HOW A NEW APPROACH IN TEACHING CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
HOW A NEW APPROACH IN TEACHING CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

Summary/Abstract: Everyday exposure to the Internet and its resources results in a significant change in scholars’ approach to learning. It is well known that the new generation of “digital natives” needs new teaching-learning strategies complementary or opposed to the old/traditional ones that permit learners to communicate and collaborate, and even switch the role with their teacher. E-learning is the common frame of this new type of transmitting-acquiring information. Providing an open and transparent environment for learners, E-learning can also ensure an authentic audience when they are to display the results of their work. Web-based learning and computer-learning are two of the new means that showed how new technologies make a difference in education when properly used.The present paper intends to be an example on how teachers could transform Internet materials into skill-oriented teaching materials. As a teacher in a military institution I found out that the Internet is an endless source of materials that can be used for teaching ESP as students have already oriented their education toward a specific field and do concentrate more on language in context than on grammar and language structures. Using Internet based materials for enhancing both productive (Speaking and Writing) and non-productive (Reading and Listening) skills are always beneficial for students. They use the materials teacher provides in their own time, having the opportunity to re-read or listen again for as many times as they need in order to fulfill the requirements. The teacher is merely a link between the student and the Internet materials as he is the one who chooses them, providing a bridge for the students towards meaningful and relevant materials.

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