3.2 Information Input

　　This is an information world nowadays. New information and knowledge follow fast. And internet covers various things of social areas. Internet is the convenientway to get information. People can get the materials they need whenever they want. Most of the information is fashionable and real and is good source for inputting language of languageacquisition.

　　3.3 Culture Input

　　Language is the carrier of culture. The purpose for language learning is to know the country’s culture. On the other hand, culture is an important part of language learning. So culture input in second language acquisition is essential.

　　Internet can provide muchinformation about occidental culture and custom. Like festivals, the news, the characters of economy and politics of westerncountries. It is a key for understanding the westerncountries.

　　4. The Practice of Language Input Using Internet

　　It is popular practice to use internet technique and resource into Englishteaching. At the same time, more and more research, experiment and publishes state that internet can give learners interestsand motivation and enhance the students’abilitiesof listening, reading, speaking and writing. Internet also enablesstudents to study target language in a certain cultural environment. It provides vivid communicative context and help learners to be confident. But applying internet into second language teaching is only in a primary stage. Deep research and study are needed to find some more efficient and practical ways.

　　4.1 Using Internet to Create a Language Context for Second Language Acquisition

　　The most difficult obstacle for Chineseto study Englishis lack of the target language context. To give our Englishlearners more chances to contact with English, to improve the study environment, and make every learner to study Englishnaturallyin the true communication is impossible for Englishteaching. But fast development of internet gives the shortcut and improves the Englishteaching. The biggest contribution is creating a real and naturallanguage context. The service of book, music, movie, news, entertainment, traveling, chatting on the net create a relaxed and artificial environment and a good chance for language acquisition for learners. The learners can entera chatting room or use ICQ to chat with foreign friends. This will help them to know the custom and the authentic English. Englishlearners will receive rich languageinput in a natural languageenvironment and master the languageunconsciously.

　　4.2 Using the Lexical Information on the Net to Improve Learners’Ability of Reading and Writing

　　The websites are various. The language on sites which is excellent, interesting, and authentic will attract the learners. Then they will choose different information as they want to learn the language. And the information on the net can be downloaded for reading and writing. There are many newspapers and periodical websites, like http：/ / www.thetimes.co.uk/，http：/ / www.economist.com，http;//www.chinatoday.com.cn，and http：/ / www.Englishclub.com.cn. Learners can clip this site to read Englishdirectly. While reading if they confront some new words they can use the online dictionary likehttp://www.iciba.com/to get the meaning. Besides, Englishlearners can use internet to improve their writing ability. People can write their thoughts and suggestions in Englishon the message board on some website after reading itwhich can practicetheir writing. Another technique to improve the writing ability is using E-mail. Englishlearners can communicate with the native people or other learners on one topic. This significant writing communication based on interest will give learners more motivation than the writing in classroom. Writing on net requires more complicated vocabulary and grammar than conversation. So internet provides not only the authenticmaterial of input and communication for second language acquisition but alsothe context to practice their language ability.

　　4.3 Using Internet to Improve the Listening Ability

　　The Englishlistening text books are out of date and the language in them is fixed. They can not meet the learners need to study modernEnglish. But the listening materials on net are latest, real and have more information and vocabulary, so they will attract the learners and suit the trend of the education. There is information about economy, politics, technique, culture, people, etc in the listening materials on net, which provide more useful language input for learners. The teachers can download some Englishvideo from the net as the text according to the student’ssituation. Teachers also can introduce some online Englishlistening websites and some Englishbroadcastinglet them practicetheir listening in their spare time. These are some popular Englishwebsite:http://www.tingli.com/, http://www.listeningexpress.com/, http://broadcast.yahoo.com. And there are many onlineEnglishsongs and original movies which can be the materials to practicethe listening. Like http://www.filmsea.com, http://www.niceEnglishsong.com.cn，http://www.english.ac.cn/movies/playwright.htm. These video together with some pictures can let the learner use their auraand visualorgans and improve the acquisition.

　　Conclusion

　　Internet can provide abundant information sources which can be used as the input materials for second language acquisition. Makinggood use of the information on net and the internet technique will improve the second language acquisition, and let learners acquire the language in better environment.

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　　摘要：因特网中的资源被应用与各行各业，在外语教学中它也同样发挥着巨大的作用。本文从第二语言习得过程中语言输入的角度，阐述了因特网网络资源可成为语言输入的理想语料所具备的条件和丰富内容以及利用因特网来辅助第二语言习得的探索实践。并给出利于第二语言英语习得的相关网站。

　　关键词：因特网，第二语言习得，语言输入

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