Description
Changing Language Education Through CALL is a book advocating for change in language education, specifically through the use of new research and technology. The book is divided into sixteen chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of language learning and teaching. The book provides teachers with user-friendly, flexible ways to incorporate technology into the language learning process, as well as the theoretical and practical basis for CALL applications across a broad spectrum of teaching styles.
The last twenty years has seen a huge evolution in approaches to language-learning, due to new technology as well changing theories on how to best teach languages. Recognising the key relationship between research, practice and program development,
Changing Language Education Through CALL is an important text advocating change that makes effective use of new research into learning styles, as well as new technology. Bringing together sixteen internationally respected experts in second-language acquisition and computer technologies, it presents teachers with user-friendly, flexible ways to incorporate technology into the language learning process and provides both the theoretical and practical basis for CALL applications across a broad spectrum of teaching styles, textbooks and courses. Practical and clearly presented, each chapter in this book concentrates on the learning process and the teacher's role in facilitating this through the proper and effective use of technology - thus ensuring that the partnership of pedagogical expertise and technological innovation remains the work's focus.