Foreign language learning with digital technology
By: edited by Michael J. Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Michael, 1951 May 12-
Series: Education and digital technology series
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781847060419
Subjects: Language and languages -- Computer-assisted instruction; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Technological innovations
Description: While digital technology is endlessly innovating and improving itself as a tool to support teaching and learning, the cognitive process of language learning itself remains perennially the same. However, digital technology has created new learning opportunities and introduces new elements into the cognitive process of foreign language learning. The contributors of this well-edited collection examine foreign language learning primarily from a user perspective and explore these underlying questions: How does digital technology support existing foreign language learning needs and processes? What new learning experiences does it entail for the learner? The book situates new insights into the value of digital technology for foreign language learning within the context of evidence from prior research and of educational policy-making and examines key pedagogical uses of digital technology in relation to effective foreign language learning by pupils. It provides an in-depth description of the use of a range of digital media and combines practical ideas for teaching and learning with critical analysis of evidence drawing on an analysis of technology-focused language learning across different sectors and in different anglophone contexts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Digital technology and language learning : the evidence from research / Michael Evans; title: The potential of the Internet as a language learning tool / Iain Mitchell; title: Trainee perceptions of the use of digital technology in the language classroom / Linda Fisher; title: Digital technology as a tool for active learning in MFL : engaging language learners in and beyond the secondary classroom / Rachel Hawkes; title: Engaging pupils in bilingual, cross-cultural on-line discourse / Michael Evans; title: Side by side : ICTs and language learning in the remote areas of Western Australia / Cal Durrant; title: Teacher and student perceptions of e-learning in EFL / Miranda Hamilton; title: From textbook to online materials : curriculum development in the era of ICT / Carl Blyth.