Language Teacher Education and Technology: Approaches and Practices (Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1350020400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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-- Jozef Colpaert, Professor of Instructional Design and Educational Technology, University of Antwerp, Belgium Put together with an eye to clarity and exhaustiveness, this collection provides an overview and analysis of nine (mainly) postgraduate CALL training courses for language teachers. CALL courses would be irrelevant. This book is a precious tool for those teaching language teachers to teach with CALL. It shows an inspiring range of possibilities, in a delicate balance between theory versus practice, technological versus non-technological activities, using versus creating materials, formative versus summative assessment, hardw
Jeong-Bae Son, PhD, is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of South Queensland, Australia.Scott Windeatt is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK.
Language teachers' competencies in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) are a crucial factor affecting their own implementation of CALL. This book explores the current status of CALL teacher education and discusses issues and challenges CALL teacher educators face in their own contexts. This can be the result of many different factors and raises the question of how to train teachers to develop their CALL knowledge and skills to a greater degree. However, there is still a concern that many language teachers are not adequately prepared to make effective use of CALL or to identify and evaluate potential CALL solutions. Specifically, it looks at postgraduate CALL courses offered at different universities to find ways of improving CALL teacher training. It represents the first overview of a topic that is relevant to most postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics or TESOL across the globe. The use of technology for language learning and teaching is increasingly common but, as is so often the case, training for teachers in how to use that technology remains limited, to a large extent by lack of expertise among trainers.. The discussion of approaches to training language teachers in the use of technology adopted in areas of Australia, the UK and the US provides valuable insights for those already involved in this area, and inspirat