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1、ElectronicTextandTeachingEnglishasaSecondLanguage Abstract:Electronictextteachingrepresentsoneofmanyresourcesthatarebeingintegratedintoinstructionalactivities,featuressuchaspublicness,democratization,anchoredreferents,andmalleabilityofE-textstronglysupportsuchactivity.Itprovidesnovel,e
2、mpoweringtoolsforteachersandlearnersaswellasaccompanyingformsofconstructive,literacy-centereddiscourse;discoursethatisinkeepingwiththeneedsandgoalsofthesecondlanguageandliteracylearner. Keyword:ElectronicText;TeachingEnglishasaSecondLanguage 1Introduction ProvidingopportunitiesforESL
3、learnerstodevelopEnglishlanguageandliteracyskillsisacontinualchallengeandconcernforschools.Recentinterestintechnologies1asameansofsupportinglanguagedevelopmenthasbroughtESLteachingprofessionalsaroundthecountrytoincludecomputers,multimedia,andtelecommunicationsastoolsforinstruction. 2Go
4、alsandProcedureofTeachingEnglishasaSecondLanguageInstruction8 TheESLprofessional’smajorconcernistodesignandimplementactivitiesthatguidelearnerstoattendtothelinguisticformsandmeaningofcontent.Atthesametimetheyencouragethedevelopmentofappropriatelinguisticandcognitivestrategiesforunderst
5、andingandproduction.Abalancedfocusonformandmeaningisparticularlycriticalforthispopulation. 3ElectronicTexts Weusetheterm‘technologies’torefertocomputers,multimedia,andtelecommunications. Theterm‘electronictexts’referstoanyinformationdisplayedelectronicallyonacomputerscreen. Electron
6、ictexts(e-texts),byvirtueoftheiruniquecharacteristics,playapotentiallypowerfulroleinschool-basedTESLcontextsandcanbeviewedasagoodvenueforliteracyactivitiesinclassrooms.Theycanalsoserveasrichcontextsfortheactivenegotiationofmeaningbystudentsinneedofthiskindoflinguistic/cognitiveengagemen
7、t.E-textsconsistofon-screeninformation(visual,textual,andaural)withincomputer,multimedia,and/ortelecommunicationsenvironments.Theyarewhatpeoplefromallwalksoflife,especiallyschool-agechildren,arebecomingaccustomedtoencountering,reading,manipulating,andproducingaspartofdailyactiv