New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

✍ Scribed by Liliana Piasecka, Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf, Przemysław Wilk (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Series: Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book concerns the ways in which the new media shape communication along with educational expectations and practices in foreign language classrooms. Although foreign language learners have cheap and easy access to information and ways of communication, they also wrestle with problems that have always accompanied language learning. The focus of the book is two-fold. On the one hand, the authors demonstrate how using social networks, videoconferencing, mobile phones, wikis, and computer-mediated interaction contributes to the development of language skills, negotiated interaction, autonomy, and intercultural competence. On the other, they discuss “old” issues pertaining to the role of vocabulary, corrective feedback, textbooks and inner speech in the process of language learning and use. Every chapter reports original empirical research on issues related to the new media and old problems in foreign language teaching contexts in various countries, and with respect to various age groups.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Multimedia in Learning English as a Foreign Language as Preferred by German, Spanish, and Polish Teenagers....Pages 3-19
Advanced Learners’ Intercultural Experience Through Computer-Enhanced Technology: A Study of Polish and Romanian Students....Pages 21-38
Wikis and New Perspectives for Collaborative Writing....Pages 39-55
The Foreign Language Classroom in the New Media Age: Videoconferencing and Negotiated Interaction Among L2 Learners....Pages 57-71
E-mail, Facebook, and Mobile Phones as Essential Tools for Lower Secondary School Students’ Communication....Pages 73-90
Facebook to Facebook Encounters in Japan: How an Online Social Network Promotes Autonomous L2 Production....Pages 91-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Communicating with Oneself: On the Phenomenon of Private/Inner Speech in Language Acquisition....Pages 115-130
The Effectiveness of Written Corrective Feedback in the Acquisition of the English Article System by Polish Learners in View of the Counterbalance Hypothesis....Pages 131-150
Formal Instruction in Collocations in English: Mixed Methods Approach....Pages 151-167
Some Implications for Developing Learners’ Figurative Language Competence Across Modalities: Metaphor, Metonymy and Blending in the Picture Modality....Pages 169-187
Design and Style of Cultural and Media Studies Textbooks for College Students....Pages 189-207
Towards Teaching English for Pharmaceutical Purposes: An Attempt at a Description of Key Vocabulary and Phraseology in Clinical Trial Protocols and European Public Assessment Reports....Pages 209-228

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics; Language Education