Web-2.0 Ideas for Language Education

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A b s tr a c t The Internet gives great opportunities for teaching and studying English. The Internet for teachers and students can be: a monitor which controls the work during the classes; a source of information that can be found in it; a helper and organizer of real communication with native speakers; a tool with the help of which a teacher can create his own projects, didactic materials and even interactive computer programs. Nowadays, using the Internet, we should distinguish Web–1.0 and Web–2.0 technologies. If the main factor of Web–1.0 is technology itself, then the main factor of Web–2.0 is a human being. And unlike Web–1.0 technologies that are oriented on getting information from the net as a source of it, Web–2.0 is a platform for social collaboration. It helps to transfer the accent from the software onto communication, partnership and cooperation. This very transfer is the main goal of education. So, the article deals with the main characteristics of Web-2.0 and its didactic possibilities for language education among which there are such as openness and simplicity, presence of a great anonymous discrete audience that encourages self-expressing and self-revealing; collaborating and communicating in different social groups; individual production and user generated content; moving from individual intellect to the collective one. The Internet gives great opportunities for teaching and studying English. The Internet for teachers and students can be: a monitor which controls the work during the classes; a source of information that can be found in it; a helper and organizer of real communication with native speakers; a tool with the help of which a teacher can create his own projects, didactic materials and even interactive computer programs. Nowadays, using the Internet, we should distinguish Web–1.0 and Web–2.0 technologies. If the main factor of Web–1.0 is technology itself, then the main factor of Web–2.0 is a human-being. And unlike Web–1.0 technologies that are oriented on getting information from the net as a source of it, Web–2.0 is a platform for social collaboration. It helps to transfer the accent from the software onto communication, partnership and cooperation. This very transfer is the main goal of education.