CALL Essentials: Principles and Practices in CALL Classrooms - Softcover

Egbert, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931185158 ISBN 13: 9781931185158

Publisher: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Incorporated (TESOL), 2005

Synopsis

Computers and the Internet offer innovative teachers exciting ways to enhance their pedagogy and capture their students’ attention. These technologies have created a growing field of inquiry, computerassisted language learning (CALL). As new technologies have emerged, teaching professionals have adapted them to support teachersand learners in the classroom. In CALL Essentials, seasoned practitioner Joy Egbert offers useful advice for teachers who want to integrate technology with theirteaching. She begins not with computers, however, but with the classroom conditions that foster effective language learning. Taking these conditions as a foundation for effective pedagogy, she shows teachers how to use technology to create ""a whole learning environment"" with their students.

• Written for working teachers in an accessible, down-to-earth style
• Describes pedagogically sound activities using software, Web sites, and Internet-based resources
• Includes suggestions and advice from other teachers using technology in their classrooms
• Ideas and principles are easily applicable to teaching other languages and mainstream content

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Incorporated (TESOL)
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931185158
• ISBN 13: 9781931185158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206