When I search "Web 2.0" on wikipedia, it defines the term as “web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.” Using the searching engines such as wiki, google and yahoo which is one of the useful tools of Web 2.0, I benefit a lot from the convenience and abundant resources it brings to us.
Web 2.0 allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive receiving of information offered. The goal of Web 2.0 is to share information, save time and enhance communication among people around the world, to help people better understand each other and benefit from all aspects of our lives. Examples of Web 2.0 include Web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites and blogs.
What is the advantage of this technology when introduced into Language Teaching? For example, teachers can apply a teaching blog to upload the syllabus of the lesson, PPT, supplementary reading and listening materials on it; students can post their problems of learning or their advice of the class. In this case, teachers are able to know better the need of different students and make appropriate adjustments in class contents, onclass activities as well as homework to meet different learning styles.Both teachers and students make full use of Web 2.0 technology to teach and learn a foreign language.
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