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”. Themain aims of this research are to share experiences in overcoming problems in learning Englishand to raise issues on the roles of Internet in English learning assistance. In this paper howInformation technology such as internet can help a great deal both teachers and students inEnglish 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 lastis 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 findinformation 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 beenimproved. 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 theBandung Tourism Institution and other institutions to broaden and constantly use the internetfacilities.
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