1st Edition

Language Learning Online: Towards Best Practice

Edited By Uschi Felix Copyright 2003
232 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

232 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

This important and accessible book identifies the key elements in the quest for best practice in online language teaching. The authors, all of them international experts who have made significant contributions to the debate about how to exploit the new technologies, consider online language teaching from three crucial perspectives: design, tools and pedagogy. Their recommendations are such that... Read more

Foreword
Contributors
INTRODUCTION
1 An orchestrated vision of language learning online

Uschi Felix
DESIGN
2 Language learning online: designing towards user acceptability

Dominique Hémard
3 Optimising web course design for language learners
Robert Godwin-Jones
TOOLS
4 Servers, clients, testing and teaching

Stewart Arneil and Martin Holmes
5 Engaging the learner – how to author for best feedback
Paul Bangs
6 MOO as a language learning tool
Lesley Shield
7 Virtual worlds as arenas for language learning
Patrik Svensson
PEDAGOGY
8 Pedagogy on the line: identifying and closing the missing links

Uschi Felix
9 Using internet-based audio-graphic and video conferencing for
language teaching and learning

Regine Hampel and Eric Baber
10 Perspectives on offline and online training initiatives
Graham Davies
Index

Biography

Uschi Felix, Monash University, Australia.