Abstract:

The Internet provides the facilities for listening, speaking, reading and writing which are four basic abilities for language learners to acquire. Internet based language teaching that is suitable for using different materials in virtual classrooms, offers significant chances to improve communicative competence. Besides these facilities, it is inevitable that problems encountered in these applications. This paper examines technical problems encountered in the Internet-based language teaching with their examples. These examples are collected from classes that are within the scope of Turkish Language Certificate Program. Turkish Language Certificate Program is the first Turkish teaching program whose exams and asynchronous-synchronous facilitations are implemented fully via the internet.

Keywords:

Techinical problems, Internet-based language teaching.