Blending Technologies in Second Language Classrooms

✍ Scribed by Don Hinkelman (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 428
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses the classroom blending of face-to-face and online technologies in the teaching and learning of second languages. Its theoretical framework integrates the rapidly changing and developing fields of both applied linguistics and computer-assisted language learning (CALL). It examines such themes as the normalization of the computer and the rise of mobile devices, the development of open educational resources, flipped learning, gamification, and the increased focus on communication and problem-solving tasks in class. The author illustrates how the design or ‘bricolage’ of blended learning is part of a radical shift in our conceptualisation of the learning environment. Building on the framework established in its first edition, this book will appeal to teachers-in-training, scholars and practitioners of second language education.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxii
Evolution of Blended Learning (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 1-21
Understanding Learning Technologies (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 23-53
Learning Metaphors and Ecologies (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 55-83
Designs for Blended Language Learning (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 85-123
Strategies for Blended Language Learning (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 125-159
Assessments for Blended Language Learning (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 161-206
Principles of Research in Blended Environments (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 207-235
Action Research in Blended Environments (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 237-257
Ethnographic Research in Blended Environments (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 259-291
Blended Technologies in Practice (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 293-317
Blended Language Lessons in Practice (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 319-354
Blended Language Programs in Practice (Don Hinkelman)....Pages 355-386
Back Matter ....Pages 387-407

✦ Subjects

English