Professional paper

WEBQUESTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Mateja Žavski Bahč ; Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Maribor, Maribor, Slowenien

Abstract

Every individual living in the 21st century is in private or professional life every day confronted with different media representing a large part of ICT. Even in school education a trend towards an accelerated use of media-based learning content is recognizable. WebQuests appear to be an efficient example for the use of ICT, as they enable the learners to deepen their expertise in the field of ICT. In the present article WebQuests are presented as a learning method in foreign language classroom, integrating different learning techniques into the learning process. In the introduction it is described how the teachers in Germany deal with the mentioned technologies. The following theoretical chapters describe the working method WebQuest more deeply. First, the term is defined exactly. This is followed by a classification of WebQuests. Then the constructivist foundations of the didactic model are presented. This is followed by a discussion of the various phases of work in the process of creating WebQuests. In each phase a concrete example of a national heritage theme is integrated in order to illustrate the different phases. In the next chapter the advantages of this method are listed and explained in more detail. In the conclusion the findings from neuroscience concerning the positive impact of the Internet on the learning process is discussed, endorsing the use of ICT in school education.

Keywords

WebQuests; foreign language learning; ICT

Hrčak ID:

173850

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/173850

Publication date:

30.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: german

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