2007年6月21日 星期四

Content-based Instruction

Goal:
CNN is definitely a content-based website, for it provides daily world-wide news. The website includes every kind of important news that happened in the world for people to explore and examine. The important issue has many good articles and websites connected with. Learning English writing and reading skill, the website offers a lot of thoughts-provoking materials for training.
Presentation:
The website has many category links, such as politics, sports, law, health, analysis, entertainment, travel, education etc.,every link has included many relative in-depth links. The design of the website is simple and people can quickly get to know how to read the webpages though the content of the articles included are hard and require readers' basic or even advanced reading skill. Everyone can almost get what he or she wants to know of the world without worrying the quality of the news, and can develop new perspective of watching news. The website aims at educating and brainstorming purposes. As a content-based website, fewer other website can do better than CNN.
Outcome:
The reader may need to past the basic language learning level to get to advanced level for the difficult content requires other cultural training and understanding. This is second level of learing foreign language for learning foreign language is very complicated especially in culture aspect.
Approriateness:
As a college student, CNN is a recomended website for English reading training and writing skill. High school student may need to have higher ability of vocabulary to read the CNN articles. In short, this website is more available for adults.

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