Distance Education and Languages: Evolution and Change

✍ Scribed by Börje Holmberg (editor); Monica Shelley (editor); Cynthia J. White (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 360
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book deals specifically with the teaching of languages at a distance. It includes work on learner autonomy and support; theories of distance language learning; the development of intercultural competence; methodology and course design; different learning environments and how to make best use of them, and language teacher education.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Learner Autonomy
1. Autonomy and the Distance Language Learner
2. Critical Reflection and Autonomy: A Study of Distance Learners of French, German and Spanish
3. Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Promotion of Collaborative Learner Autonomy in a Virtual Self-access Centre
Part 2: Learner Perspectives and Support
4. Towards a Learner-based Theory of Distance Language Learning: The Concept of the Learner–Context Interface
5. Feedback in Distance Language Learning: Current Practices and New Directions
6. A Framework for Supporting Students Studying English via a Mixed-mode Delivery System
Part 3: Development of Intercultural Competence
7. Assessing Intercultural Competence Gain in a German Distance Learning Course for Adults
8. Developing Professional Intercultural Communicative Competence: Reflections on Distance Learning Programmes for Language Educators and Translators/Interpreters in Bulgaria
Part 4: Methodology and Course Design
9. Methods: Some Basic Considerations
10. Course Design for the Distance Learner of Spanish: More Challenges than Meet the Eye
Part 5: Learning Environments
11. Learner Autonomy and Course Management Software
12. Chatlines for Beginners: Negotiating Conversation at a Distance
13. Making Online Students Connect: Ethnographic Strategies for Developing Online Learning Experiences
14: From Parrots to Puppet Masters: Fostering Creative and Authentic Language Use with Online Tools
15. The Challenges of Implementing Online Tuition in Distance Language Courses: Task Design and Tutor Role
Part 6: Language Teacher Development
16. Closing the Distance: Compensatory Strategies in Distance Language Education
17. PLEASE (Primary Language Teacher Education: Autonomy and Self-Evaluation)
18. Exploring Zones of Interactivity in Foreign Language and Bilingual Teacher Education
Notes on Contributors
Index
Subjects

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