“Challenges of creating web-based activites in Sally Morrison” Interactive lanaguge Learning on the Web”

Nowadays, teaching or learning English language is not limited only in classroom practice. The internet provides many and different websites that can enhance language learning, but this does not means it is easy to use web-based language learning activities to improve the learning process. There are many difficulties that face a language teacher in creating web-based activities, which are:

1-the teachers do not have the technical skill and knowledge to create web-based language learning activities.

2- the variability of students’ access to computers as well as connecting with the internet.

3- the need to design website appropriate for the needs of students with disabilities.

These are the general difficulties can be faced by teachers anywhere around the world; Saudi teachers face also the same problems. Moreover, they have their own problems such as lack of support from the students' parents to encourage this type of learning. Saudi students' parents always have the idea that learning should be done through traditional ways of learning and other is wasting of time. Also, Saudi students usually have the idea that English language is very difficult and can not learn in any way, for that they always do not do what their teachers asked them to do at home. On my opinion, even the infrastructure in Saudi Arabia does not enhance this type of learning; there is area within most of cities missing the internet connection. I hope the situation will changes in the coming few years.