How to use email
Ø Email allows teacher to keep in touch with other teachers around the world via mailing list and discussion groups, thus helping in teacher’s professional development.
Ø Email allows teacher to communicate with the learners outside the classroom.
Ø Email can be used in outside class time
Ø Reading and writing emails either in or outside class time give a learner more exposure to the target language, and interaction is real in the sense that learners are writing to real people using a real medium.
Ø Email is the technology that is relatively simple to use and most of the learners are familiar with it.
§ Communicative skills
It is good idea to remind learners that there are levels of formality in email writing. These are rules for effective online communication:
ü Not using only capital letters, which is perceived as shouting online.
ü Being sure to respect others’ opinion
ü Avoiding flaming
ü Make sure that files sent as email attachments are not too large, as the person receiving the email may not be able to download them.
§ Technical skills
ü Apart from basic word processing and typing skill, learners will need to have an email account. Many learners will already have a personal or work email account that they will be willing to use for their language classwork, but others may need help with setting up new email account.
ü Once learners have their email accounts, they need to be able to send and receive email, and to attach and open documents in email.
ü It is also useful for learners to have basic skills, such as knowledge about viruses sent by email, and spam or unsolicited junk email and how to protect themselves from them.
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