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Contemporary computer-assisted language learning
This is a state-of-the-art reference volume on contemporary computer-assisted language learning, including chapters on research and methodology by leading international figures in the field.
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Digital Games and Language Learning
Due to the rapid development of gaming technologies in recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the role that digital games can play in foreign and second language learning. Bringing together innovative research from an international team of contributors, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of digital games in computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The book firstly lays the theoretical foundations and outlines various rationales for using digital games, incorporating contemporary theories of second language acquisition. It also explores the development and impact of digital games designed specifically for language learning, giving due consideration to design principles, pedagogical requirements and student health. Chapters then draw on case studies from Europe and Japan to analyse in-game interaction, attitudes and participation in both institutional and out-of-classroom settings. Seamlessly combining theory with practical application, this book outlines recent developments in the field and the direction of future research, and is a valuable resource for instructors, researchers and practitioners who are designing games or looking to use them in their classrooms.
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Contemporary Task-Based Language Teaching in Asia
Over the last decade task-based approaches to language learning and teaching (TBLT) have become a global focus of increased levels of research. Governments around the world have turned to TBLT as a potential solution for curricula that lack authentic and meaningful engagement with language learning and are failing to motivate students as a result. This book focuses on Asia, where this shift has been particularly in evidence. TBLT has often been implemented in top-down approaches to curriculum development, which presents a huge range of challenges at the cultural as well as the pedagogic level. Contemporary Task Based Language Teaching in Asia looks at the drivers, stakeholders and obstacles across the region. Some countries have adapted TBLT to deal with the local constraints, others have found it hard to apply and many are still in the process of investigating its implementation in their specific contexts. This collection is important to all involved in language development, from curriculum reform to materials development. It assists from programme evaluation to the setting of assessment standards. The chapters cover all aspects of language education across Asia, from primary to tertiary, private and public education, as well as innovations at local, regional and national levels.
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Task-based language learning and teaching with technology
This edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learning. TBLT is concerned with a number of macro-tasks such as information gathering and problem-solving as well as evaluative tasks, all of which are increasingly available via online and Web-based technologies. Technology.
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Deconstructing Digital Natives
There have been many attempts to define the generation of students who emerged with the Web and new digital technologies in the early 1990s. The term \"digital native\" refers to the generation born after 1980, which has grown up in a world where digital technologies and the internet are a normal part of everyday life. Young people belonging to this generation are therefore supposed to be \"native\" to the digital lifestyle, always connected to the internet and comfortable with a range of cutting-edge technologies.
Deconstructing Digital Natives offers the most balanced, research-based view of this group to date. Existing studies of digital natives lack application to specific disciplines or conditions, ignoring the differences of educational fields and gender. How, and how much, are learners changing in the digital age? How can a more pluralistic understanding of these learners be developed? Contributors to this volume produce an international overview of developments in digital literacy among today's young learners, offering innovative ways to steer a productive path between traditional narratives that offer only complete acceptance or total dismissal of digital natives.
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Under the Shade of Thipaak
The important cultural role of an ancient, endangered
plant
Under the Shade of Thipaak is the first book to explore
the cultural role of cycads, plants that evolved over 250 million
years ago and are now critically endangered, in the ancient and
modern Mesoamerican and Caribbean worlds. This volume demonstrates
how these ancient plants have figured prominently in regional
mythologies, rituals, art, and foodways from the
Pleistocene-Holocene transition to the present.
Contributors discuss the importance of cycads from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives, including biology and population
genetics, historical ecology, archaeology, art history,
linguistics, and conservation and sustainability. Chapters pay
special attention to the enduring conceptual relationships between
cycads and maize. This book demonstrates how a close examination of
cycad-human relationships can motivate conservation of these
threatened plants in ways that engage local communities, as well as
promote the significance of ancient and modern practices that unite
nature and culture .
Contributors : Francisco Barona-Gómez | Emanuel
Bojorquez Quintal | Mark A. Bonta | Edder Daniel Bustos-Díaz |
Dánae Cabrera-Toledo | Michael Calonje | Michael D. Carrasco |
Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo | Joshua D. Englehardt | Jorge
González-Astorga | Naishla M. Gutiérrez-Arroyo | José Saíd
Gutiérrez-Ortega | Thomas Hart | Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez | Francisco
Pérez-Zavala | Luis Rojas Abarca | Esteban Sánchez Rodríguez |
Dennis William Stevenson | Amber M. VanDerwarker | Luis R.
Velázquez Maldonado | Andrew P. Vovides
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Reinventing rural
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas are finding new ways to sustain themselves. This involves a new emphasis on environmental protection, as one important strategy has been to capitalize on natural amenities to attract residents and tourists. Beyond improvements to the economy are general improvements to the quality-of-life in rural communities. Consistent with this, the volume focuses on the two cornerstones of education and health, considering current challenges and offering ideas for reinventing rural quality-of-life.
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