Brave new digital classroom : technology and foreign language learning / Robert J. Blake ; foreword by Dorothy M. Chun.

By: Blake, Robert J, 1951-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2008Description: xv, 189 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 1589012127 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781589012127 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Educational technology | Computer-assisted instruction | Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Technological innovationsDDC classification: 418.00285 LOC classification: LB1028.3 | .B567 2008Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
SLA, language teaching, and technology : an overview -- Web pages in service of L2 learning -- CALL and its evaluation -- Computer mediated communication (CMC) -- Distance learning for languages : does it measure up? -- Putting it all together.
Summary: "Brave New Digital Classroom" deftly interweaves results of pedagogical research and descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to explore how technology can best be employed in the foreign-language curriculum to assist the second language acquisition process. Directed to all language teachers - whether at the school or the postsecondary level, with or without prior experience - this book focuses on how to use new technologies effectively. Blake urges teachers to move beyond a simple functional competence of knowing how to use the tools toward first a critical competence - realizing what the various tools are good for - and ultimately a rhetorical competence of knowing how the tools will help transform the learning environment. -- Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-171) and index.

SLA, language teaching, and technology : an overview -- Web pages in service of L2 learning -- CALL and its evaluation -- Computer mediated communication (CMC) -- Distance learning for languages : does it measure up? -- Putting it all together.

"Brave New Digital Classroom" deftly interweaves results of pedagogical research and descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to explore how technology can best be employed in the foreign-language curriculum to assist the second language acquisition process. Directed to all language teachers - whether at the school or the postsecondary level, with or without prior experience - this book focuses on how to use new technologies effectively. Blake urges teachers to move beyond a simple functional competence of knowing how to use the tools toward first a critical competence - realizing what the various tools are good for - and ultimately a rhetorical competence of knowing how the tools will help transform the learning environment. -- Publisher description.

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