Internet Project

Internet Project
Introduction
We have organized and carried out the following micro-teaching project as part of a CALL seminar we took at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary. The focus of the seminar was the Internet and its use in the EFL Classroom. The project took place at Neumann Janos Szakkozepiskola (Neumann Janos Vocational School for Computer Science) in May - June, 1997.

We both decided to teach two 45 minute lessons (adding up to a four lesson project), one in a traditional classroom setting and one in the computer lab. The first two lessons were taught by Attila Szucs who took the students to schMOOze University for a virtual "field trip". Robert Ligeti in turn encouraged the students to write short stories about their experiences and publish them on the Internet.

We chose an eleventh-grade mixed ability group of 13 students at pre-intermediate level of English. They had been learning English for three years in five lessons a week. Students had essential computational skills, which was an important pre-requisite of the project. The English knowledge of the students demanded careful grading and selecting of the huge amount of materials available on the Internet.

We would like to thank:

Nora Nemeth, our teacher at ELTE who helped and encouraged us
Judit Gyulavari who offered one of her groups to be experimented on
Neumann Janos Vocational School and
ELTE University for providing access to their computer labs

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