Cross Cultural Perspectives On Technology Enhanced Language Learning

Author : Tafazoli, Dara,Gomez Parra, M. Elena,Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522554646

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning by Tafazoli, Dara,Gomez Parra, M. Elena,Huertas-Abril, Cristina A. Pdf

The ability to effectively communicate with individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds is an invaluable asset. Learning a second language proves useful as students navigate the culturally diverse world; however, studying a second language can be difficult for learners who are not immersed in the real and natural environment of the foreign language. Also, changes in education and advancements in information and communication technologies pose a number of challenges for implementing and maintaining sound practices within technology-enhanced language learning (TELL). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning provides information on educational technologies that enable language learners to have access to authentic and useful language resources. Readers will explore themes such as language pedagogy, how specific and universal cultural contexts influence audio-visual media used in technology-enhanced language learning (TELL), and the use of English video games to promote foreign language learning. This book is a valuable resource for academicians, education practitioners, advanced-level students, and school administrators seeking to improve language learning through technology-based resources.

Author : Tafazoli, Dara,Romero, Margarida
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781522518839

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Multiculturalism and Technology-Enhanced Language Learning by Tafazoli, Dara,Romero, Margarida Pdf

The implementation of technological tools in classroom settings provides significant enhancements to the learning process. When utilized properly, students can achieve better knowledge and understanding. Multiculturalism and Technology-Enhanced Language Learning is a critical source of research for the latest perspectives on the intersection of cross-cultural studies and technology in foreign language learning classrooms. Highlighting pertinent topics across a range of relevant coverage, such as mobile learning, game-based learning, and distance education, this book is ideally designed for educators, researchers, academics, linguists, and upper-level students interested in the latest innovations for language education.

Author : Rebecca L. Oxford
Publisher : Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824819101

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Language Learning Strategies Around the World by Rebecca L. Oxford Pdf

Author : Ahmed, Rashad,Al-kadi, Abdu,Hagar, Trenton
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799821182

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Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Ahmed, Rashad,Al-kadi, Abdu,Hagar, Trenton Pdf

In today’s modernized world, digital technology has taken the forefront in all aspects of society, including education. Students have access to numerous electronic devices, which has made online learning materials highly accessible. These technological impacts have blurred the distinction between formal and informal language learning methods. Informally learned English has lost proficiency when assessing student performance. Sizable research is necessary to study and understand the informal methods of language learning using technology. Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the implementation of technological opportunities within informal language teaching methods along with the drawbacks that limit its efficiency. While highlighting topics such as acculturation, student perception, and autonomous applications, this publication explores how learners perform ICT-based activities beyond the classroom and assesses the linguistic gains generated by informal ICT uses. This book is ideally designed for teachers, IT consultants, educational software developers, researchers, policymakers, and academic professionals seeking current research on technological techniques within second language learning and teaching.

Author : Orlova, Elena
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799826743

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Textbook Theory and Invariant Approaches to Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Orlova, Elena Pdf

The structure and content of a contemporary second language textbook are intended to encourage the initiative learner activity and create proper conditions for its manifestation in the curriculum. This premise unreservedly accepted by the teaching community proposes a flexible approach to second language acquisition encouraging individual self-learning experience. Textbook Theory and Invariant Approaches to Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly publication that examines the structure and function of current second language learning curricula and classrooms. The book pursues three main objectives, which include (1) reconstruction of the general conceptual framework of textbook theory; (2) systematization of the invariant approach applications; and (3) production of a set of concepts, principles, rules, and regularities underlying the invariant-based text development. Featuring a wide range of topics such as learning patterns, proficiency, and communication, this book is ideal for education professionals, academicians, professionals, researchers, curriculum designers, and students.

