Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching

✍ Scribed by Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Regine Hampel (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This offers a framework for thinking about technologies that allow online communication, for example, forums, chats, real-time platforms as well as virtual worlds and mobile devices, and the practical issues of using them. The authors offer a thorough appraisal of the potential benefits and challenges of learning and teaching a language online.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Historical Background....Pages 7-18
Learning Theories....Pages 19-30
Mediation, Multimodality and Multiliteracies....Pages 31-48
Lines of Enquiry into CMCL....Pages 49-60
Teaching Online....Pages 61-75
Learner Experience....Pages 76-87
Assessment of CMCL....Pages 88-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Asynchronous Fora....Pages 107-114
Synchronous Chat....Pages 115-122
Multiple Object-oriented Environments....Pages 123-130
Audiographic Environments and Virtual Worlds....Pages 131-137
Videoconferencing....Pages 138-145
Emerging Technologies....Pages 146-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
An Overview of Practitioner Research....Pages 157-171
A Practical Guide to CMCL Practitioner Research....Pages 172-182
Data in Practitioner Research....Pages 183-191
Some Possible Practitioner Research Projects....Pages 192-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Resources....Pages 209-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-260

✦ Subjects

Language Teaching; Linguistics, general; Language Education