Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Faculty of Philology, Literary Studies
and World Languages
Zhanabekova Magulsim Abdildaevna
Candidate
of Philological Sciences
The basic
advantages and disadvantages OF INternet
in our Life
Today
millions of people use
different kinds of New Technologies. The word «new
technology» is in general usage.
There are a lot of
various computers, mobile phones,
CD/DVD disks, flesh cards in our
everyday use with evolution in technology. We are surrounded with
electronically controlled inventions
of man, science and technology.
New Technologies are available and vital everywhere, so they make our life more easier. This means that we live in a new electronic
age and over the five past years the
way people communicate changed using
frequently technological developments
as mobile phones, the Internet. They are the most important and new means of communication between
teachers and students, parents and children.
I am facing with many websites
which are useful in many ways while
working on the Internet. Some of them are Google, Facebook, NYTimes, Reditt etc. Here I want to mention some top reasons of New Technological developments as video
cameras, mobile phones which
make an impression on
students and especially why
they use the Internet, an e-mail.
The rise of
using Internet is growing with
tremendous speed. It is a remarkable
success and one of the most
important inventions in
the history of new
technologies. It is exactly true
that Internet is becoming one of the
most important part of our life. Today no one can imagine the life without Internet. It was started in 1968 by the US
government, but at first it was used mainly by scientists. Since 1990, when the
World Wide Web was created, it has changed the world and its users are growing
every day.
Internet is a
nice medium to connect with the entire World. People use it as a medium to
connect with other people, sharing files, entertainment, information and lots
of other activities that are useful and beneficial in many terms.
The main purpose
of the Internet is to find out more information — for our schoolwork or job, or just about current events as hobbies, sports
and music.
The area of prospective
using the Internet— at any hour of the day and night all latest information of the world is available
to people. It's much faster and easier to surf the net in search of information
from all over the world than to travel to libraries in dozens of countries. You
can also use the Internet to read books in original, newspapers and magazines,
play games, plan your holiday or buy thing from your favourite shops and etc.
For all these using E-mail makes
it possible to send electronic messages anywhere in the world in seconds. Let’s draw our attention to Who and Why
people use Internet. What is it? What
is it for?
Table 1.
|
№ |
Ordinary people |
share
information |
news |
source |
|
1 |
Businessmen |
sell
products online
shopping and e-banking. |
business e-commerce |
marketing making money |
|
2 |
Intelligent people |
share thoughts and ideas write
papers keep mind
active use as a
library |
source |
creative
work |
|
3 |
Young people |
'chat' with people make new friends find
necessary information on TV, radio, watch video etc. watch
online anime listen and
change music albums |
friendship leisure fun |
communication education entertainment |
Some people think that
the Internet is the most necessary thing which helps gaining
education but there are also those who blame it for making people addicted. In
this article, I am going to write about the
pros and cons of the Internet.
One
of the advantages of using Internet
is that we can find every information we want to achieve. The things we are
searching will be for sure found in one of the millions of pages. What is more,
the searching process is very short and the Internet portals like 'YAHOO' and
'AltaVista' are created to help us with it. In addition, if we have the
Internet at home, we don't have to go to the libraries. In this way, we are
sparing our priceless time. Another advantage is that
we can communicate almost with everyone through the Net with help of e-mails
and messengers. It's cheaper and faster than the normal mail. The
e-mail exchanges encourage communication to strengthen the intercultural
relationships between English speaking students during a semester. The
students also exchange e-mail with their English speaking keypals - penpals (pen friends) who write to each other with keyboards instead of
ink. In this way students are motivated to
learn more about abroad culture and at
the same time they improve their linguistic skills.
People also
exchange information in real time, including breaking news stories along
with video and know the latest news
before it appears on broadcast
television or can be included in hard
print newspapers. [p.8]
Table 2
|
What |
Information |
||||
|
How |
quick |
save time |
access to libraries |
e-mail message |
beforehand |
Here we tried to analyze the best ways or methods
of obtaining information and how
information is transmitted.
