Digital Language Learning and Teaching: Critical and Primary Sources

by Michael Thomas (Editor), Julie M. Sykes (Editor), Hayo Reinders (Editor), Mark Peterson (Editor)

Overview

Digital Language Learning and Teaching: Critical and Primary Sources brings together over 100 essential texts on digitally-assisted or enabled language learning from the inception of these technologies to their burgeoning 21st century maturity. The four volumes will focus on :

1) Theories and Frameworks
2) Focus on the Learner
3) Teaching with Computer Assisted Language Learning
4) New Developments in Computer Assisted Language Learning

Each volume features an editorial introduction by a world-renowned authority on the subject and articles within them are grouped thematically. Professor Mark Warschauer (University of California-Irvine, USA) contributes an extensive Foreword for the project.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474277952
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/16/2017
Series:	Critical and Primary Sources
Product dimensions:	6.92(w) x 9.90(h) x 4.28(d)

About the Author

Michael Thomas is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Chair of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Hayo Reinders is Professor of Education and Head of Department at Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand, and Dean of the Graduate School at Anaheim University, USA. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching'. Hayo's interests are in educational technology, learner autonomy, and out-of-class learning and his most recent books are on teaching methodologies, digital games, and second language acquisition.

Mark Peterson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Kyoto University, Japan.

Table of Contents

Volume I: Theories and Frameworks (Lead Editor: Michael Thomas)
1. Editor’s introduction
2. Defining theory in CALL
3. Sociocultural theory
4. Computer-mediated communication
5. Emerging research directions

Volume II: Focus on the Learner (Lead Editor: Julie Sykes)
1. Editor’s introduction
2. Learner autonomy
3. Communicative language teaching
4. Task-based language teaching and CALL
5. Language learning and creativity

Volume III: Teaching with CALL (Lead Editor: Hayo Reinders)
1. Editor’s introduction
2. Classroom instruction
3. Online and blended learning
4. Supporting learning
5. Feedback and assessment

Volume IV: New Developments in CALL (Lead Editor: Mark Peterson)
1. Editor’s introduction
2. Mobile learning
3. Intelligent tutors
4. Immersive environments
5. E-Research approaches