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1.4 Usage of Internet recourses in the process of teaching English
All these innovations became a great discovery in the sphere of computer technologies, but one of the most revolutionary achievements of last decades, which influenced considerably on educational process all over the world, is creation of Internet. Usage of cyberspace for teaching purposes is absolutely new trend of didactics and methodology. These changes touch all areas of teaching process: from choice of means and style of work to change of requirements of knowledge s level.main purpose of learning foreign language in high school is formation of communicative ability, all other aims are put into effect during the process of carrying out that mean purpose.approach implies teaching communication and formation ability to cross-cultural interaction and it sa base of Internet. It doesn t have any sense without communication, because Internet is an international society, which lives only by electronic communication of millions of people. When we enter Internet on the lesson of foreign language, we create a model of real communication.provides true language environment, and pupils find themselves in real true-to-life situations. They are involved in solution of important and interesting tasks, pupils are taught spontaneously and it helps them to create unusual statements which differ from clich? S. of usage Internet-recourses are enormous. Global net creates all conditions for getting any necessary information: country-specific material, news of youth s life, articles from newspapers and magazines and others. s possible to solve a lot of didactic tasks during the lessons of English with the help of Internet: to form skills of reading, using materials of Internet; to improve skills of writing; enrich vocabulary of pupils; to form steady motivation to learning foreign languages.can take part in testing, quizzes, competitions which can be found in Internet. Also they can communicate with pupils of the same age from other countries and participate in charts and video conferences., Computer is loyal to variety of pupils answers: it doesn t accompany their work with eulogistic comments or criticism and this fact creates favorable psychological atmosphere on a lesson.we should remember mastering of communicative ability is impossible without practice of communication, and usage of Internet-recourses on the lesson of foreign language is irreplaceable in this sense: virtual environment of Internet allows to go out of boards of time and place, giving users an ability of authentic communication with real interlocutors. However, we shouldn t forget, that Internet is just educational supplement and in order to reach better results we should integrate it correctly in the process of lesson.can be very helpful for other purposes of teaching too. For example, let us observe use of Internet in auding.site of company Lucent Technologies and its department Bell Labs allow listening to pronunciation of any phrase in foreign language. Here can be found speech synthesizer, which turns printed text into sound. It means, that we can post-synch any phrase from the textbook or any other teaching material. On-line textbooks are most suitable for these purposes. Also all data can be saved and there will be no need to use Internet in order to listen to the extract again.is a perfect mean of getting information from all over the world and besides, we always will receive the latest news about what is going on. Thereby, with the help of Internet we can turn a classroom into news agency and pupils into reporters of first-class. Such way of activity during the lesson of foreign language suits pupils of senior school, since in includes the great volume of reading and art of interpretation, fluent speaking.all significant newspapers have their own web pages. In order to find out where and what newspapers exist, there is site MEDIA LINKS [14; 1] which contains links to a great number of editions.a mean of knowledge s acquirement, on-line newspaper is a irreplaceable «helper». It allows to be absorbed in the thick of things, and it takes place in current situation. Also it sa great opportunity to see what is going on from different points of view. The most valuable link is «send us feedback», which carries out interaction of readers with publishers. Also, pupils can pass an opinion concerning what they read and have a talk with the author of the article. They can do it thanks to the section «Today s columnists» .World News [15; 1], News [16; 1], World Service [17; 1], Washington Times [18; 1], New York Times [19; 1] .links, mentioned above, have very similar and quite convenient structure for users. Titles and number of columns can vary, it depends on edition, however, all of them touch main spheres of our life.the work of gr...
