Why is the World Wide Web useful to language teachers and learners?
Because the World Wide Web has now become the major delivery medium for text, graphics, sound as well as video with thousands of businesses, universities, government departments and individuals setting up their own pages, it is an invaluable source of authentic materials for language teachers and learners. Although the World Wide Web was dominated by English-language Web sites in its early years, more and more material is being made available in other languages, including most, if not all, of the languages currently taught in universities throughout the UK. From the relative comfort of your computer you can access thousands of pages of text and graphics, and, if you have a computer with the right specification, sound and moving images from all over the world. 1.3. What can you do on the World Wide Web? There are a number of particularly relevant activities for language teachers and learners possible on the World Wide Web: i. research information on a topic of your choice using a search
