The role of WeQuests in learning a foreign/second language?

Webquests are a very common way of using Web resources to research a variety of topics and to develop both written and oral communication. A webquest is a research activity that requires the learner “to collect information about a subject using the web. WebQuests also have the ability to integrate on-line resources with student-centered, activity-based learning. In addition, the concept of Internet discovery has improved the ability of the student to construct  own learning through WebQuest activities.

 

 Web Quest gives students the functions and specific activities to enable them to use sources of knowledge available to solve the problems raised in addition to learning life skills such as discovery, reasoning and inference and generalization, so the responses when dealing with the knowledge is not specified in advance, but there is creativity and learning an active and sustainable. Web Quest is a modern and fantastic occupancy and activation of the students to explore knowledge in a planned and sequential through educational activities, methods of teaching education depends on information technology and work groups such as the methods of problem solving and active learning effective, which makes the student center of the educational activity . Critical thinking cannot be taught by lecturing. Critical thinking is an active process, while, for most students, listening to lectures is a passive activity. The intellectual skills of critical thinking--analysis, synthesis, and reflection--must be learned by actually performing them. Classroom instruction, homework, term papers, and exams, therefore, should emphasize active intellectual participation by the student. This WebQuest is designed thematically to enable students to acquire critical thinking skills. The emphasis of this WebQuest is for students to discover new information which will allow them to become independent thinkers. Webquests allows students from many locations to work together while learning about a particular subject and searching for information.                                                                                                                                                                 In my opinion, Web Quest allows students to explore specific issues and achieved self-knowledge and achieve the building of his own knowledge and creativity and the student can deal with the knowledge in a way beneficial process does not depend on the conservation and memorization