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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820745903321

Autore

Blake Robert J. <1951->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-58901-652-1

1-4356-7467-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

418.00285

Soggetti

Educational technology

Computer-assisted instruction

Language and languages - Study and teaching - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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