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Teeler (2000) in her discussion of what makes a good Internet-based language learning activity:

"Remember that there is no sense in doing activities that are equally well done offline with paper and pen, using the Internet for the sheer novelty factor. Misuse of the tool in this way can be as de-motivating for you as for the students. The real benefit for students begins when activities exercise different kinds of learning styles…, provide a real audience for communication and allow for interaction on both local and /or international scale. In this way they can enable students to: evaluate, review, publish, compare, negotiate, simulate, create, investigate, hypothesize, organize, bargain, debate, interview, listen, watch, retell, examine, experiment, play, survey and report. (p. 63)"

Teeler, D. (2000). How to Use the Internet in ELT. Malaysia: Longman.