PDF Free Download | English Language Learning and Technology Lectures on Applied Linguistics in the Age of Information by Carol A. Chapelle
Contents of English Language Learning and Technology
- Chapter The changing world of English language teaching
- Visions of the invisible
- The technologist’s vision
- The social pragmatist’s vision
- The critical analyst’s perspective
- Visioning the future of ELT
- English language learners
- Motivation for English use with peers
- Technology-shaped registers of English use
- Communicative language ability for the st century
- English language teachers
- The English language
- The study of language
- Tasks for language learning
- New forms of assessments
- Research on learning
- Teacher education and applied linguistics
- Applied linguistics
- Technology
- Research methods
- Critical analysis
- Conclusion
- Chapter The potential of technology for language learning
- Language learning and instruction
- Insights from the classroom and materials
- Insights from theory and research
- Enhanced input
- Input salience
- Input modification
- Input elaboration
- Enhanced input for CALL
- Interaction
- Theoretical perspectives on interaction
- Interaction in CALL
- Linguistic production
- Theoretical perspectives on production
- Production in CALL tasks
- Integrating input, interaction, and production into tasks
- Conclusion
- Chapter Evaluating language learning
- Reconsidering research
- Making a case for technology
- Increasing professional knowledge
- Advice from the field
- What is research?
- General vs. specific knowledge
- Research methodology
- Theory-research links
- Examples of useful CALL research
- Focus on software
- Focus on the learners
- Focus on the learning task
- Summary
- Research methods
- The role of theory
- Theory as a resource
- Theory as a limitation
- Chapter Investigating learners’ use of technology
- Technology-related process data
- Examples of process data
- Implementing process research
- Notation for the data
- Description
- Interaction analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Conversation analysis
- Issues in description
- Use of description
- Interpretation
- Inferences about capacities
- Inferences about tasks
- Inferences about capacities and tasks
- Critical discourse analysis
- Validity issues for inferences
- Evaluation
- The problem of evaluation
- Process-based approaches
- Chapter Advancing applied linguistics: L learning tasks
- The study of Learning tasks
- Task evaluation
- task description
- Technology – mediated tasks
- Examples from the chat room
- Studying technology-based tasks