On this week we are faced to the use of Internet to reinforce students' skills on reading, writing and vocabulary. We read about the influence of the Web on learning English as foreign language and for me the article "Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction"of Jarek Kraika gave me a lot of new ideas to develop with my students through Internet. Here the author proposed, supported by serious research, that one of the best current tendencies in developing and improving reading and writing skills (here vocabulary is included) is the Internet. The possibilities to work with those skills and Internet go beyond multiple choice activities. Pen- pals, collaborative writing proyects, descriptions, essays and some other communicative writings are the current activities to be developed through Internet. Despite of this advantages, we have to be very careful and select appropriate web pages for our students.
In Addition, this web - course applies different techniques and strategies than the ones we use for our teaching practice. The lesson plan that we developed during this week challenged our usual way of planning. Planning every lesson is the step 1 in any teaching method, independently of the methodology we are appliying in our classes. I consider there is no teaching when we don have a lesson plan. Now I know another way to plan my classes and I am looking forward to apply it.
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