INTEGRATING INTERNET-BASED READING MATERIALS INTO THE FL CURRICULUM: FROM TEACHER- TO STUDENT-CENTERED APPROACHES.

  Klaus, B. (2002). Integrating Internet-Based Reading Materials into the Foreign Language Curriculum: From     Teacher- to Student-Centered Approaches. Language, Learning & Technology, 6.

Author Dr. Klaus Brandl is an applied linguist and a specialist in foreign language pedagogy, Computer Assisted Language Learning.

In his article focuses on the study of authentic materials available on the WWW in primary visual and verbal/textual modes. Provides guidance to teachers & curriculum developers by describing 3 approaches to integrating Internet-based reading materials into a FL curriculum. It concentrates on the interpretive approach of communication, reading skills, and writing. The author presents three different approaches to using Internet-based resources; the article also describes the strengths & challenges of each approach, discusses the basis for each design based on experimental and hypothetical research, and includes a short description of technological skills involved. The article concludes with a list of procedures to offer further guidance to help in the implementation of Internet-based (IB) lessons. There is many big ideas came along the article for instance; the difference between lesson types within each approach, the proposal of three different types of lesson designs to integrate Internet-based resources into a FLL curriculum. It represent s  a good guide for teacher of foreign language in thway how they can adopt the better method when it comes to integrating  internet reading materials into a FL curriculum.