Using the Internet for Extensive Reading

Beverly Derewianka
University of Wollongong, Australia

Group 6
Angelia Debora (F1022151075) 1

Elly Kurniawati (F1022151067)

Mira Apriliyanti (F1022151043)
Novelpy Vhea R.D (F1022151029)
Shella Putri (F1022151053)
Sukma Herawati (F1022151009)
Widia Anggriani (F1022151013)
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 2.
Chatrooms
Definition of chatrooms
Chat room is a Web Internet relay MOO
site, part of a Web chat (IRC) In a moo you can
site, or part of an One service where move around a
online service such you can sign on at simulated
as America Online, any time of the day environment,
that provides a and find a number meeting people in 4
venue for of people from all different ‘rooms’,
communities of over the world playing games,
users with a chatting together. creating different
common interest whatever one identities, and then
to communicate in person writes is moving on to
real time. immediately another.
transmitted to
computers of all
the other
participant.
To participate in schMOOze University, use the telnet
command when you are connected, type in connect guest
and then use one the following of :
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@who : gives a list who is online
@join xxx:put you in the same room as a particular person
@go xxx :moves to another place of room
look :shows you the description of your place or room
Say xxx:sent your message to everyone on the Moo
@quit : exits the Moo
Help: gives further information on Moo commands
To participate in schMOOze University, use the telnet
command when you are connected, type in connect guest
and then use one the following of :
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@who : gives a list who is online
@join xxx:put you in the same room as a particular person
@go xxx :moves to another place of room
look :shows you the description of your place or room
Say xxx:sent your message to everyone on the Moo
@quit : exits the Moo
Help: gives further information on Moo commands
 Learning Networks
Learning networks can Learning networks can
be set up by students be set up with teachers
together with colleagues from other subject
in other school. areas (e.g., history or 7

geography) so that
students will be
exposed to a range of
registers across the
curriculum.
 4.
Discussion
Lists
Discussion Lists
Another way to To find out more
foster extensive about subscribing to
reading is to the major ESOL
encourage students discussion list – 9

to join international Student Lists (SL-

students discussion Lists) – contact the
lists. following address :
trobb@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp
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Discussion Lists

Generally, teacher register the whole class and

participate in a special discussion list for teachers
about way of using the Student Lists.
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Announce-sl@latrobe.edu.au
 5.
Newsgroups
 Definition of Newsgroup

A newsgroup is an internet site where people can put

information and opinions about a particular subject. So,
they can be read by everyone who looks at the site.
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The students have to log into whichever group they
are interested in at the time. They can then browse
through the postings at their leisure, following certain
threads as other users initiate and respond to each
others’ postings on a certain topic.
 Definition of Newsgroup

The newsgroups have not been established specifically for

language learners, they are used by millions of people
every day around the world to exchange views and
information. 14

To access these newsgroups, you will need a newsbrowser,

which will make available your internet provider’s listing of
groups.
 6.
World Wide
Web
World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) is combination of all

resources and users on the Internet that are using the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP (Hypertext
Transfer Protocol) is the set of rules for transferring 16

files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other

multimedia files) on the World Wide Web. As soon as a
Web user opens their Web browser, the user is indirectly
making use of HTTP.
World Wide Web

The world wide web provides another source of reading

material. The web consist of a vast number of sites (e.g.,
universities, schools, businesses, individuals) which
have created their own home pages with a particular 17

address (called a URL). Once we have an address, we

enter it into a ‘browser’ such as Netscape or Lynx.
World Wide Web

We are then able to navigate our way around the

particular site which we have selected. Each home page
usually begins with more general information. If we want
to follow up on a particular topic or area whic has been 18

mentioned, we need to simply click on the highlighted

words and another page will open which provides
further information on that topic. This way we can
wander around the site, selecting those topics of
particular interest, reading the information, looking at
any accompanying illustrations, diagrams, photos or
animated sequences and even watching related
videoclips.
World Wide Web

Web browser
(Netscape)
Place your screenshot here
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Address : https://www.english-4u.de/ ( Learning English site )

