Using Web Tools ELT

1. Paper no.12
 Name:- Sanjaykumar N Jogadiya.
 Subject:- English Language Teaching
 Topic:- Using Web Tools ELT
 Part:- M.A. Sem-3
 RollNo.24,
 EnrollmentNo:-2069108420200017
 Email Id:- snjogadiya@amail.com
 Submitted:- Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English
MK Bhavnagar University.

2. Introduction
Rapid advances in ICT in recent years have resulted in
extensive exploration of potential uses of ICT in
educational settings. Many teachers around the world,
including English language teachers, are now taking
innovative steps to integrate technology into their
learning environment.
In language teaching, language teachers have a wide
variety of choices to integrate technology into their
classes. The term refers to the second generation of the
World Wide Web, which makes it easier for people to
collaborate and share online.

3. • There are hundreds of these tools on the Internet,
making it difficult for language teachers to determine
useful topics for language learning. The purpose of this
study is to look at some very useful web tools for
teaching English as a foreign language, which is
determined after a rigorous selection based on
practical experiments and experience.
• This type of approach is useful for language teachers
to be aware of the potential uses of web tools to enrich
their learning environment. Moreover, the purpose of
English language teaching is to give language teachers
creative and practical ideas on the use of these tools.

4. Learning tools.
• Wikipedia:-A website is one of the most common resources
in contributing to the Web. Websites as such can be divided
into several groups according to their content, purpose,
function, language etc.
• E-journals:- E-journals are part of websites where one
can find electronic journals. E-journals usually contain
articles, newsletters, conference details, publication or
entries in order. Visitors can always feedback/comment
on articles. The content of an e-journal depends on its
user but they are very often focused on a certain area,
e.g. medicine, economics, sociology etc.

5. • Blogs:- The term blog comes from the
combination of the words 'web' and 'log'. Blogs
are websites which main idea was adapted from
individual interest.
• Podcast:- Media files for uploading and
downloading audio and video are called podcast.
The term stands for 'pod', i.e. portable on
demand, and 'broadcast'. Originally, podcast were
used by online radios but they spread to all areas
of the Internet

6. • Social networking websites:- Social networking
is bringing people into specific groups, through
various communities to share their views,
Although social networking is not official
communication network for sending and
receiving at universities and schools in India yet it
is most popular online communication today with
applications called ‘whatsup’ or ‘Facebook’. The
social networking websites are here to connect
people by communication and socializing.

7. Limitations
• The big concern about the use of web materials is
trust, reliability and honesty in the integrity of the
short-lived digital world. This content may be
unsupported, unfiltered, user-required content. There
is no standard master for uploading content to the
web.
• It provides no purpose for learning then naturally the
learner has no chance to reflect on what he learns. It's
a gateway to finding wiki information on Google, blogs,
or the web or social networking. It is difficult to
integrate traditional objective

8. Learner’s interest
• Learners who have grown with digital world will always
learn differently from others because he or she has
improved his or her ability to multitasking learning
from pictures, sound and video, social networking,
blogging, browsing rather than reading a text or
textbook based information.
• There hyperlinks provided then hypertext minded
people craving for ways learning, preferring to listen or
watch. Learners are addicted to infotainment.

9. Canclusion
• Teachers, especially language teachers, are becoming more
and more interested in and enthusiastic about integrating
ICT into their teaching environments. Web tools language
learning environment since they allow students to become
creators of their own knowledge rather than passive
recipients.
• Language teachers have started to realize that Web tools
are providing opportunities to enrich and support their
students’ learning. However, they have to choose the most
appropriate ones of these tools, most of which are freely
available on the Internet. The tools may become beneficial
for teaching a foreign language in the hands of creative and
knowledgeable language teachers.