[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 5 | February 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Imagine your students practicing their English by playing the role of film critic on movie-review websites like Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes. com) … or product reviewer on online shopping sites like Amazon (amazon.com) … or reporter on digital storytelling sites like Storify (storify. com).
On the Internet, students of English have an authentic context in which to share their lives through expressive narrative and eye-catching imagery on social media organizers like Pinterest (pinterest.com). Students can, for instance, compare and contrast global perspectives on current events or public figures using web analytics tools like Google Trends (google.com/trends), survey “friends” with a polling application on social networking sites like Facebook (facebook.com), and report their findings on multimedia presentation sites such as Prezi (prezi.com) or YouTube (youtube.com). Engaging practices of this sort are entirely feasible—as long as