Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers

Title: Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers
Author(s): Robert O’Dowd
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd
ISBN: 9781847690081
Date: 2007
Pages: 305
Size: 1.92 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This volume provides an introduction to online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging language learners in collaborative project work with partners from other cultures through the use of online communication technology. The chapters look at how online collaboration can be successfully integrated into the foreign language classroom and how it can contribute to the development of students' intercultural communicative competence.

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How to Teach English with Technology (eBook+CD-ROM)

Title: How to Teach English with Technology
Author(s): Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 978l405847735
Date: 2008
Pages: 194
Size: 388 Mb
Format: PDF + EXE
Quality: High
Language: British English

How to Teach English with Technology by Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly offers a clear, comprehensive, confidence-building introduction to the use of technology in the language classroom.

The book includes:
• a CD-ROM with video tutorials about how to use Webquests, Skype, Blogger, RSS, Second Life etc.
• information on how to set up internet-based project work
• instructions on how to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts etc.
• a guide to producing your own electronic materials

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Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works

Title: Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works
Author(s): Howard Pitler, Elizabeth R. Hubbell and Matt Kuhn
Publisher: ASCD
Date: 2007
Pages: 258
Size: 3.81 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

One of the most effective ways to implement the research-based instructional strategies from Classroom Instruction That Works is to use them with educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia, data collection tools, communication software, and the Internet. This book shows you how and gives you hundreds of lesson-planning ideas and strategies for every grade level and subject. Discover new educational tools that support research-based instruction, and learn ways to use technologies you already know to: [+/-]

• Create and use advance organizers and nonlinguistic representations
• Help students take notes, summarize content, and make comparisons
• Engage students in cooperative learning
• Help students generate and test hypotheses
• Support students in practicing new skills and doing homework
• Reinforce students? efforts through formative assessment and feedback

Getting this guide ensures you always know when to use educational technologies, which ones are best for a learning task, and how they help students use new learning strategies.

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Culture in the Communication Age

Title: Culture in the Communication Age
Editor: James Lull
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2002
Pages: 241
Size: 14.44 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Good, well-scanned, readable and OCRed
Language: English

Communication technology has become decisive in sociocultural transformations taking place worldwide. This book attempts to take full account of technological developments in contemporary cultural activity, including the nuances and subtleties of computer-mediated communication, but it considers the more directly experienced and 'non-rational' sides of life too. [+/-]

Gathers leading contributors from the fields of communication, cultural studies, anthropology, media studies, sociology and psychology to provide a series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the meaning of 'culture' in contemporary society.

About the Author
James Lull is Professor of Communication Studies at San Jose State University, California, and Adjust Research Professor at the University of Colina, Mexico. He is author or editor of ten books, including Media, Communication Culture: A Global Approach, Media Scandals, China Turned On and Inside Family Viewing.

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