Brave New Digital Classroom : Technology and Foreign Language Learning Paperback
by Robert J. Blake
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"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.
This book examines the effective use of a range of technologies, from Internet sites through computer-mediated communication such as synchronous chatting and blogs, to distance learning.
At the end of each chapter questions and activities demonstrate the interactionist, learner-centered pedagogy Blake espouses. An invaluable reference for experienced researchers and CALL developers as well as those of limited experience, "Brave New Digital Classroom" is also ideal for graduate-level courses on second language pedagogy.
It will also be of interest to department chairs and administrators seeking to develop and evaluate their own CALL programs.
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- Pages:240 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher:Georgetown University Press
- Publication Date:24/09/2008
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- ISBN:9781589012127
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:240 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher:Georgetown University Press
- Publication Date:24/09/2008
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- ISBN:9781589012127