The role of WeQuests in learning a foreign/second language?

  Example of Webquests:
 http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=133833

                            
                                Let’s Party

   The role of the students:

1. Each student has a role in making a list about the party by answering the questions about the place, time, and preparations of the party.
2. Each student will make a brainstorming about birthday parties in order to have a number of ideas to share with her classmate.
3. Students are encouraged to confer with the teacher and take risks during discussion without fear of committing mistakes.
4. Students are encouraged to derive the meanings of the unknown words through word analysis, structural analysis and context. Also, the teacher encourages students to join the discussion and confer as they are able.
5. Students are encouraged to predict as they write. The teacher helps them draw on their understanding and their knowledge of the structure of language.
6. Students are encouraged to answer questions that are at the literal and interpretational levels of comprehension. Also, they should be encouraged to conduct and pose their own questions about the party or birthday.
7. Students are encouraged to produce a report about the party.

                                                             
 The role of the teacher:

1. The teacher acts as a resource for the students. She is to provide students with vocabulary related to birthday parties in order to form sentences about the topic.
2. The teacher acts as an organizer who organizes the work of the students into groups and as individuals. The teacher will ask each student to write his own list.
3. The teacher will monitor the students as they work in groups and answers all of these questions and provide them the vocabulary and language they need.
4. The teacher discusses the topic with the students to activate prior and background knowledge about the topic.
5. The teacher helps students predict the passage from the title, headings (if there are any) and illustrations.
6. The teacher introduces prompts that help students predict the issue and confirm their predictions. To assist students, the teacher should try to link more than one prompt.
7. The teacher motivates students to keep commenting. Difficult points that need to be clarified and the most interesting point (s) should be dealt with whether through context clues or teacher’s clarifications.


Classroom Environment:

1. A classroom with instructional aids such as birthday’s pictures and parties video should be presented to the students to allow them to identify similar concepts.
2. The teacher should allow students to participate freely without any hesitation of fear or committing any errors.
3. The desks should be organized in order for students can work as groups.
4. Also, all students should participate effectively in the class discussions so that all of them interact and benefit from the class.
5. The classroom should be tension-free and all students should be allowed to use the resources they see appropriate.

The terms definitions :

1- Educational technology :
it means using the technology in the education field to facilitate and improve the learning processes .

2- Netiquette:
it is about how should the users of the computer network behavior .

3- LMS:
It is a shortcut of "Learning Management System"  which it describes a software application that is used with specific learning process to create content, monitor student participation, and assess student performance.


4- CAL:
It's a shortcut of "Computer Aided Learning" or "Computer Assisted Learning"  which it means that the students learn subjects through using the computers with subject wise learning materials.


5- E-learning:
E-learning is electronic learning, and this means using a computer and the electronic media in education.

6- D-learning:
D-learning progression describes a progression of English language learning typical of students learning English as an additional language or dialect .

7- Blended learning:
Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path or pace , and this will enhance and extend the learning opportunities.

8- Online learning:
Online learning is a form of distance education in which the student takes courses without attending school or university while the education is delivered over the Internet.