Reflection 2 - Websites that might help

In my teacher shadowing I have seen a lot of students with different backgrounds; with different needs and attitudes towards English and American society in general. One particular student has caught my attention because he does not like to be here; for him living in the U.S. does not make sense, and that makes learning English much more difficult. He is from Nepal; he has lived here just for three months which it has been really hard for him; he sees American culture quite different from his own culture and language; however, he pays attention to what the teacher says, and sometimes he tries to participate in the activities; he tries to speak as much as he can, and his listening comprehension is really accurate. I think that he needs more time to assimilate the new culture and language in order to understand and master American culture and English.
From my point of view a good way to help this student is giving him the opportunity to know more about the U.S. by himself; I think that Internet can provide this help because he can learn apart from what he is been taught at the school; he can find some interesting topics from American culture and relate them with his own experience; he can find similarities and differences that can make learning more meaningful for him.
A good website to know about American culture is http://www.americanfolklore.net/index.html; here he can find American legends; heroes and villains stories; spooky stories. It is a huge source of American traditions and culture.
Other website that might help is http://www.teachertube.com/ because apart from learning something about culture, he can know about American history; science and English in general.
National Geographic is an excellent website; here students can learn about many cultures in a matter of seconds, and of course everything is in English. http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/
Using these kinds of websites this student can help himself; he can understand better his new country and culture. He can guide his own learning and his own experience.