Authenticity and new media in foreign language teaching

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, Technical University of Braunschweig, course: Neue Medien im Fremdsprachenunterricht, language: English, abstract: This paper will at first explore the meaning of authenticity in the context of Foreign Language Teaching before moving on to presenting some ways of how authenticity can be supplied by ways of the New Media and finally giving a critical examination of the benefits and possible problems of the use of New Media for the purpose of presenting authentic material in-class.