by Nazmiye Gurel, SUNY At Buffalo
This webquest is created for EFL adult learners who study and specialize in different academic programs and whose foreign language proficiency range from upper-intermediate to advanced. The selected topic is such a hot debate issue which concerns everyone in the society that it would most likely stimulate learners’ motivation.
Introduction
By asking a novel question that you don’t know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
Are you familiar with “Dolly the sheep”? What do you know about it? What makes her so special and famous? What do we exactly know about cloning? Why are the scientists so excited about cloning? What about human cloning? Should it be done? Why and why not? Who will decide? How?
What is the power that we possess in our genes? This webquest will help you to explore, examine, understand, evaluate, and criticize what cloning is and whether humans should be cloned or not by taking on different roles.
Let’s use the power of our incredible minds and contribute to the hot debate on human cloning!