Annotation-Internet is all purpose?

In the article written by Koutsogiannis and Mitsikopoulou, Bloch and Lam’s papers were analyzed in three ways. They thought Internet created a “new communicative order” that made students a place different from traditional classroom to learn English. Since Internet became a “contact zone”, there were some things changed and worthy of discussing. Therefore, the two authors divided their discussion of commentary into three parts to show readers how Internet influenced and changed students learning environment.

For one thing, Internet had created an informal learning environment for ESLs to learn English. In Lam’s article she thought that students could improve their proficiency in English through chatting with other students around the world in the chat room. In the process of exchanging information with others, students would learn informal words from there. In my opinion, I think it’s true because my experiences on Internet are similar to what she said in her article. I learned a lot of words I never heard of by chatting with my friends on Internet, through they are informal but funny and colloquial in their daily life. These words are near impossible to me to acquire from classroom.

Then it mentioned about CMC which could be seen as one of global-local dialectics. By using Internet to negotiate with people around the world, we connect different people from different countries. The whole article focused on the advantages about learning English in ways different from traditional ones on Internet. However, no matter how functional Internet was it still had its own limitation. We couldn’t rely on it exceeded or even transform it as the main stream among learning ducts. After all, it was just a mediation which made us acquire or exchange information easily.

Even if I rely on Internet highly while doing my assignment or papers, I don’t think Internet was all-purpose especially in the way of communicating with others or learning new things. When we are learning a new language, we indeed acquired some new words; however, we may not know how to use it well. People on Internet told you how to use not necessary right. Those idioms come from words we learned at our primary learning period of English. Therefore, traditional class teaching still has its own importance that it helped us to cultivate our foundation of English. Then we could learn something new on Internet after we had initial knowledge about it. I think it is the ideal process in learning English.