Language learning and the Internet

Abstract

New technologies have brought novelties in all classes in general and languageclasses in particular. The nowadays student is almost always ahead of the teacher as far asthe use of new technologies is concerned and as a result the nowadays teacher has to struggle harder to respond to the students needs and make the right didactic use of technologies in class and get the greatest advantages out of it.This paper will concentrate on the didactic use of the internet in the foreign language classroom. It will be discussed about the way the language classroom has changed and made use of the technology. As literature gives a great contribution tolanguage acquisition, it will be shown how it can be taught through internet.Even though the students are quite able to navigate on the web there is a great dealof information and instruction they can receive from the teacher, and on the other hand internet serves as an infinite source of teaching material by the side of the teacher.It should be emphasised that the role of the teacher is very crucial in this process because the teacher with his/her experience and methodological and scientific preparation helps students not only to be better researchers of information but also use this information in the right way.