CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH ENGLISH ON THE INTERNET

Abstract

Improvement in the teaching of English as a second language is a concern among many teachers of English today. New sources of information are sought for to discover effective ways of teaching. A currently favoured but not widely explored means of teaching the English language is via the Internet. The Internet offers a variety of resources which teachers can use to make the teaching of English more interesting and effective. Apart from teaching materials teachers can get a lot of information on new developments in the teaching of English. This paper discusses how teachers can use Internet based resources to make their lessons mor effective and interesting. Evidence of the effectiveness of Internet based resources is taken from a research study which was recently conducted. The findings of this study showed that teachers were able to be creative and resourceful in the language classroom. This paper also offers alternative techniques of teaching of English as a second language using the Internet. It presents the teaching resources which are available on the Internet and describes creative ways of using them.