Author : Posavec, Kristina
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799836827

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Computer Corpora and Open Source Software for Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Posavec, Kristina Pdf

During the last four decades, a corpus-based approach to language teaching has become very significant. Direct use of corpora in language pedagogy is limited by certain factors: time, the lecturer’s knowledge and skills needed to analyze the corpus, access to sources such as computers and appropriate computer tools, or a combination of these factors. The key to a successful corpus-based approach is in the appropriate level of the lecturer’s guidance or pedagogical mediation, which depends on student age, experience, and prior knowledge. It is therefore very important that lecturers be equipped with the necessary knowledge and education for using and analyzing corpora on a daily basis. Computer Corpora and Open Source Software for Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a cutting-edge research publication that analyzes teacher experiences in implementing computer corpora into their language learning classrooms in order to formulate additional insights as to best strategies for integrating such tools that maximizes language learning efficiency in primary and secondary education. Highlighting topics such as ICT tools, language education, and linguistics, this book is ideal for academicians, educators, computer science teachers, IT professionals, researchers, and students.

Author : Lindsay Miller,Junjie Gavin Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811626975

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Language Learning with Technology by Lindsay Miller,Junjie Gavin Wu Pdf

This book is about language learning with technology, offering readers theoretical insights as well as practical case studies with a focus on Asia and Asian students. Although technology is rapidly advancing and most, if not all, students are already using technology in their everyday lives, traditional teaching/learning practices still exist throughout Asia. This book provides examples, written by representative educators, from a variety of countries/regions and contexts where technology has successfully been used to enhance language learning. In addition to some everyday examples of using technology: Wikipedia, PowerPoint, Google Docs and YouTube, the book also offers the readers an insight into the future possible uses of advanced technology: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Eye Tracking. The book presents illustrations of how teachers can, and perhaps should, be open to integrating some form of technology into in-class learning or using it to supplement out-of-class activities.

Author : Orlova, Elena
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522582212

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An Invariant-Based Approach to Second Language Acquisition by Orlova, Elena Pdf

The challenge to improve second language acquisition efficiency has always been at the heart of education because a good command of a language provides new opportunities to manipulate information and apply acquired knowledge and skills to novel problems in new situations. Thus, there is a necessity for creating an alternative to either task-based or form-focused methods commonly employed in today’s instruction. An Invariant-Based Approach to Second Language Acquisition: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that elaborates on traditional 2L concepts and terms and provides new practical tools and mechanisms for developing student communicative competencies. Featuring research on topics such as syllabus design, language interpretation, and speech types, this book is ideally designed for educators, administrators, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Ramírez-Verdugo, M. Dolores,Otcu-Grillman, Bahar
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799846987

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Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Enhancing Teacher Education by Ramírez-Verdugo, M. Dolores,Otcu-Grillman, Bahar Pdf

Regardless of the discipline or country, creating quality education is multifaceted. At the center of any schooling practice are the educators, their schools, and the teacher education programs that license them. As the schools and faculties of education strive to provide the best practices to pre-service or in-service teachers, it becomes more critical to increase the quality of teacher education via various means to keep up with the demands of schooling in the 21st century. Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Enhancing Teacher Education provides an overview of how innovation and research experience can enhance teacher education programs with a focus on competencies, skills, and strategies future teachers will need to cope with while teaching students’ learning with diversity and facing linguistic, social, and environmental challenges. The book particularly investigates the potentiality of educational technology, innovative techniques, and digital storytelling to enhance education and bilingualism in intercultural contexts and multilingual settings. Covering topics that include performance assessment, teacher training, and professional development, and including many practical and diverse examples, this book is intended for TESOL, second or foreign language learning, and CUL programs and teacher-training institutions, as well as teachers, researchers, academicians, and students in interdisciplinary areas that include science, history, geography, language learning, bilingualism, intercultural competencies, classroom interaction, gamification, and educational technology.

Author : Aisha Walker,Goodith White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780194376013

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Technology Enhanced Language Learning: connecting theory and practice - Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers by Aisha Walker,Goodith White Pdf

How can you use technology for pedagogic purposes in the language classroom? Technology Enhanced Language Learning discusses how the use of technology opens up opportunities for learning, how it enables different types of learning, and how it affects language use.

