1st Edition

Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies Creativity and CALL Teacher Education

By Michael Thomas, Christel Schneider Copyright 2020
250 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the language classroom. The volume builds on existing literature on project-based language learning by extending the focus on the affordances of... Read more

Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Glossary

List of Tables

List of Figures

 

1. Introduction

2. Immersive Education and Machinima

3. Technology-Mediated Project-Based Language Teaching

4. Creating and Field-Testing Machinima in the Language Classroom

5. Evaluating a Machinima CALL Teacher Education Course

6. Afterword: Implications for Project-based Teaching and Creativity

References

Appendices

Index

Biography

Michael Thomas is Professor of Education in the School of Education and Chair of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Christel Schneider is the managing director and founder of CSiTrain and a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.