The Use of enciclomedia and web quest in teaching english as a foreign language (TEFL) in primary school.

Abstract

Enciclomedia and the advantages of using the Internet to do activities for an English class are convenient when working in schools where the facilities allow the use of this technology. Technology is a fundamental tool around the world these days; the use of new technology represents an important innovation because it facilitates and enriches daily work in the employment, education, informative, culture, and social areasThe Mexican educational system establishes, in a legal and curricular framework, a teaching model that intends to adapt teaching to social needs, in other words, a teaching pattern that caters for a diversity of learners according to the Instituto Nacional para la Evaluación de la Educación (INEE, 2008). Due to these changes made during 2006-2007 through an Excale data base it became evident that language and communication were needed to be reformed altogether with mathematical thinking. To this end, different measures have been taken mainly regarding the distribution of the contents and learners. In the field of Education, technology has tools to be used by the teacher, for example from the use of a tape recorder to more sophisticated electronic devices such as computers, projectors and the internet. Internet offers a never ending sort of resources which constitutes a challenge for a customary user, so that he or she could increases the abilities for a suitable searching in a precise mode and with effective and useful information, thus the Internet could become an important tool for the classroom gathering required data. For this to happen it is important that teachers are highly skilful first in order to instruct students to use a search engine to accomplish an assignment and, secondly, to develop a good research work by the end of the course with the right indications presented by the teacher.