"Ways to learn English using the internet"

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF NORTH KAZAKHSTAN REGION NAMED AFTER GABIT MUSREPOV DISTRICT

MUNICIPAL STATE INSTITUTION

"NOVOISHIMSKAYA KAZAKH SECONDARY SCHOOL»

Ways to learn English using the internet

Performed by: Novoishim Kazakh medium

11-th grade student of the school

Sansyzbai Laula Maksatovna,

Scientific supervisors: Smagulova Altyn Toleybaevna

English teacher

Novoishim village

2020 year

Table of contents

1. Introduction …………………………………………………………..3

2. Main part

1. Аdvantages of English language proficiency and use of computers in foreign language lessons……………………………………… 4

2. The possibilities of the Internet in learning English………………5

3. Advantages of learning English through Internet resources………6

4. Positive and negative aspects of Internet learning...........................7

III A practical part……………………………………………………......8

IV Conclusion………………………………………………………….....9

V Bibliography…………………………………………………………..10

Introduction

Relevance - the topic of this research: "Ways to learn English using a computer and the Internet" is due to the need to use new information technologies and insufficient knowledge of such language programs. In modern society, we are increasingly convinced of the need to master a foreign language due to the growing need for it to get a promising profession, to travel, just to communicate, as the borders between countries are blurred, and we get the opportunity to contact foreigners.

Anyone who has ever used a computer will agree that this device is inherently interactive. Thus, a computer is the most suitable assistant in learning a language that aims to communicate. The computer – based learning system has been developing especially successfully in recent years due to the appearance of CD-ROMs (programs recorded on laser disks) and the popularization of the Internet.

The purpose of the study: to identify and test existing ways of computer language learning.

Tasks:

1) to reveal the variety of forms of computer and software application in mastering the English language;

2) make a list of educational sites in English on the Internet;

3) conduct a survey to identify the opinions of school students about using the computer in the classroom and at home;

4) check the effectiveness of some training programs on your own experience.

The subject of the study was various training programs and sites for learning English on the Internet, and the object was an analysis of their effectiveness.

Hypothesis:"If you use a computer and the Internet in the process of learning a foreign language, you can achieve positive results."

The following methods were used in the work:

1. search for information, selection of programs and sites for learning English;

2. survey to find out effective forms of independent work of students with a computer;

3. independent testing of some sites and programs and analysis of their effectiveness.

1. Theoretical part.

1. The role of computers in our lives.

The life of a modern person who keeps up with the times is unthinkable without computers and digital technologies. Nowadays, almost all spheres of human activity, one way or another, are connected with computers. Undoubtedly, over time, computing devices will improve and will never leave our lives. The computer represents one of the most amazing and significant achievements of human labor and thought. For most of us, the computer is not a luxury, but an essential tool for the home or work environment. The use of a computer as a tool for working with information is very diverse and multifaceted. They can view the electronic library

and find the required information in a few seconds. The computer helps you, teaches you, and entertains you.

Many computers around the world are connected in a special way to computer networks. The most popular network is the Internet. It transmits a large number of technical documents, magazine articles, business letters, poems and prose, opinions and views, games and jokes, in short, everything that can be converted into computer information and sent via communication channels. At the same time, you are guaranteed a fast and error-free exchange of information, quick access to it and its processing.

2.2 advantages of English language proficiency and use of computers in foreign language lessons.

English is the most widely studied language in the world. Most of the world's population speaks English, which makes it possible for people from different countries to communicate. In the modern world, the question is no longer asked: do I need to speak English: everyone communicates in English. Knowledge of English is very important in the modern world, because it is necessary for successful career growth. A specialist who speaks English has the opportunity to receive information from foreign language sources, he can get an international education, he is provided with successful career growth, free communication in any country of the world.

Using a computer in foreign language lessons increases the motivation and cognitive activity of students of all ages, expands their horizons. The most common way to use a computer is through PowerPoint presentations. They are very informative, colorful and interesting.

