Inclusive Language Education and Digital Technology

✍ Scribed by Elina Vilar Beltrán (editor); Chris Abbott (editor); Jane Jones (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited book brings together chapters which collectively address issues relating to inclusive language education and technology. It links a theoretical background to policy in Europe, and uses theory to inform practical ideas and strategies for practising and aspiring language teachers and those in support roles.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: The Key Issues
1. Modern Foreign Languages as an Inclusive Learning Opportunity: Changing Policies, Practices and Identities in the Languages Classroom
2. Technology Uses and Language – A Personal View
3. Meeting Special Educational Needs in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching: Learning from the Past, Working for the Future
Part 2: Case Studies
4. The 21st Century Languages Classroom – The Teacher Perspective
5. Using Technology to Teach English as a Foreign Language to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
6. Information and Communication Technology – An Instrument for Developing Inclusive Practice in the Training of Modern Languages Teachers
7. Foreign Languages for Learners with Dyslexia – Inclusive Practice and Technology
8. Creative Engagement and Inclusion in the Modern Foreign Language Classroom
9. Conflicts between Real-Time Resources and the Storage of Digitized Materials: Issues of Copyright
Conclusion
Index