Brave New Digital Classroom, Enhanced Ebook Edition

Brave New Digital Classroom examines the most effective ways to utilize technology in language learning. The author deftly interweaves the latest results of pedagogical research with descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to show how to implement technology in the foreign-language curriculum to assist the second language acquisition process. Directed at elementary to postsecondary language teachers, the book is ideal for graduate-level courses on pedagogy and an invaluable reference for experienced researchers, CALL developers, and administrators.This new enhanced ebook edition features the full text plus eight videos, including three talks by the author; an interview with Claire Kramsch on using the internet to teach culture; Phil Hubbard on criteria for evaluating CALL software; Rick Kern discussing telecollaboration and CMC exchanges with two students; Gabriel Guillen on tandem learning and social networks; and Paul Rama on games and gaming.