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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, Robert J., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational technology.

Computer-assisted instruction.

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Technological innovations.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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 teachersùwhether at the school or the postsecondary level, with or without prior experienceùthis 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 crit

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-171) and index.

ISBN:

1-58901-652-1

1-4356-7467-7

OCLC:

652626229