Electronic textbooks, libraries, and galleries provide invaluable assistance in studying various linguistic and cultural topics. The possibilities of multimedia technologies allow the student to plunge into the virtual world and see what can only be written in a book. Electronic galleries allow you to view the works of great artists without leaving your place, and country libraries allow you to visit all the places on the globe. All this will be useful not only in the classroom, but also in later life.

Now there is a wide variety of modern multimedia textbooks, where you can find enough exercises for students of all ages and different levels of knowledge. A great help in conducting phonetic exercises is provided by the "Professor Higgins" curriculum "English without an accent" and a number of other multimedia textbooks. Sounds, words, phrases and sentences are perceived by students by ear and visually. Students have the opportunity to observe articulation movements on the computer screen and perceive the correct intonation by ear.

Texts for listening on regional topics in middle and high school can be selected from the multimedia textbook "English basic course", which contains about 60 texts on various topics on the history, culture and life of great Britain and the United States. These texts are quite interesting and informative.

The multimedia textbook "English Course"is very easy to use and easy to learn. It has a wide selection of dialogues on a variety of topics, such as "Food", "Shopping", "Football", "At the disco", "Shopping", etc. It is more intended for individual lessons – for those who want to learn basic spoken English faster.

Very informative, rich in vivid role-playing games, movies, and texts, and like both children and adults multimedia programs "OxfordPlatinum "and" English. Path to perfection».

Everyone knows about the educational features of games. Many outstanding teachers rightly drew attention to the effectiveness of games on the learning process. Along with oral games, you can also use the multimedia course "Learning English". There is a wide variety of vocabulary games where you learn the spelling of words, their translations and pronunciation. All games are accompanied by colorful pictures. Although it is recommended for children from 3 to 8 years old, it is also interesting for older students.

The Bridge to English program also has a number of auxiliary reference books: English-Russian dictionary, grammatical and phonetic reference books. The exercises in this program are selected in such a way that they "capture" the student, make him want to know "what will happen next", as well as how many points he will score for performing a particular exercise and what rating the computer will give him. For each type of work, for each completed exercise, the computer loudly announces the rating: "excellent" or "very good", "not bad", "bad»

1. Internet opportunities for learning English.

Now everyone understands that the Internet has enormous information capabilities and no less impressive services. Undoubtedly, it is necessary to use modern e-learning opportunities when teaching and improving the English language. There are many training sites on the Internet that you can visit to receive lectures and lessons in the language; communicate online with a language teacher, with native speakers; participate in group discussions; use a dictionary and grammar; determine your level of knowledge using various language tests; view videos; get access to many electronic publications in English; read comments after articles in English; replenish and expand your vocabulary; have access to up-to-date information that is updated every day; save time and money.

With the development of the Internet, opportunities for learning English have increased significantly. Due to the fact that English is widely spoken in many parts of the world, the Internet space is filled with information in English, which also plays a teaching role. The Internet is considered a technical breakthrough in recent decades, which has had a very strong impact on the development of educational technologies. In addition to the fact that the Internet has a lot of recommendations and educational materials, the technical capabilities of the world wide web provide an opportunity to conduct educational classes directly on the web. Online you can find almost all the teaching materials for learning English, online tests and animated materials. All this is widely used in learning English. The Internet space allows you to immediately put your knowledge of English into practice online. With the help of the Internet, a person can communicate with residents of different countries and representatives of different ethnic and cultural communities, thus not only improving their knowledge of the language, but also improving the skills of perception of English speech among representatives of different peoples. With the help of online communication, a person does not need to simulate a situation or role-playing game, since they are already in live communication. Also, many English teachers recommend using the Internet to manipulate the formulas of speech etiquette, because with live communication, speech etiquette is learned faster, since You find yourself in a real language environment.

We can use the Internet to:

-independently search for information as part of working on the topic of the lesson;

- for self-study, deepening, closing the gap in knowledge, skills;

- for independent preparation for the unified state exam.

