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P. Slaouti – P. Bouboureka: Educational Technology in English Language Teaching
Web – based Teaching and the Teaching of Skills part I – Reading
An internet lesson should be as well-planned as any other lesson. The teacher should attract the students’ interest with an activity promoting their involvement.
Reading is perhaps the most benefited from the use of the Web. …
The most prominent characteristic of hypertext is non-linearity. Unlike printed texts, in which information is presented in a linear way, hypertext/web-text is non-linear and related sections of the text are connected to each other by a semantic network of links.
Following these links through the sections of the text, the user-reader actively engages with the text, choosing an individual path relevant to his/her needs and interests, a path that is different than the next reader’s.
Students employ certain techniques when they are reading hypertext:
Prediction (asking themselves questions about the content or the development of the plot), Skimming and scanning, Invoking background knowledge, Finding similarities and differences with their own lives and applying information to a wider context.
Even when they are searching for a specific web page unconsciously they employ the same techniques: they try to predict the contents of the page by its title and appearance they skim and scan in order to find what they are looking for and they read for specific information when they have located the webpage.
Of course, reading webpages also develops their vocabulary when they are guessing the meaning of the words in context or when they are using on-line dictionaries or google translate to interpret them.
