Brave new digital classroom
Subtitle: technology and foreign language learning
By: Robert J. Blake
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781589019768
Subjects: Language and languages; Technological innovations; Study and teaching; Computer-assisted instruction; Educational technology
Description: Examines the most effective ways to utilize technology in language learning. The author interweaves the latest results of pedagogical research with descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to show how to implement technology in the foreign-language curriculum to assist the second language acquisition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Second language acquisition, language teaching, and technology; title: Web pages in service of L2 learning; title: Call and its evaluation: programs and apps; title: Computer-mediated communication; title: Theory in practice: putting it all together; title: Distance learning for languages; title: Social networking and L2 learning; title: Homo ludens: games for language learning.