Author : Huertas-Abril, Cristina-Aránzazu,Gómez-Parra, María Elena
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799812210

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International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap by Huertas-Abril, Cristina-Aránzazu,Gómez-Parra, María Elena Pdf

In the age of information, an essential priority in the context of international education is the development of language learning and its inconsistencies. The gap between language and education has intermittently grown through time, with mistaken assumptions about how linguistic shortcomings are being solved around the world. Research on comparative educational approaches to teaching verbiage and the foundation of future language development are instrumental in positively impacting the global narrative of dialectal education. International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of second language teaching as well as social developments regarding intercultural learning. While highlighting topics including curricular approaches, digital competence, and linguistic disparities, this book is ideally designed for language instructors, linguists, teachers, researchers, public administrators, cultural centers, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the latest advancements of multilingual education.

Author : Ekaterina Nemtchinova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000826012

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Enhancing Beginner-Level Foreign Language Education for Adult Learners by Ekaterina Nemtchinova Pdf

This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses. Built around a diverse range of international research studies and conceptual articles, the book covers four key issues in teaching language to novice students: development of linguistic skills, communicative and intercultural competence, evaluation and assessment, and the use of technology. Each chapter includes teaching insights that are supported by critical research and can be practically applied across languages to enhance instructional strategies and curriculum designs. The text also aims to build intercultural competence, harness technology, and design assessment to stimulate effective learning in formal instructional settings, including colleges, universities, and specialist language schools. With its broad coverage of language pedagogy at the novice level, this book is a must read for graduate students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, and applied linguistics.

Author : Yeromin, Mykola Borysovych
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799838098

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Universal Codes of Media in International Political Communications: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Yeromin, Mykola Borysovych Pdf

Much like different lenses will give a camera a different view, different forms of media portray different aspects of political relations. Without conveyed messages through audiovisual media, individuals would lose those conveyed messages through sub-textual means. Universal Codes of Media in International Political Communications: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of audiovisual media and applications within political science. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as media representation, political studies, and international communications, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, administrators, and government officials.

Author : Elena Martín-Monje,Izaskun Elorza,Blanca García Riaza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317310907

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Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains by Elena Martín-Monje,Izaskun Elorza,Blanca García Riaza Pdf

Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains provides an exploration of the latest developments in technology-enhanced learning and the processing of languages for specific purposes. It combines theoretical and applied research from an interdisciplinary angle, covering general issues related to learning languages with computers, assessment, mobile-assisted language learning, the new language massive open online courses, corpus-based research and computer-assisted aspects of translation. The chapters in this collection include contributions from a number of international experts in the field with a wide range of experience in the use of technologies to enhance the language learning process. The essays have been brought together precisely in recognition of the demand for this kind of specialised tuition, offering state-of-the-art technological and methodological innovation and practical applications. The topics covered revolve around the practical consequences of the current possibilites of mobility for both learners and teachers, as well as the applicability of updated technological advances to language learning and teaching, particularly in specialized domains. This is achieved through the description and discussion of practical examples of those applications in a variety of educational contexts. At the beginning of each thematic section, readers will find an introductory chapter which contextualises the topic and links the different examples discussed. Drawing together rich primary research and empirical studies related to specialized tuition and the processing of languages, Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, computer assisted language learning, languages and linguistics, and language teaching.

Author : Hayo Reinders,Christine Coombe,Andrew Littlejohn,Dara Tafazoli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030134136

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Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching by Hayo Reinders,Christine Coombe,Andrew Littlejohn,Dara Tafazoli Pdf

This edited collection presents a study of innovation in teaching, learning, assessment and teacher development practices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The thirteen research-based chapters in this collection examine recent innovations in English language teaching, drawing on classroom, administrative and learning experiences from seven of the countries in the region. The major trends analyzed across the volume include the language skills of reading and writing and the prevalence of technology and technology-enhanced instruction. It highlights that innovative teaching, learning and assessment practices that are now in place in virtually all levels of English language teaching and learning from primary school to university to adult education sectors, and reflects on possible ways forward for innovation in the field of ELT. This book will provide valuable insight for scholars of applied linguistics and practitioners working in language policy,