Creating WebQuests to Guide Students' Language Learning

WebQuests are an eResource teaching approach that helps teachers balance the need to:

1. guide students' language learning;  2. apply what they've learned to practical, integrated tasks and activities: and 3. give adequate opportunity for independent learning.

Using Webquests is an eLearning approach that is compatible with a variety of a variety of other eLearning pedagogies, including the Flipped Classroom, a Task-based Approach, SALL and Project Learning.

Here is a presentation to help you create your own WebQuest. There are links to many useful WebQuest websites on the last slide. Click on the link: Introduction to WebQuests 

Create a WebQuest with your group to share with your classmates during a brief Prezi presentation on 7th March 2017. It is recommended that you use either PowerPoint or Google Sites to format your WebQuest. Follow the presentation guidelines in Lixun's Webquest:

Webquest: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Sample Prezi: Cool Cats Gone Wild 

Adapt the topic, tasks, objectives and language level of the WebQuest to the grade level(s) you are likely to teach. Be sure to integrate all the components of a WebQuest:

1. Introduction to the task

2. Interesting and manageable tasks that requires students to find, use and transform information

3. Clear instructions on what kind of information to find

4. Set of information resources (links) – these are embedded in the WebQuest

5. Evaluation of the products, tasks or learning outcomes, including a self-assessment for students and assessment for teachers

6. Conclusion reminding students what they have learned

Here are some model WebQuests:

1. Anti-Smoking (Secondary 3)

2. Transportation (Primary 5)