Technology Enhanced Language Learning: connecting theory and practice - Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers

Technology Enhanced Language Learning: connecting theory and practice - Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
Author: Aisha Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-03-08
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 019437601X

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.

Social Justice Language Teacher Education

Social Justice Language Teacher Education
Author: Margaret R. Hawkins
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 184769425X

Social justice language teacher education is a response to the acknowledgement that there are social/societal inequities that shape access to learning and educational achievement. In social justice language teacher education, social justice is the driving force and primary organizational device for the teacher education agenda. What does “social justice” mean in diverse global locations? What role does English play in promoting or denying equity? How can teachers come to see themselves as advocates for equal educational access and opportunity? This volume begins by articulating a view of social justice teacher education, followed by language teacher educators from 7 countries offering theorized accounts of their situated practices. Authors discuss powerful components of practice, and the challenges and tensions of doing this work within situated societal and institutional power structures.

Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics

Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Author: Rebecca Hughes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230584586

Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of research into spoken language. They address some of the complex and rewarding opportunities offered by these emerging insights for language education and, specifically, for TESOL. They ask whether new data and evidence that spoken discourse is a distinctive genre will challenge existing language theories and teaching. What could be the practical outcomes for curriculum, teaching approaches, materials and assessment? A stimulating resource for researchers and for professional and student language teachers.

Going Mobile

Going Mobile
Author: Gavin Dudeney
Publisher: Delta Publishing Company(IL)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781909783065

Going Mobile explains, and then demonstrates with practical activities, how to use mobile devices in English Language Teaching in a principled and pedagogically sound way. It is a pioneering book, directed towards teachers - and therefore towards learners - in the age of the digital revolution, and it breaks new ground by offering much-needed support in our 21st-century classrooms. Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney are both prize-winning authors and leaders in the field of the pedagogy of digital technology, bringing their many years of experience and succeeding admirably in motivating teachers and teacher trainers in the following areas: How to take advantage of the hand-held devices now available; How to face the many challenges that stand in the way of success; How to incorporate the technology across our teaching institutions. Going Mobile contains three distinct parts which focus in turn on theory, practice and development: Part A introduces us to teaching with mobile devices, and the apps we can take advantage of. It covers the important questions we often ask, the issues we frequently face and the challenges we invariably encounter. Part B is full of classroom activities spread over five chapters - from a first analytical, yet entertaining, look at the use of mobile devices, to the staged and sensible exploitation of text, image, audio and, finally, video. Part C takes us further, both in our classes - by way of longer activities and projects - and in our institutions - where we are encouraged to incorporate mobile teaching and mobile learning progressively and systematically.

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Author: Keith Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351213849

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching provides an engaging, student-friendly guide to the field of foreign language learning and teaching. Aimed at students with no background in the area and taking a task-based approach, this book: introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of both learning and teaching; provides discussion and workshop activities throughout each chapter of the book, along with further reading and reflection tasks; deals with classroom- and task-based teaching, and covers lesson planning and testing, making the book suitable for use on practical training courses; analyses different learning styles and suggests strategies to improve language acquisition; includes examples from foreign language learning in Russian, French, and German, as well as English; is accompanied by a brand new companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/johnson, which contains additional material, exercises, and weblinks. Written by an experienced teacher and author, An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching is essential reading for students beginning their study in the area, as well as teachers in training and those already working in the field.

Bon Record

Bon Record
Author: Brian R. W. Lockhart
Publisher: Birlinn Limited
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781906566463

Aberdeen Grammar School has a long and distinguished history; its origins are obscure, but are believed to date from the late medieval period, which supports the claims that it is one of the oldest schools in Britain. Titled after the modern school motto, this book traces Aberdeen Grammar School’s fortunes from its beginnings, many centuries ago, through its recent transformation into a coeducational, comprehensive school, serving much of the central and western districts of Aberdeen City. In doing so, it also assesses the school’s contribution to the North-East of Scotland and pays tribute to more than 800 former pupils, who rank amongst Aberdeen’s past and current most notable citizens.

Comrades!

Comrades!
Author: Robert Service
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674025301

Service offers a history of communism, drawing the uncomfortable conclusion that the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compelling, this is a comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.