Internet-Based Reading

Brandl,K.(2002) Integrating Internet-based reading materials into the foregin language:curriculum:From teacher-to-student-centred approaches. http://llt.msu.edu/vol6num3/brandl/default.html

This article discusses about the pro and con about the internet- based reading. There are three approaches
Teacher-Determined lessons
The teacher prescreens and selects reading materials or cultural readings from Internet-based or other resources, designs comprehension activities, and makes them available through his/her Web page. Students' responses to reading tasks are limited by the capacity of authoring packages, which at its best allow for automatic tailoring of true/false, matching, or multi-choice answers.
Teacher-Facilitated lessons
The instructor provides a set of learning tasks that engage the learners in exploring reading materials in their authentic environments. The instructor facilitates the student’s reading process and guides the learners to explore a variety of preselected resources, providing a clear goal to be accomplished by students. In this method, student can get extra knowledge from the internet. Student and teacher will have more extra topics to discuss.
Learner-Determined Lessons
The learners determine the topics, reading materials and the way they go about exploring the reading themselves. In this method, student can choose their topic depend on their hobby,sometimes they will feel confused because they don't know how to choose the good topic.In my opinion, three of the principles have advantages and disadvantages. I prefer teacher-facilitated most because student gather informations from everywhere and student will have an ability to select a good article.When you are in the society, your superior only gives you the scope of the project and they never direct you how to accomplish it. As Teacher- Determined lessons, student will lose the chance of exposing the external world.