In addition, during extracurricular activities, students can work independently to improve their knowledge of a foreign language. For this purpose, there are many different courses available in the networks for different categories of students, designed for self-education or training under the guidance of a teacher.

Participation of children in teleconferences, including online chats, in which students from different countries of the world take part, is an additional, very interesting and useful opportunity for new contacts in real speech practice. So far, this type of language training is not well understood, but it is only a matter of time. In the course of discussions and conversations, there is not only an exchange of information on a particular issue, but also an acquaintance with some elements of another culture.

At the training sites, you can find jobs with which to learn or to repeat various sections of the grammar of the English language, complete vocabulary exercises. The sites describe in detail all the grammatical rules, give practical examples, provide audio tutorials that are very useful for learning spoken English, it is possible to learn English words using associative images.

Thus, using information resources on the Internet, you can achieve the following results:

a) learn to read correctly;

b) improve your pronunciation skills;

C) improve grammar skills;

d) hear and work with authentic audio texts on the Internet;

e) fill up your vocabulary with the vocabulary of modern English, which reflects a certain stage in the development of the culture of the people, social and political structure of society;

f) get acquainted with cultural knowledge, including speech etiquette, speech behavior of different peoples in the context of communication, culture, traditions of the country of the language being studied.

1. Advantages of learning English through Internet resources.

For many people, learning English today is not a simple luxury, but a real necessity. Without English proficiency, it is quite difficult to find a job, climb the career ladder, or go on a tourist trip around Europe. The choice of method for learning a language largely depends on whether you have free time, as well as the desire to learn English in the shortest possible time. Language learning via the Internet has become very popular today. Learning English online has a number of advantages. Let's try to highlight these advantages.

1. there is No need to waste time on the road. Most English learning centers in reality have conditions for mandatory attendance of courses that they provide to their students. Moreover, these centers are usually located at a decent distance, as a result of which you have to spend a lot of time on the road. If you choose to study online, you will not even have to leave your home to get a certain amount of knowledge.

2. Classes can take place at any moment, when you have time. English classes using the Internet can take place at any time convenient for you, regardless of whether it is morning or evening. You just need to submit, for example, an application for English language courses on the site www.englishfirst.ru and study the language. It is worth noting that online language courses must attach a teacher to each of their students, who will strictly control the learning process. First, the teacher regularly checks your assignments and points out your mistakes and shortcomings. In addition, the teacher will explain the material to you, and he will do it as many times as necessary. Do not think that it will be impossible to understand the teacher via the Internet in some cases. Thanks to various virtual communication systems like Skype, you can easily conduct personal communication with your teacher, as a result of which classes will be held even more effectively.

3. It should also be noted the amazing accessibility of learning English online. You can start learning English even if you don't know a single letter of the English alphabet. To determine your level of knowledge, you can use various tests, which are usually free of charge.

4. classes on the Internet are always interesting, colorful, often built in a playful way, which undoubtedly attracts attention and time passes unnoticed, and the benefits are invaluable.

Positive and negative aspects of Internet learning

Internet has become an important part of our life. Nowadays we use it not only for work or entertainment but also in the educational process. There are hundreds resources for people who would like to study English, but all of them have positive and negative sides.

On the one hand, learning English on the Internet has some disadvantages. Firstly, there are often difficulties with the Internet connection. People sometimes have to deal with the information loss due to electricity cut-offs. For example, we use electronic workbooks in our schools and sometimes it is impossible to send your message or you do your home work, but your teacher does not receive the submitted tasks. Secondly, we can come across some mistakes in the information that is changing every day. So you can’t be sure that the information you use is up to date. Thirdly, when we do English courses ourselves with the help of the Internet we do need a lot of organization and motivation. If teachers control and encourage us, our results in studying English can be better. Finally, most our modern devices work on electricity that is why sometimes you cannot use the Internet. A black-out for a couple of hours will result in having to redo what you have already done.

