8. What can the World Wide Web offer ESL/EFL teachers?

World Wide Web offers a variety of resources not only for ESL/EFL teachers, but also for students. World Wide Web is another way to describe the Internet. Internet has a lot of useful information for teachers. First of all, if a teacher is looking for different warm ups, ice breakers, or time fillers to carry out in the classroom, he can find many different options on the internet. Second, teachers can find many ideas to improve their classes such as teaching strategies, teaching methodology, activities, e-books, blogs, wikis, and so on.  Moreover, teachers can find an amount of different exercises for their students to improve their listening, reading, or writing skills. Teachers can involve students in technology since they are very familiar with it.

Furthermore, EFL students can take advantage of the web and learn by themselves. They can find a lot of exercises to practice their English skills. For instance, they can listen to podcasts to practice their listening skill. They can practice fill in the blank exercises, look for idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, new structures, vocabulary, and so forth. This blog is a clear example on how teachers can use technology to involve students into using web. While writing blog entries, students improve their writing skills.

To summarize, World Wide Web is very useful for EFL /ESL teachers since it offers a big amount of resources to get good ideas for teaching. For example, it offers e-books, blogs, wikis, activities, and so on. In the same way, it is useful for students learning a foreign language since they can find a lot of English exercises to improve their macro skills.