[PDF] Engaging Language Learners Through Call eBook

Author : Nike Arnold
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9781781798294

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Engaging Language Learners through CALL provides an updated overview of the field of computer-assisted language learning beginning with one chapter on the intersection of second language acquisition (SLA) research and CALL and another on online and hybrid language courses. The next eight chapters focus on the use of CALL for specific language skills or other learning goals and the volume concludes with a discussion of ways to evaluate courseware and apps. Each chapter contains preview questions, an overview of the most relevant and recent research, implications for teaching, assessment options, questions for reflection, case studies, and ideas for action research. While the fundamental lens for this volume is informed practice based on key theories and research, there are several themes that run throughout the chapters, including how technology creates unique learning opportunities and its ability to overcome constraints of time, space, and interlocutors, how CALL can facilitate the integration of applications originally developed for other purposes, and the high level of autonomous and student-centered activities that CALL provides. As these themes demonstrate, CALL provides an array of affordances and sometimes, challenges. It is our hope that this volume will continue to support readers in implementing a research-based CALL pedagogy and updating their practices as technology and research findings develop.

Author : Nike Arnold
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781781798287

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The theories and practices of SLA in CALL / Bonnie Youngs -- Normalizing online learning: adapting to a changing world of language teaching / Senta Goertler -- Culture and CALL / Sarah Guth et Francesca Helm -- Technology-enhanced listening: how does it look and what can we expect? / Maribel Montero Perez -- CALL and L2 reaching: current research and application / Alan Taylor -- Digital literacies as emergent multifarious repertoires / Jonathon Reinhardt et Steven Thorne -- Writing between the lines: acquiring writing skills and digital literacies through social tools / Ana Oskoz et Idoia Elola -- Interpersonal communication in intracultural CMC / Zsuzsana Abrams -- Targeting pronunciation (and perception) with technology / Mary Grantham O'Brien -- Communities: exploring digital games and social networking / Julie Sykes, Christopher L. Holden, Stephanie W.P. Knight -- Evaluation of courseware/tutorial apps and online resource websites / Philip Hubbard.

Author : Sarah Mercer
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 1108445934

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This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge, the book takes an applied approach, providing clear principles and practical strategies for teachers.

Author : Li, Shuai
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1466661755

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"This book provides empirical studies on theoretical issues and outcomes in regards to the integration of innovative technology into language teaching and learning, discussing empirical findings and innovative research using software and applications that engage learners and promote successful learning"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Aída Walqui
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807776858

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This book presents an ambitious model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for English Learners and other students identified to be in need of language and literacy support. Starting with the premise that conceptual, analytic, and language practices develop simultaneously as students engage in disciplinary learning, the authors argue for instruction that amplifies—rather than simplifies—expectations, concepts, texts, and learning tasks. The authors offer clear guidance for designing lessons and units and provide examples that demonstrate the approach in various subject areas, including math, science, English, and social studies. This practical resource will guide teachers through the coherent design of tasks, lessons, and units of study that invite English Learners (and all students) to engage in productive, meaningful, and intellectually engaging activity. “This book offers the most detailed guide available for designing instruction for students categorized as ELLs. Theoretically grounded and informed by years of implementation and study, this work is without equal in the field. I recommend the book enthusiastically as required reading in all teacher preparation programs.” —Guadalupe Valdés, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Stanford Graduate School of Education “Reflecting its title, this book is an amplification of what it means to provide the best learning opportunities for English Language learners. Drawing on classroom-based research, Amplifying the Curriculum offers many practical examples of intellectually engaging units and tasks. This innovative book belongs on the bookshelves of all teachers.” —Pauline Gibbons, UNSW Sydney “This timely book is a call to educators across the nation to integrate language, literacy, and disciplinary knowledge to improve the education of our new American students.” —Tatyana Kleyn, The City College of New York

Author : Joy L. Egbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135608393

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This work creates a foundation for the study and practice of computer-assisted language learning and provides an overview of ways to conceptualize and to conduct research in Call. It posits that all approaches to research have a place, and that researchers, teachers, and students have a role in the study of computer-enhanced language learning.

Author : Jeff Zwiers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1003843298

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Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.

Author : Maria-del-Mar Suárez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 3031278259

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This book focuses on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and provides advice on how to approach EFL teaching in the online context. Coronavirus has accelerated e-learning significantly and has highlighted the need of appropriate web tools that will allow teachers to present their material either synchronously or asynchronously, while also adequately assess their students. At the same time, there is a need of tools that can engage the students and motivate them to actively participate in the lesson. With e-learning being a rather new challenge for both teachers and students, this book provides research- and practice- based chapters with strategies, techniques, approaches, and methods which have proven to be successful in e-learning environments, maximizing their impact . Apart from presenting research results with strong pedagogical implications on online or blended English language learning and teaching, the book also trains educators on utilizing online tools and managing online learning environments and platforms.

Author : Christiane Lütge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000512436

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Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age addresses the growing significance of diversifying media in contemporary society and expands on current discourses that have formulated media and a multitude of literacies as integral objectives in 21st-century education. The book engages with epistemological and critical foundations of multiliteracies and related pedagogies for foreign language-learning contexts. It includes a discussion of how multimodal and digital media impact meaning-making practices in learning, the inherent potentials and challenges that are foregrounded in the use of multimodal and digital media and the contribution that (foreign) language education can provide in developing multiliteracies. The volume additionally addresses foreign language education across the formal educational spectrum: from primary education to adult and teacher education. This multifaceted volume presents the scope of media and literacies for foreign language education in the digital age and examples of best practice for working with media in formal language learning contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language teaching and learning, digital education, media education, applied linguistics and TESOL.

Author : Regine Hampel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1350340332

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This handbook draws together international perspectives on technology and its application to language teaching and learning, written and edited by leading scholars in the field. It meets the increasing demand for pedagogically-informed online language instruction, which is particularly important in the context of the effects that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the education sector on a global scale, as well as exploring language learning in informal and non-formal contexts. With contributions from5 continents and over 20 countries, including Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA, the book offers a thorough overview of the main influential theories and explores technology tools, approaches to research, and applications to practice. Carefully curated, this is an innovative and exciting volume for students, teachers, researchers and lecturers in language education.