On the other hand, learning English on the Internet has many advantages. To begin with, it is fast to surf the Internet to get everything you need for your education. If you need some text book, dictionary, song or film you can find it in several minutes sitting in front of your monitor. It will save your time and you can have more time for education. Secondly, audio recourses such as training tasks and songs can be easily found on the Internet in big number and variety. Listening to audio tracks will train your ear to understand English words and phrases which often are not easy for some learners. Thirdly, Internet is the best way of distant learning. People, who work long hours and can’t visit different courses to study English and children with disabilities, who can’t go to school, today have got an opportunity to do it at home. To continue, information on the Internet is easily updated. It gives you a chance to get the latest publication of your text book or the last news about courses. Finally, learning English is available almost everywhere today, because there are a lot of gadgets, which you can take with you and connect to the Internet. You can do on-line courses on your laptop during your holiday, read your electronic book in the bus, watch English films on your tablet computer during your travelling or looking up words using dictionary on your mobile phone.

As we see, although there are some disadvantages of learning English in the Internet the advantages far outweigh the drawbacks. The Internet spread our opportunities and gives a chance to begin learning language, to improve your English and to spend time in useful way. By the way the Internet will save your time and money. I am sure that learning English in the Internet is absolutely exciting. Even if you do not choose any online courses you can find plenty of useful abilities that help you in studying process at school, university or at work.

3. A practical part.

3.1. The results of the survey.

109 respondents of grades 5-11 were interviewed. Students were asked to answer 8 questions about their experience using computers and the Internet when learning English.

The first question is "do you use electronic translators, and if so, which ones?» he showed us that the majority of students use translators, and Google translate was the most popular. It is used by about 60 % of respondents.

When asked about the programs used by students to learn a foreign language, several answers were offered. 22 % named polyglot. English in 16 hours, followed by Puzzle-English (11%) and Lingualeo (9%). However, 50 % of respondents do not know any training program. It is worth noting that these are mostly students in grades 5-6. Perhaps they have not yet realized the importance of learning a foreign language. Further, the percentage of students who study English using the Internet and computer programs is growing.

Further, our survey revealed that the most popular activity on the Internet is searching for unfamiliar words (49 %), that is, using an online dictionary. 22% of respondents use the web to prepare homework, while only 18% use it to search for additional information. At the same time, about half of the respondents are going to associate their further studies at the University with a foreign language and consider English the language of the planet.

49% of students agree that computers and the Internet make learning a foreign language more interesting and 79% say that computers and the Internet help enrich the vocabulary of a foreign language. 55% believe that computer programs help to learn grammar of a foreign language.

From all the above we can conclude that many students Internet helps not only to homework, but to improve your vocabulary, learn grammar, improving language proficiency, that is, it helps to accelerate the process of language acquisition. This confirms our hypothesis.

3.2. Analysis of educational Internet sites.

I have researched several dozen sites that can help you learn and improve your English. The training sites we studied have sections for practicing pronunciation, idioms, slang, American English, dictation, and pronunciation analysis. Various grammar and lexical tests of various levels of complexity are offered to help improve the level of English. We have identified three grammar and vocabulary tests of various levels of complexity: elementary ,lower-intermediate ,and intermediate.

Most popular language learning sites:

1.BBC Russian- Learning English.The site offers English for various cases, tests, and English videos (radio reports by BBC correspondents). BBC world Service - provides an opportunity not only to read, but also to listen to news in many languages and turn the classroom into a "news Agency".

2.Lingualeo.ru.Website lingualeo.ru it is intended primarily for those who want to improve the skills of listening to English,reading and correct pronunciation.It is also very useful for those who want to quickly expand their vocabulary.

3. City Net makes it possible to travel to different countries, visiting parks, monuments and any other attractions. Here you can find everything about your chosen country - from photos of monuments to a full report on natural resources and art, in the language you are studying.

4. America’s homepage. Travel to States and cities, get acquainted with the history, culture, and lifestyle of Americans.

