USING INTERNET RESOURCES IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS

Ary Setya Budhi Ningrum

ICT can help to make process learning especially English language become auspicious. The use of ICT give knowledge also skill for empower students to learning process in their life. ICT is a complement for learning process in a class, and it can also increase learner. Additionally ITC can help the students to understand different cultures and make them more communicative when they speak with others. Ary (2012) “Apart  from modeling  real world  interactions,  ICT supported  learning  provides  learners  the opportunity  to  work  with  people  from  different  cultures,  thereby helping  to enhance  learners’  teaming  and  communicative  skills  as  well  as  their  global awareness”. This opportunity makes the students easier to have relations with their friends and teachers, get many knowledge or information. Furthermore, ICT support learning to make creation in the real world for students. ITC enhance teaching and learning, separation between the different   disciplines   and   between   theory   and   practice   in a classroom.  The students can improve their knowledge and they will be more critical when they want to think by using ICT as their media for learning. Basically the students prefer to explore rather than listen and remember in the class. The students will get much information from ITC when the use it in the class they can more easy to follow a material or subject that teachers give for them. Ary (2012) “ICTs allow learners to explore and discover their ability rather than merely listen and remember”. 

I want to argue that, ITC support a learning process and it can make learning process easier to understand for the students. I agree, students prefer to explore their ways to learning English using ICT then should listen and only remember the teachers. Because, if the students only listen and remember the teachers it can make the students bored with the subjects or materials.

Source:    Thijs,    A.,    et    al. Learning    Through    the    Web    Available    Online

http://www.decidenet.nl/Publications/Web_Based_Learning.pdf   Accessed   31   May 2002