Dear Luigi,
many thanks for re-introducing yourself to the list, and for drawing our
attention to the web pages you have constructed at the University of Kent (with
its *thriving* Italian Department!!!). I have just visited your pages, and found
them to be very straightforwardly presented, with a small number of extremely
carefully selected links. May I congratulate you on a job well done!
You raise the issue, however briefly, of how to use the Internet for teaching.
Two things come to mind. The first has to do with regard to Web-based language
lessons. As a supplement to classroom teaching at our real-life, non-electronic
universities, is it simply a matter of telling the students, 'Well, there's this
Web page at Kent, which has links to other places, including some language
lessons; go and do some of the appropriate lessons'? Should we be asking students
to provide printouts of what they do? Is there another way that the exercises
they are requested to do be checked (for accuracy as well as for whether they
have done the work)? Or should we stick with tried and trusted programmes such as
LUISA?
The second has to do with the use of e-mail. Do you -- or does anyone on the list
-- assign students homework which they submit electronically? If so, what
advantages or disadvantages would you experience (or envisage)?
With best wishes, and with thanks,
George
George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
University of Leicester e-mail [log in to unmask]
School of Modern Languages
LEICESTER LE1 7RH UNITED KINGDOM
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