On the other hand, the disadvantages are a serious problem for young generation of today's world. The Internet is causing one of the worst diseases
- the Internet addiction. People are wasting their time taking part in the
useless chats. However, it's good because we can talk with almost everyone from
the furthest sides of our planet, but on summary - it's not worth
spending our time. In addition, if we don't have the ADSL*, we spend too much
money on the modem connection. There is also a danger for the teens because of
the presence of paedophiles on the Net and lot of pages, which includes the
videos for adults.
However, the real world of the Internet may not be as perfect as it seems.
With so much information available, finding what you want can take you
hours. Multimedia web pages with photographs, music and video are attractive,
but they make downloading slow and boring. Besides, there is too much advertising
instead of real information.
As for Internet friendships, sitting at home in front of a computer
making 'chat friends' is not the same as actually meeting people.
Table 3
|
What |
Information |
|||
|
How |
pictures |
waste time |
spend money |
dangerous |
To sum up, the Internet is very necessary but we have to learn how to use it and
avoid all the dangers of usage. We should remember that it's only a source of
information and not a way to search for serious friendship.
INTERNET: PROS AND CONS
Science and new technologies play a very important role
in human’s life. Most of our daily activities are greatly associated
with science and technology. One of the contributions of science and technology
to mankind is the invention of internet. Internet is a global system
of interconnected computer networks. Internet is used in almost all
the places including houses, schools, and offices. The function of
internet is to connect a network of computers from all over the world.
The internet is an information
highway that is linked through World
Wide Web. Through internet, we are able to receive and send
information through web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer
and Chrome in just a blink of eyes. The best of all, the information can be
transferred in various forms which include texts, pictures, songs and
videos.
The system can also support all types of
files, namely JPEG, BMP and GIF for pictures and MP3, MP4, WMA, and AVI
for songs and videos. Thus, we can transfer the information that we want
without to worry about the formats.
What are students to
learn from the Web page: cultural information, a grammar structure, or
vocabulary? Are they to make progress in any of the four language skills:
speaking, listening, writing, and reading? Before creating a Web-based activity
it is necessary to define the desired learner outcomes. C. Meskill stresses the
need to be clear and directive when preparing students to work in computer
environments: "Learners need to be oriented, briefed, and well equipped
with the language skills and guidance in the critical thinking strategies they
will need to enter the space, locate information they determine to be in
keeping with the mission, extract it, and bring it back into the arena of
discussion, syntheses, and active use” [4, P.149].
The result of Web-based activity:
|
Skills |
speaking |
listening, |
writing |
reading |
|
Learning |
information |
structure |
documents |
topics |
One of the benefits of internet is that
it gives us leisure. This is because the net can provides us with various
endless entertainments. For example,
we can watch videos in YouTube. In YouTube, there are millions
of videos with different genres such as funny, romance and horror to
suit our mood. Not only that, 8TV and NTV7 channels also have their
own websites. These enable us to review back on movies or
programmes on television that we had missed
out.
Radio channels such as
One FM, Hitz Fm and Hot Fm also have their
own sites for the same purpose and these sites enable us to seethe
situation in the studios when on air.
There are also many sites that
enable the users especially youths to watch anime or read manga online. This is good as this enables us to
save money as the cost of a manga or anime DVD are quite expensive. These
entertainments will not only give us leisure but also provide fun
to us, hence reducing our stress and tense.
E-commerce is another benefit of internet and it is growing rapidly not only
in advancing countries like United Kingdom, USA but also in our own country (Kakakhstan). This
e-commerce includes online shopping and e-banking. Through online shopping, we
can buy anything we wish as the net provides a range of products from
all over the world. The procedures are also simple that is by clicking on
the items that we want and put them in ‘’shopping cart’’.
In just few days time, depending on the distance between the house
and the traders, we can get the products we want in good quality. Examples
of famous online shopping sites are
Yahoo! Shopping and mudah.com that exhibit diverse products like
books, furniture, clothes, electronic devices and
So people
can make money online by using
internet. People can make money online by many factual ways. There are lots of options available.
Designing, Freelancing, consultancies, software providers, application always
help people to work in an easier way.
Internet marketers use
internet to sell products. There are lots of social media enthusiasts who
promote other’s product online via various social media sites. There are lots
of publishers available who promote others product by advertising on various
websites blogs etc.
