Foreign Language Learning with Digital Technology

ISBN-13: 9781847060419 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 04/07/2009 Series: Education and Digital Technology Pages: 224 Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d) While digital technology is endlessly innovating and improving itself as a tool to support teaching and learning, the cognitive process of language learning itself remains perennially the same. However, digital technology has created new learning opportunities and introduces new elements into the cognitive process of foreign language learning. The contributors of this well-edited collection examine foreign language learning primarily from a user perspective and explore these underlying questions:How does digital technology support existing foreign language learning needs and processes?What new learning experiences does it entail for the learner? The book situates new insights into the value of digital technology for foreign language learning within the context of evidence from prior research and of educat