Technology Enhanced Language Learning

Understand why and how you can use technology to enhance learning in the language classroom.Technology Enhanced Language Learning helps you understand the theories and issues that underpin using technology with learners, allowing you to integrate the technology of today - and tomorrow - into teaching and learning in a principled way. The authors put a particular emphasis on language skills as, in their view, technology ''radically changes the nature of the language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) which learners use and need. ... For example, reading on screen is not the same as reading paper texts ... digital texts are multimodal, fluid, and combine words with images, video, and sound. There is an interaction and overlap between the different aspects of multimodal texts and this has implications for how learners read and make sense of digital documents.'' The book is organized into twelve chapters: Chapter 1: Provides an overview of the theories underpinning learning and language learning with technology. Chapter 2: Considers how technology pro