CALL Teacher Education : Language Teachers and Technology Integration /
Torsani, Simone,author.
CALL Teacher Education is a practical resource for teacher trainers who are about to deal with the challenging and exciting task of preparing language teachers to integrate technology into their everyday professional practice. As research yields results that show the solid and growing potential of technology for language education, Computer Assisted Language Learning has become a rather common subject in teacher training programmes worldwide. Based on the author's experience in teacher education, the present book aims at providing trainers with thorough methodological foundations and practical understanding to design and implement effective CALL courses. To achieve this goal, the volume collects and harmonises the different sources that constitute the base-knowledge of CALL Teacher Education and gradually leads the reader from theory down to practice. The volume, the first monograph on this subject, offers a comprehensive overview of CALL Teacher Education, both as an academic discipline and as a practice ambit, and explores among others the following topics: The relationship between technology and language learning; The integration of technology into language education; Theoretical foundations of CALL teacher training; Frameworks and standards for CALL education; Approaches and processes; CALL training procedures; Curriculum design.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Computer Assisted Language Learning as a Study Branch -- Technology and Language Education -- The Integration of Technology into Language Education -- Foundations of CALL Teacher Education -- CTE from Theory to Practice -- Approaches and Processes in CTE -- CALL Teacher Education for the Internet -- Procedures -- The CALL Course -- Conclusions -- List of Skills for Using a Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) -- Six Criteria for CALL Tasks Evaluation -- Call Applications -- References -- Index.
CALL Teacher Education is a practical resource for teacher trainers who are about to deal with the challenging and exciting task of preparing language teachers to integrate technology into their everyday professional practice. As research yields results that show the solid and growing potential of technology for language education, Computer Assisted Language Learning has become a rather common subject in teacher training programmes worldwide. Based on the author's experience in teacher education, the present book aims at providing trainers with thorough methodological foundations and practical understanding to design and implement effective CALL courses. To achieve this goal, the volume collects and harmonises the different sources that constitute the base-knowledge of CALL Teacher Education and gradually leads the reader from theory down to practice. The volume, the first monograph on this subject, offers a comprehensive overview of CALL Teacher Education, both as an academic discipline and as a practice ambit, and explores among others the following topics: The relationship between technology and language learning; The integration of technology into language education; Theoretical foundations of CALL teacher training; Frameworks and standards for CALL education; Approaches and processes; CALL training procedures; Curriculum design.
Language and languages