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Using the Internet to teach English for academic purposes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Hilary Nesi
Hilary Nesi
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
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Abstract

The paper describes how networked self-access EAP materials have been developed at Warwick University since 1992. The current package of materials (The CELTE Self-Access Centre) can be freely accessed from the World Wide Web, and aims to provide some basic training in Information Technology alongside more conventional language and study skills activities. Problems of development and distribution are discussed, including the resistance of those EAP practitioners who have little experience of the Internet in an educational context, and the unwillingness of users to interact with unknown task setters.

Type
Selected Papers
Information
ReCALL , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1998 , pp. 109 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1998

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