Language, Classrooms and Computers - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138411183 ISBN 13: 9781138411180

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

As computers become more widely used in schools, it is clear that they have the potential not just to support the achievement of conventional goals, but also to redefine what we mean by reading, writing and discussion. The contributors to Language, Classroom and Computers - all with experience of teaching about language and computers for The Open University - use teachers' accounts together with their own research to examine how the use of computers in school can affect the ways in which children learn and teachers teach. The first section looks at some generic aspects of computer use, focusing particularly on class management: individual and group learning, the role of the teacher as facilitator and co-learner and the problems of limited access. The second section examines the contribution of specific sorts of software package: word processing, e-mail, hypertext and so on to lanugage learning. This is a book for everyone who wants IT to add a new dimension to their teaching.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Scrimshaw is Lecturer in Education at the Centre for Language and Communications, the Open University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138411183
• ISBN 13: 9781138411180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Scrimshaw Peter