
computer systems from around the world.
Multimedia: The information held on the World Wide Web can be text,
graphics, sound and video.
Hypertext: The information held on the World Wide Web can be accessed
using a simple hypertext interface, often using a mouse to retrieve
information.
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② Client/Server Architecture
WWW is based on a client/server architecture.
Request made using http
Give me file X
Desktop Client
Here it is
Your desktop computer
Remote Server
A computer elsewhere on the Internet
holding information
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③ The Web was initially developed a CERN, the European
Particle Physics Research Laboratories based in Geneva,
Switzerland. It is now widely used within universities for
teaching, research and administrative purposes, as well as for
commercial use and entertainment.
④ Provides access to Internet resources, as well as Web
resources.
⑤ Clients known as browsers - Explorer, Google, etc.
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2) Locating Internet Resources
Uniform Resource Locator (URL): Standard address format for
Internet resources
URL indicates: Method of access & Location
For example: http://www.hufs .ac.kr
3) Terminology
① HTML - HyperText Markup Language (Native language for
documents on the Web
② HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol (Set of rules for
communication between client & server)
③ URL - Uniform Resource Locator (Address of an object on
the Internet)
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4) Uses of the Web: Research & teaching
① Sources of research material and funding are available for
researchers, administrators & students.
② WWW is used widely for teaching.
5) Searching for Information
Subject catalogues and sophisticated search engines can help
you find information using the Web.
- For example;
google (www.google.com)
Altavista: www.altavista.com
Excite: www.excite.com
Empas: www.empas.com
Yahoo: (www.yahoo.com, .kr.yahoo.com )
Lycos: www.lycos.com
Naver: www.naver.com
etc.
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6) Using the Web
What can you do with it?
① Make information available: Administrative/Information about
courses/Information about yourself/Web CVs/Timetables, etc.
② Teaching: Project work presentations/Personal data/Key-pal
exchanges/Find information/ On-line databases/Net search
③ Deliver teaching material: In printed form/In computer-based
interactive form
④ Get feedback from users: Email/Questionnaires
⑤ Find resources: For teaching/For language/For writing Web
Pages
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⑥ Advantages
- Can reach a wide audience.
- Writing for the Web can be cheap, free and easy
- What is written for the Web can be portable.
- Educational as well as pedagogical benefits
⑦ Disadvantages
- Can be slow.
- Access time can be expensive.
- Lack of security
- Some things are difficult or expensive on the net.
- Your work is on-display to the world (Adv. or Disadv?).
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7) Using E-mail in FLT/L
It offers students lots of benefits in a variety of ways:
It can provide interesting and authentic activities for developing
and reinforcing writing skills, particularly free or creative
writing, since they can exchange some written work, not just
trivial everyday information, but thoughts, ideas and opinions on
all kinds of subjects in the target language (Goodwin et al. 1993,
Kornum 1993, Markee 1994).
It is also used as a means of instructional delivery in and out of
the language classroom and across the world, though it is often
used for interpersonal communication between people (Goodwin
et al. 1993).
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There are a number of activities using e-mail and wordprocessors which can help develop the writing skills. First, for
example, one of the most obvious benefits in the use of e-mail is
to increase one to one interaction between the teacher and the
learner in the target language, i.e., individualized tutorials
(Goodwin et al. 1993).
Goodwin et al. (1993) shows an activity available as follows:
students are asked to read an article, write a one-paragraph
summary of the content, and respond with their opinions in
another paragraph; They focus on reading, summarizing,
analyzing, and responding to the texts; The teacher checks their
responses for linguistic and stylistic problems as well as overall
organization, and give them feedback.
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Thus, this activity will be very helpful for students in
developing specific academic writing, focusing on the
content area of writing. Second, the students also have an
opportunity to meet each other and other teachers across the
world (Goodwin et al. 1993). They have the chance to ask
questions about their interests, e.g., the program of the
university, weather, food, accommodation, etc. Since they
ask about different cultural aspects of their country, this eases
their adjustment to the new culture, language and customs
(Goodwin et al. 1993).
E-mail can help them to communicate in written English.
Stevens (1992) stated that to exchange some information can
also be to communicative. Thus, the use of e-mail can be
called communicative writing.
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3. Searching and Using ELT/L Materials in the Internet
1) Text
www.flep.co.kr (Education Consulting)
www.readersdigest.com, www.cosmopolitan.com , etc. (Magazines)
2) Pictures, Sound, Moving pictures
www.richmedia.lycos.com
www.msdn.microsft.com/downloads
www.pedagonet.com/clipart , www.clipartworld.com , etc.
3) Capturing and Editing Pictures
Snagit, Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc.
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4) Reading Texts
www.shadisoft.com
5) Editing Sound
www.goldwave.com , www.winamp.com , etc.
6) E-dictionary
http://kr.dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/,
http://dic.naver.com, www.impact.pe.kr/dic
www.wordcentral.com , www.encyclopedia.com ,
http://www.wikipedia.org/, etc.
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7) A Shareware site for ELT/L
www.softSeek.com
Reading
- Extracting main ideas, inferring, guessing, skimming and
scanning: Storyboard & Pinpoint (www.wida.co.uk) etc.
- Speed reading: Letter Chase (Letterchase.com,
http://www.letterchase.com)
Rocket Reader (Rocket Reader, http://www.rocketreader.com),
Freader (Readingsoft.com, http://readingsoft.com)
… etc.
Writing, listening, and Speaking: see MALL, chapter 3 & 10.
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4. Tasks
1) Search and download text (1-2), pictures (2-3), sounds (1-2),
and moving picture (1) for ELT and save them on your computer.
2) Search a couple of useful websites for ELT/L and describe their
distinctive features.
3) Subscribe TESL-L or TESLCA-L, send one or two questions, a
nd share some replies with your classmates.
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Skills for using the internet? (1)
Searching
Searching effectively
It all depends
http://www.naver.com
http://www.daum.co.kr
http://www.google.co.kr
http://www.googlefight.com/
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