Ebook: The Internet and Young Learners

Oxford University Press, 2004. - 152 p.This book begins with a series of practical activities to familiarize learners (and teachers too perhaps!) with the way the Internet works. It moves on to activities involving communication via email. The third section offers activities to do with retrieving information from the Internet. Finally, there are activities designed to help learners build their own websites. The activities are clearly described and user-friendly, and will go a long way towards dispelling the misgivings many teachers feel about computers and the Internet as a resource.
Much has been made of the power of information technology in language education. This has occasionally led to a blind enthusiasm for technology without a corresponding concern for its appropriate use. This book will certainly help redress this imbalance. It views the Internet as a learning resource, to be used judiciously alongside other resources, rather than as a miracle-working solution to all learning problems. This is greatly to be welcomed.