Network-Based Language Teaching: Concepts and Practice
Edited by Mark Warschauer and Richard Kern

This important new book provides a critical collection of research in on-line communication for second language learning, including uses of electronic mail, real-time writing, and the World Wide Web.  Chapters analyze the theories underlying computer-assisted learning, explore the contexts that affect network-based teaching, and examine the linguistic nature of computer-mediated interaction in both textual and multimedia environments.  Each chapter has been specially written for this collection by an individual who has done extensive research on the topic explored. The work of these contributors has resulted in a highly readable but in-depth analysis of the way that on-line communication is reshaping language teaching.  Network-Based Language Teaching will be of vital interest to language educators and researchers, as well as to readers with a general interest in
linguistics, computer-mediated communication, and education.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Theory and Practice of Network-Based Language Teaching Richard Kern and Mark Warschauer

Chapter 2 Curriculum Innovation in TEFL: Technologies Supporting Socio-Collaborative Language Learning in Bulgaria Carla Meskill and Krassimira Ranglova

Chapter 3 Online Learning in Second Language Classrooms: An Ethnographic Study Mark Warschauer

Chapter 4 Negotiation in Cyberspace: The Role of Chatting  in the Development of Grammatical Competence Jill Pellettieri

Chapter 5 Writing into Change: Style-Shifting in Asynchronous Electronic Discourse
Boyd Davis and Ralf Thiede

Chapter 6 Computers and Collaborative Writing in the Foreign Language Curriculum  Jean Marie Schultz

Chapter 7 Networked Multimedia Environments for Second Language Acquisition Dorothy M. Chun and Jan L. Plass

Chapter 8 An Electronic Literacy Approach to Network-Based Language Teaching
Heidi Shetzer and Mark Warschauer

Chapter 9 Task-Based Language Learning via Audio-Visual Networks: The LEVERAGE Project Christoph Zähner, Agnès Fauverge, and Jan Wong

Chapter 10 Is Network-Based Learning CALL? Carol A. Chapelle

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256 pages
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