The Internet

David Hardisty

Scott Windeatt

Primary Resource Books for Teachers

Opens up new opportunities for language learning, with the World Wide Web providing access to material on almost any topic.

Scott Windeatt, David Hardisty, David Eastment

The Internet

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The authors would like to thank the many colleagues who have given us inspiration for ideas in this book. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the British Council in Hong Kong in developing some of the material in the book. We should especially like to thank Martin Peacock and Rod Pryde for their support. We would also like to thank Tony Sibbons for his comments and Nina Blackett for her help in finalizing the manuscript.

Appendix B1 (#litres_trial_promo), �Surfing the Web’, was based on a page produced by Charles Kelly which can be found at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/

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To our children:

Christopher, Susan, Philip,

Maria Ana, and Filipe

Foreword

The Internet was undeniably the most radical agent of change in the last quarter of the 20th century. It touches all our lives at many points, and its influence will continue to grow inexorably, and in probably unpredictable ways, in the 21st century. Language pedagogy cannot and should not be immune to the advantages the Internet offers – in information, in resources and in opportunities for global communication.

However, teachers’ reactions to the Internet are typically em