Language, Learning & Technology articles from January 2005

Language, Learning & Technology archives from January 2005

From the editors.
January 1, 2005... Happy New Year! Welcome to our special issue on Technology and Young Learners, a theme that runs throughout the articles, commentary, and columns of this issue. Special thanks go to Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear for serving as guest...

From the special issue editors.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... The papers published in this issue of Language Learning and Technology are indicative of current research and exploratory intervention work dealing with the use of new technologies in language learning contexts involving children, teachers, and...

On the net: lets go to the zoo! Sites for young language learners.
January 1, 2005... While the debate over the optimal age for second language (L2) acquisition continues into the 21st century--that is, whether or not there is a clearly established critical period beyond which L2 learning cannot take place--most people believe...

Emerging technologies: messaging, gaming, peer-to-peer sharing: language learning strategies & tools for the millennial generation.
January 1, 2005... Marc Prensky likes to characterize the members of the millennial generation as "Digital Natives," for whom the Internet and new forms of digital communication are second nature, in contrast to the older "Digital Immigrants," who may have...

News from sponsoring organizations.
January 1, 2005... Sponsors University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)...

Review of Technology and Teaching English Language Learners.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Technology and Teaching English Language Learners Mary Ellen Butler-Pascoe & Karin M. Wiburg 2003 ISBN 0-205-32677-3 US $38.80 246 pp. Allyn and Bacon / Pearson Boston, Massachusetts, USA Support materials...

Review of Internet for English Teaching.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Internet for English Teaching Mark Warschauer, Heidi Shetzer, & Christine Meloni 2000 ISBN 0-939791-88-9 178 + ix pp. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. 700 South Washington Street, Suite 200 ...

Child-to-child interaction and corrective feedback in a computer mediated L2 class.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The current study examined the provision of corrective feedback and learner repair following feedback in the interactional context of child-to-child conversations, particularly computer mediated, in an elementary Spanish immersion...

Triadic scaffolds: tools for teaching English language learners with computers (1).
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Active communication with others is key to human learning. This straightforward premise currently undergirds much theory and research in student learning in general, and in second language and literacy learning in particular. Both...

The design of effective ICT-supported learning activities: exemplary models, changing requirements, and new possibilities.(Information and Communication Technologies)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Despite the imperatives of policy and rhetoric about their integration in formal education, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are often used as an "add-on" in many classrooms and in many lesson plans. Nevertheless,...

Commentary: you're not studying, you're just ...
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT As often as language teachers lecture about the importance of continual practice to adolescent learners, the dullness of homework exercises designed primarily to be educational has difficulty competing with popular media designed...