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Saturday, September 20, 2008

I would like to share language learning by web 2.0 and how Web 2.0 works for language education. The school is no longer to provide first hand resource of information and knowledge. To get unlimited sources of information is provided by Internet, YouTube and interactive TV, multimedia electronic messaging, digg, Del.icio.us, bookmarker, second life, Wikipedia, blogs, podcasts, etc. The traditional classroom will be gradually access to a multimedia. The students will be able to improve their reading, writing, and communicating by platform for example text, graphics, and moving images, animation, sounds (Nikolov, 1997),
Computer technology, Web 2.0, is one of the huge changes in language teaching. As resources for teachers, web 2.0 enables:

l Sharing and easily changing text-based classroom materials: textbooks, handouts, paper sheets, posters, etc with video or graphics as well as text.

l To share your hot links or information on the Web 2.0 platform.

l To provide motivations, including reward

l To communicate with other teachers and learning what they are learning.

l To create teachers’ community to share different opinions

According to President Clinton’s American’s Technology Literacy Challenge (1996), as he mentioned that teachers have good training or support before they teach in classroom. Before instructors go to the classroom, they are supposed to understand technology otherwise; teachers could not share their knowledge. As we can see, how important for preparing teachers are to use educational technology (Kassen & Higgins, 1997). As we know , these instuctors would like to integrate technology into their own teaching (Lam,2000)

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