Using the World Wide Web in the Foreign Language Classroom

presented by Caroline Clifford and Carolyn Fay

January 31, 1997

sponsored by the Teaching Resource Center

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Outline of Workshop:

I               Introduction

                Purposes of workshop

                Our vision: language and culture resource pages 

                Development of resource pages

                How we got started using the web in FL classroom

II             Show and Tell: Resource pages and Sample activities

                Resource pages

                Scavenger Hunt (intro activity)

                Alanis Morisette Interview (grammar)

                Shopping (vocab)

                Environment (reading comprehension)

                Vacation (functional/task-based)

III            Your Turn! Brainstorm activity in pairs--present to group

                Categories: Famous people, Media, Sports and Health, Art, History

                Goals: Grammar or vocab practice; cultural understanding; reading comprehension; other reading skills (scanning, skimming, etc.)

IV            The Reality: Practical Experience Teaching with the Web

V             From the Students: What students had to say about using the Web in the            

                classroom

VI            Questions/General Discussion/Surf Time!