5. the school curriculum has the topic "pen PAL", and I learned that you can find pen Pals using the following algorithm: contact TESL-L (computer-assisted language learning sub-branch istserv @ cunyvm. cuny. Edu /listserv @ cunyvm. bitnet)or TESLK-(listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu);

6. The website of Lucent Technologies, the organizational unit Bell Labs allows you to hear the sound of any phrase in a foreign language. It has developed a speech synthesizer that turns printed text into sound. On the site http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/index.htmlможно choose one of seven languages – English.

But in addition to these sites, we found many sites that provide educational services for learning a foreign language. For example, the video English lessons for kids "English with piggy and Stepashka" is very popular among primary school students.

3.3. Description of your own experience using the Internet when learning English.

To find out if the various ways of learning a language available to everyone on the Internet help, I decided to try out a few and choose the one that will be most convenient and easy to use.

I decided to check out the online lessons "polyglot. Foreign language in 16 hours." at first I didn't believe it and I was very surprised that these lessons can help you learn the language at a conversational level for a short time, but after the first lesson I realized that this is possible, since the man who teaches people gives all the reference tables of the use of a considerable number of tenses of the English language, and there is also a clear explanation of all the recorded material. I made progress quickly enough. I concluded that for those who need to learn to understand a non-native language in a short time and learn to formulate everyday phrases, these lessons, which do not take much time, can help. However, for those who are going to connect their life with learning languages, this is not enough.

Next, I downloaded the app for learning English "Duolingo" to my phone, because it is available to everyone, since this program can be downloaded from the Play Store to any phone with Internet access. This program did not give tangible results even after quite a long time of use. This app does not explain how, for example, to correctly change words in the comparative and superlative degrees, and this is important, and there is nothing to learn the correct use of tenses.

I think that "Duolingo" can help You learn new words and their spelling without explanation, but by memorizing, but the good thing is that You can learn the correct pronunciation of words that you haven't heard before. Thus, you can use this program to increase your vocabulary, if you already have knowledge of grammar.

The next program I decided to try out was Lingualeo. Probably, many people have read about this program on the Internet or heard from their friends, because now it is the most common method of learning a foreign language among young people. This program did not upset me, but even pleased me with its simplicity, but at the same time efficiency, because this application has all the explanations and a lot of practice. It will clearly help those people who want to improve their knowledge, but for learning from scratch, the most suitable is not it, but the online lessons I mentioned earlier.

Conclusion: the programs I have studied can help you learn a language starting from the zero level, and for the sake of additional development, vocabulary replenishment for those who already have certain communication skills. The most significant were the online lessons "polyglot. Foreign language in 16 hours", and almost useless program, in my opinion, was the application "Duolingo".

4. Conclusion.

Based on the study, we can draw the following conclusions:

1. we were able to learn from the results of a survey and study of information on the Internet that a foreign language is very popular in the modern world both for General development and for mastering various professions and communicating with people. Therefore, many programs related to language learning, as well as grammar learning, are becoming the most popular among people in the modern world.

2. our research confirms the variety of features of computer language learning: multimedia textbooks, where you can find enough exercises for students of all ages and different levels of knowledge, training programs "Professor Higgins", "English without accent", multimedia programs "Oxford Platinum" and "English. The path to perfection" , etc., watching movies, using training programs on the Internet, and so on.

3. research has shown that the use of computer technology is not only a source of pleasure, but first of all, it is a way to get information. When choosing computer programs, children prefer not gaming computer programs, but rather educational and training computer programs. This means that children are interested in knowing a foreign language, have skills in various computer programs, create computer presentations, and communicate on the Internet.

The hypothesis put forward at the beginning of our study: "If you use a computer and the Internet in the process of learning a foreign language, you can achieve positive results" was confirmed, as evidenced by the survey data and your own experience of using training programs. But Internet technologies will never replace live communication between a teacher and a student. Thus, in this age of high technology, computers play a huge role in learning English, as there is an interesting and useful opportunity for new contacts in real speech practice.<