Internet for Writing Instruction
Teaching writing skill is seen as equally important as teaching other skills in language learning due to its importance in students’ future. Many approaches have been developed to gain the successful result of teaching writing skill, and many mediums are designed to help the approaches work better. The dawning of information and communication technology (ICT) has made more insights in the effort of creating the mediums. Thus, the topic on the use of ICT in teaching writing will be discussed in this essay. Particularly, the issue will discuss mainly about the use of internet technology in teaching writing genre (description text and review text) and giving real audience and purpose for better writing.
The idea of using information and communication technology (ICT) is not new for many teachers, but they still have to adapt with the practice. In particular, teachers who are categorized by Marc Prensky (2001) as digital immigrant would have difficulties in integrating the ICT since they are not born in digital era. However, the effort to find the best approach to facilitate better writing instruction has involved the computer, internet, and the invention of variety of internet program that is used in language learning as an important element (white, 1993; Brian, 2004 as cited in Simsek 2009). Based on that, the use of ICT, in this case internet, can be helpful to make better writing instruction. Some teachers who are digital native or unaccustomed to use the internet may feel insecure, but the development of technology has proven effective used in teaching, and there has been good success with the idea of integrating internet with the teaching as stated by Krajka (2000). (lebih…)
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