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 World Wide Web
Some useful WWW sited for extensive reading in ESL/EFL are as follows :
The Electronic Library
http://www.books.com/scripts/lib.exe
Electronics books (ebooks) site. There are thousands of titles in a variety
of subject areas which are made available to the public free of
charge. These ebooks include such topics as humour, non-
fiction,cooking,games and hobbies. 21

The English Server

http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/
This is a co-operative managed by students, faculty and staff at Carnegie
Mellon University. It offers 10000 texts in many disciplines (fiction,
film and television, literacy and education, poetry, multimedia,
recipes, the weather). It tends to be more suited to older students
and adults
 World Wide Web
Fiction from the English Server
http://english-www.hss.csmu.edu/fiction/
Collections of novels and short stories. Some suitable for younger
learners (e.g., Alice in Wonderland) but more adult-oriented.
The E-Mail Keypal Connection
http://www.comenius.com/keypal.index.html
Keypal is a person with whom one becomes friendly by exchanging emails. 22
Users can register to be put in touch with keypals throughout the
world.
Project Gutenberg
http://med-amsa.bu.edu/Gutenberg/Welcome.html
One of the older and larger collections, divided into ‘light literature’, heavy
literature’, and ‘references’. The Light Literature collection includes
titles such as Aladdin, Old Indian Legends, Black Beauty, Treasure
Island, The Secret Garden, Tarzan of the Apes.
 World Wide Web
The On-Line Books Page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html
Another collections of general on-line texts in both English and other
languages (mainly European): religion, geography, music, English
Language,etc.
Reading Resources for ESL/EFL
http://auc-acs.eg/www/eli/read.html 23
This site offers news (including a news reader for learners of English),
books for independent reading (adventure, biograpgies, classics,
ethnic, folktales, fantasy, horror, science fiction, short fictions),
poetry, ‘fun stuff’, and much more.
The children’s Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.cal~dkbrown/index/html
More suitable for young learners, this site offers such resources as
folklore, myths, classics, contemporary stories, songs and poetry,
Readers’ Thearter, stories written by children, reviews and a
discussion group.
 World Wide Web
The ESL Loop:
http://math.unr.edu/linguistics/esloop/esloop.html
A collection of sites relevant to English language teaching and learning on
the web. Sites include ‘The ESL Cyberschool’, ‘English On-Line’, ‘Free
EFL Materials to Download’, ‘Virtual English: Where authentic
material meets ESL’

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Note: Not all sites are available on all servers and that at times certain
sites will be unavailable or may even have closed down. And once we
get into a few relevant sites, however , we will quickly be able to
access other related sites and build up our own list of ‘favourites’
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Advantages
and Drawbacks
Advantages and Drawbacks
There are obvious benefits in using the internet for extensive reading
(and writing) and some of this material is easily understood by
beginner/intermediate level students particularly they more spoken-
like :
-posting on the discussion groups
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Designed particularly for ESL/EFL learners

Advantages and Drawbacks
There is the motivation to ‘surf the internet’ and explore areas of
personal interest. As well as to participate in task-based, problem
solving projects and activities with peers from around the world.
Involvement is not restrected to school hours, but can take any time
of the day

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Students who might be reluctant in face-to-face situations feel freer
to interact through reading and writing on the internet. They are
anonymous and can create new identities without anxieties over
gender, athnicity, appearences,pronounciation,age and so on. They
dont have to resond on the spot, as in the spoken interaction, but
have a bit of time to compose an answer.

And once the students have access to the internet, the text
resources are very inexpensive (if not free) even though logging into
the net itself might incur a fee
 Advantages and Drawbacks
The drawbacks

School
most schools are not adequately equipped with computers,
especially those set up to allow student access to the internet

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Students and
Teachers many students and teachers are not yet comfortable
using the internet, and may baulk at the perceived complexity of it
and the volume of material available. In terms of text resources, it is
time –consuming to monitor the level of difficulty and students might
feel overwhelmed by much of the native speaker level material
Thank you!
Any questions?

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