Using Web-based language learning activities in the ESL classroom

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Jeong-Bae Son
Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba QLD

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Abstract

This article looks at ways of using Web-based language learning (WBLL) activities and reports the results of a WBLL project that developed a Web site as a supplementary resource for teaching English as a second language (ESL) and tested the Web site with a group of students in an ESL context.

The Web site provides WBLL session plans for ESL teachers, containing three types of WBLL activities: pre-created Web activities for grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening; task-based Web activities that require students to use the Web to produce certain outcomes; and teacher-made Web activities. Participants in WBLL sessions using the Web site showed positive attitudes toward WBLL and expressed the view that they would like to use more Web activities during and outside class time.

Keywords

ESL, language learning, Web-based language learning (WBLL), teaching environment

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