The Role of Webquest for Learning English As A Foreign

 

Since the Internet become popular and technology become part of the  education . A new tool has recently appeared to make teaching very interesting and challenging , this tool has changed the idea of teaching from traditional  to online teaching,  from doing homework on paper to facing the computer doing some searching and analyzing, from receptive learner to more productive and creative learner.   It’s a web quest

What a Web quest?

It was defined by Bernie Dodge as " An inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing.”. In simple word, it assign students for gathering information about certain topic, web quest usually a group of activity with a end  goal of creating a document or summarized the information you collected. It takes different form of writing a report, giving a presentation, fill out a questionnaire or creating a web site. The  web quest structured into component:

Introduction

Task

Process

Evaluation

Conclusion

Web quest engage student into the activity in very smooth and interesting way. It let them finish the task with challenged and competent feeling. It gives student very good opportunity to work with group and comes with very helpful learning experience.

In Saudi, they miss this effective way of teaching, I hope to use it with my student in future, because it is good way to provide information  that long lasting in students' mind