Internet Usage for Children on Language Learning Materials
Discuss the implications of increased internet usage by children for creators of language learning materials. How should such resource creators adapt their approach for the next generation of learners?
With the proliferation of advanced technology on internet usage, the popularity and accessibility of online learning has increased rapidly for children’s using with various learning materials. Employing computers has become a mainstream in many fields, language learning in particular. Social networking sites, such as Facebook or blog, are good choices to adopt in learning languages. For one thing, Internet is what motivates children most. For another, its widespread prevalence helps get the closest to people’s lives. According to Becta (2008a), the Internet and other new technologies are widely used among young people with different ways to promote informal and formal learning materials in daily life. Accessing into the Internet becomes easy because of diverse options of the usages and learning materials. As for young people, it is essential to choose appropriate language learning materials to help them be autonomous learning. In terms of learning methods, there are different aspects among learning autonomously and lecturing instructingly. Based on the definition provided with Collins English Dictionary, the range age of children can be defined a boy or girl between birth and puberty. While the development of high technology and popularity of the Internet get rising around the world, the uses of computers or mobile equipment have effectively gained importance in many aspects of human lives with no exception in the field of education. The essay will be discussed about how multimedia used, what language learning materials adopted, what learners’ attitudes toward learning accesses including learner-generated and instructor-provided approaches (Chen & Liu, 2012), and the influences and challenges of multimedia learning in the future. There are many abilities that
With the proliferation of advanced technology on internet usage, the popularity and accessibility of online learning has increased rapidly for children’s using with various learning materials. Employing computers has become a mainstream in many fields, language learning in particular. Social networking sites, such as Facebook or blog, are good choices to adopt in learning languages. For one thing, Internet is what motivates children most. For another, its widespread prevalence helps get the closest to people’s lives. According to Becta (2008a), the Internet and other new technologies are widely used among young people with different ways to promote informal and formal learning materials in daily life. Accessing into the Internet becomes easy because of diverse options of the usages and learning materials. As for young people, it is essential to choose appropriate language learning materials to help them be autonomous learning. In terms of learning methods, there are different aspects among learning autonomously and lecturing instructingly. Based on the definition provided with Collins English Dictionary, the range age of children can be defined a boy or girl between birth and puberty. While the development of high technology and popularity of the Internet get rising around the world, the uses of computers or mobile equipment have effectively gained importance in many aspects of human lives with no exception in the field of education. The essay will be discussed about how multimedia used, what language learning materials adopted, what learners’ attitudes toward learning accesses including learner-generated and instructor-provided approaches (Chen & Liu, 2012), and the influences and challenges of multimedia learning in the future. There are many abilities that