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Enhancing Language Learning Through Real-Time Internet Communication

This article explores innovative ways to connect teachers, learners, and native speakers using synchronous internet communication tools. It discusses various platforms including web chat, IRC, and MUDs, highlighting their potential for authentic interaction. While these tools can facilitate social interactions and role-playing games, challenges such as language difficulty and delayed responses are also noted. As technology advances, educators must adapt to these changes, embracing lifelong and just-in-time learning approaches for effective distance education.

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Enhancing Language Learning Through Real-Time Internet Communication

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  1. Teaching Language Using Real-Time Internet Communication By Edna Hastings & Kyunghee Cho

  2. Main Point • Bringing teachers, learners, and native speakers together in intense, authentic interaction. • By using synchronous internet communication.

  3. What’s available for use.Description of the tools & how to find them • Web chat • IRC (Internet Relay Chat) • MUD, MOO, WOO, GMUK

  4. Web Chat • Easy, requires only a Web browser (URL, a Web address). • Disadvantages: not designed for the learner, unpleasant language, delayed reading of the conversation • http://pages.wbs.net/ • http://chat.yahoo.com

  5. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) • A multi-user, multi-channel on a network • Need an IRC program (ex. mIRC) • Connected servers • http://geocities.com/~mirc/

  6. MUD, MOO, WOO, GMUKs

  7. USES 1.Social Interaction :creative & authentic audience 2.Games :on-line role- playing games TEACHER’S NEW ROLE 1.Facilitator, guide & Librarian 2. Provides students with opportunities to use the target language Pedagogical issues

  8. A look into the future • Technology will continue to develop. • Educators need to keep up. • Paradigm shift is taking place in education. • lifelong learning • just-in-time learning • distance education

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