Brave new digital classroom : technology and foreign language learning /
Robert J. Blake ; foreword by Dorothy M. Chun.
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2008.
- xv, 189 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.