Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The Internet and language in educationRecent research shows that 71% of undergraduates in Oman use the Internet as a source of reading materials (Amer, 2004), a figure that will hardly surprise most teachers in higher education in the Gulf.In addition to acknowledging the irreversibility of this trend, many would probably applaud it as a positive development.The potential of the Internet in language development and other areas of learning has become a cliché.Kenworthy (2004), for example, stresses that through its use, learners are empowered in new ways: by engaging with real language in meaningful contexts, they become active creators instead of passive recipients of ideas.Similarly, El Hindi (1998) and Chafe (1999) propose that the Internet has revolutionized learning by providing opportunities for students to communicate realistically across a wide variety of domains.Chafe echoes a view of many educationalists: "The possibilities *of using the Internet in the classroom+ are endless" (Benefits of Using the Internet/Section A, para.3).
Author: James Moody
Institution: Sultan Qaboos University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1906079403