There are
a lot of fundamental differences
of attending a virtual classroom compared to attending a traditional on-campus
classroom. The quality of education given by professors is similar, how you go
about lectures and study different subjects with these two types of education.
Online
education Pros:
The first advantage of online education is to have convenient time– students
are capable of attending online courses wherever and whenever they please.
They are not locked in by an university’s term system, so they can begin almost anytime when you want to
attend their lecture. In other words
online education works best for the students and they have better chance to control over their daily routine of taking lectures and studying an easier time preparing for tests
and defending finals or degrees, so
time is flexible for any person.
The second advantage is having internet
access, students can attend lectures and turn in assignments and most
online degrees are significantly cheaper than
the traditional ones. Online institutions are all accredited, reputable
and as rewarding as on-campus universities.
Internet has an effect on almost everything people do, it is accessible.
As long as
students want to take online
education Internet makes them keep in
touch with distant tutors and everything is over the internet just between a
student and the computer. No annoying student who keeps raising their hand and interrupting the class’s lecture.
Students can write assignments and send them off with one click.
Online
education Cons:
There is no direct
speech between humans or face to face
conversation is off. Distance
learning means you won’t actually see the professor in person.
Online schools require an internet access and working
computers. Sometimes people don’t have any information science knowledge but
still need to know the way of using around their operating system or tech requirements.
Online environments still encourage interaction with
colleagues, but this will be virtual and not in person.
You won’t have a campus to call home and this
discourages some students.
Online education is very famous medium of study in developed countries and growing
in developing nations. Various websites such as Khan Academy and Free Video Lectures offer online courses to learn various things like
designing, programming, engineering, medical, language learning and other subjects. This is very helpful
medium to promote education on that place where online courses are not easily available.
In conclusion I’d like to ask «What is Internet for?» Let’s have some definitions for this question. As above mentioned Internet is making money for professional businessmen; creative
work for intelligentsia; communication, education and entertainment for young
generation and etc. In modern times
technological developments play a great
role in our everyday life and science. Time has changed, the new means of communication – Internet is Ahead.
Use and Follow It.
As research has proven, language is best
learned if practiced in authentic, realistic situations. The task demanded of
students should be close to real life and language use should be natural and of
the kind that is found in everyday settings.
Used Literature:
2. Аяпова Т.,
Әбілдаева З. English: «Ағылшын
тілі» Text-book. Kazakhstan, Almaty: Мектеп баспасы, 2011
3. English. Актуальные темы по английскому языку. Ростов-на-Дону, 2009
РЕЗЮМЕ
В статье рассматривается о преимуществе коммуникации через
Интернет (World Wide Web) который
является одним из самых мощных инструментов в мире, и, действительно,
удивительной частью нашей жизни. Современная жизнь и бизнес стали сегодня проще
благодаря огромному вкладу Интернет-технологий для общения и обмена
информацией. Интернет позволяет не только общаться по электронной почте, а
также обеспечивает легкий доступ к информации, изображениям и продуктам. Каждый
день в Интернете появляется что-то новое и очень удобное, и это делает жизнь
легче для многих людей. Интернет образование развивается в очень
быстром темпе.
Есть много чатов и социальных сетей в
Интернете, которые могут быть доступны для того, чтобы знакомиться с новыми
людьми, заводить новых единомышленников, а также сохранять связь со своими
старыми друзьями,и осуществить покупки
онлайн. В данной статье также рассматриваются недостатки применения
инновационно-информационных технологии,являющиеся основным
фактором повышения качества образования и
обучения иностранным языкам .
RESUME
This article deals with the
advantages and disadvantages of usage innovative
technologies which is the basic factor
of increasing the quality of
education and the teaching of foreign
languages through means of communications as Internet.
түйін
Білім беру үрдісінде жаңа ақпараттық технологияларды қолдану мәселесі өзектімәселелердің қатарынан орын алуда. Шетел тілін оқытудың мақсаты субьектінің мәдениетаралық қарым-қатынас біліктілігін қалыптастыру десек, онда сол шетел тілін оқытуда жаңа ақпараттық технологияларды қолдану шетел тілін оқытудың мақсатынан туындап отырған қажеттілік болмақ.