Internet-based technology helps language learning

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In the article, the author mentioned that how the Internet-based technology could improve children’s listening and the ability of language comprehension. Listening comprehension ability plays a vital role in language learning. According to the study, it is proficient and useful for children to learn a foreign language if the website was designed well organized. That would increase the efficiency of children’s learning.

Listening is originally the basic aspect of learning foreign language. It is not merely listening, when the learner is listening something, they must concentrate on the sounds for these are not like text record that can offer the transcripts or record when listening. So the learners must do thinking and organize the information that just came into their mind.

When the training skills combined with the development of Internet, which became welfare for learners. The learners could easily get the materials they want and would be tested soon after they finished the listening. The questions would evaluate how much they can understand the content.

In primary stage of learning, the texts would tend to be easier tales. Even the children have not learned that much vocabulary; the topics would attract them to keep listening, so that the learners would absorb lots of new concepts unconsciously. Thanks to the promotion of Internet, materials could be available anywhere and anytime, that broke the limitation of learning.
However there is still something imperfectly on Internet-based learning. The contexts might not suit every learner. The speed of reading the contexts and the technology problems are such difficulties the learners would meet.