The role of WebQuests in learning a foreign/second language

Webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet. WebQuests increase student motivation. When students are motivated, they are likely to put in more effort, and their minds are more alert and ready to make connections.

The role of the teacher is to design a good topic wih introduction and task to help students to understand the topic correctly and facilitator the process.Teachers benefit from WebQuests in a number of ways. For example, rubrics for each project and Web resource addresses are provided, authentic learning occurs, ideas for projects are supplies, and learning is fun for students while they integrate technology. While the role of the student is to learn what is a WebQuest and how to use it and benefit frome it and being active participants. Classroom environment should be enjoyable and interesting for students. 

Students should be taught to think logically, analyze and compare, question and evaluate. Critical thinking is using by graphic organisers , scaffolding and stating the processes to be developed like compare, write a summary,analyze, etc. WebQuests allow students to complete authentic projects and use technology to find and present information and, at the same time, alleviate some of the barriers teachers may find in their attempt to work in the confines of project-based learning. Collaborative learning on the webquest is important and make a students get more knowledge. learning through WebQuest activities can be a good means of collaboration among students in a class. Multiple teams in a class can be working on the same question that the WebQuest poses. However, the nature of collaboration can lead to different outcomes, depending on the interactions among the group members.

In the future as an EFL teacher, I will use a WebQuest with my students because it is easy for me to create a task and it is very helpful and useful for students. WebQuest ingage students to learn and get more knowledge. It has advantages for students and teachers. 

Evaluating Lanternfish Website

Lanternfish ESL purpose is to bring printable quality resources to teachers and parents. This website include Jobs, Worksheets, and Flashcards for the ESL and TEFL Teacher. It represents like word skills game, reading puzzle packet, alphabet worksheet and spring worksheets. The website include Microsoft word. And yes it is effective to both teachers and students. The website is interesting by providing songs, worksheets, creative writing, crosswords and flash cards. The website is helpful and useful for improve speaking, writing, reading, and writing. The website is difficult to use because it's not organaized. The font text's is differ and not spaced properatialy. The topics and links are confusing and not appear well to students and teachers. There is much of advertisements that make you annoying and not focused to what you want. The website is includes much of practices and worksheets but the problem is thatthat it's notnot organised properly well for learners. Absolutely, the website is going to be good whenwhen the information got organised well. The Site was created by several contributors are Chris Gunn who is a web and materials designer , Stephen Gordon who is an editor and content creator specialized in business English resource materials , Cam lirette; an editor and content creator currently teaching at a university in Korea, Thomas lavelle; a writer and content director currently teaching at a niversity in the United States. This sites does not offer any sources about the information, only put { gunnchris ( AT ) bogglesworldesl.com} For questions about Web Site. any information collected on this site by Lanternfish ESL is of a non-personal nature. Boggle'sWorld does not store or keep personal information on record but does keep aggregate numbers on the number of visitors, method of arriving at bogglesworldesl.com, location by region, servers, monitor type and operating systems. To use some sections of the discussion forum, however, users may be required to provide some personal information as listed in the profile below. The information collected in registration will not be used for any purposes other than administering the board and will never be given or sold to third parties under any circumstance. However, there is always a security risk from criminal parties hacking into the MY SQL database that we use. The information and designs of website are not clear and confused for learners. It is difficult to use because if you want to search for something on the site, you will not find a research bar. The font of texts are different and the graphics are not distracting. The website shape's looked like an old fashioned. The topics and links are confusing to learners because it have the same color. The website is not require any plog-ins and it is easy to load without any problems and users doesn't need to pay a fee or type in personal information before using the site.  Website's Title not appropriate with its purpose. The content of The site difficult for reader specially children . Lanternfish contains great number of information in different areas. The information usually update but some topic not. Graphics on the site are appropriate to the content. Some subjects do not meet the needs of ESL, because it dependent to other language. The skills required to use the sites are easy and appropriately challenging for its intended audience.