Internet Enhances Students

Internet enhances students’ reading, writing and speaking ability The title of this paper is “Internet enhances students’ reading, writing and speaking ability”. The main aims of this research are to share experiences in overcoming problems in learning English and to raise issues on the roles of Internet in English learning assistance. In this paper how Information technology such as internet can help a great deal both teacher and students in English learning will be discussed. The setting of the learning process is at Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata Bandung, Indonesia (Tourism Institution of Bandung). The teaching technique used in benefiting the internet was by giving essay assignment to the students for oral presentation. There are three main problems encountered by the students of Tourism Institution of Bandung) which will be discussed in this paper, first is the ability of reading, second is writing and the last is speaking. To overcome those problems the students were assigned to make essay for oral presentation. One of the techniques used by the students to gather information was to find information on related materials for the students’ topic for presentation from the internet websites besides reading literature. The findings of the research are 1) the students’ ability of reading, writing and speaking has been improved. 2) Internet assists a great deal in teaching and learning process at our institution. To recommend the future benefits of internet, I insist the Tourism institution of Bandung to broaden the internet facilities and the Tourism Institution students to constantly use the internet facilities.

Acep UR. 08.

Bio Data Name

: Acep Unang Rahayu.

Place/ Date of birth

:Bandung/22-11-1964.

Present Position

: An English lecturer at Bandung Tourism Institute, TELKOM

Management Institute of Bandung, UNINUS of Bandung, UNPAR of Bandung. Institution

:Bandung Tourism Institute.

Academic Qualifications

: I graduated from Bandung Teacher Training Institute (IKIP) in

1990 majoring English Teaching Education. In 1995 I attained my Master’s degree in TESOL from Leeds University of U.K., and in 2007 I attained my PhD.in Linguistics from Universitas Padjadjaran of Bandung. Most Recent Publications

:Reading strategies of graduate and post graduate students of

Bandung Tourism Institute (for Indonesian National Education Department Research), Learning Strategies of Bandung Tourism Institute (Tourism Institute Journal), The Aspectuality progressive of English (Wacana Humaniora Journal of Padjajaran University of Bandung).

By Dr. Acep Unang Rahayu, M.Ed. Bandung Tourism Institute, Indonesia.2008

Internet enhances students’ reading, writing and speaking ability The title of this paper is “Internet enhances students’ reading, writing and speaking ability”. The main aims of this research are to share experiences in overcoming problems in learning English and to raise issues on the roles of Internet in English learning assistance. In this paper how Information technology such as internet can help a great deal both teachers and students in English learning as well as why it is important to use internet will be discussed. The setting of the learning process is at Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata Bandung, Indonesia (Tourism Institution of Bandung). There are three main problems encountered by the students of Tourism Institution of Bandung) which will be discussed in this paper, first is the ability of reading, second is writing and the last is speaking. To overcome those problems, the students in the first place were assigned to make essay for oral presentation. One of the techniques used by the students to gather information was to find information on related materials for the students’ topic for presentation from the internet websites besides literature research. The findings of the research are 1) the students’ ability of reading, writing and speaking has been improved. 2) Internet assists a great deal in teaching and learning process at our institution. To recommend the future benefits of internet, I insist the management and the students of the Bandung Tourism Institution and other institutions to broaden and constantly use the internet facilities.

Bio Data Name

: Acep Unang Rahayu.

Place/ Date of birth

:Bandung/22-11-1964.

Present Position

: An English lecturer at Bandung Tourism Institute, TELKOM Management Institute of Bandung, UNINUS of Bandung, UNPAR of Bandung.

Institution

:Bandung Tourism Institute.

Academic Qualifications

: -Graduate degree in English Teaching Education from Bandung Teacher Training Institute (IKIP) in 1990. -Master’s degree in TESOL from Leeds University of U.K.in 1995. - PhD. Degree in Linguistics from Padjadjaran University of Bandung, in 2007.

Most Recent Publications

:Reading Strategies Of Graduate And Post-Graduate Students of Bandung Tourism Institute (for Indonesian National Education Department Research), Learning Strategies Of Bandung Tourism Institute (Tourism Institute Journal), The Aspectuality Progressive Of English ( Padjadjaran University of Bandung Graduate Research Periodic Publication).