Journal Article

Technology in Language Use, Language Teaching, and Language Learning

Chun, Dorothy, Smith, Bryan, Kern, Richard

2016

Overview

This article offers a capacious view of technology to suggest broad principles relating technology and language use, language teaching, and language learning. The first part of the article considers some of the ways that technological media influence contexts and forms of expression and communication. In the second part, a set of heuristic questions is proposed to help guide language teachers and researchers in determining how to incorporate technology into their teaching practice or research agenda and evaluate its suitability and impact. These questions are based primarily on the goal of helping learners to pay critical attention to the culturally encoded connections among forms, contexts, meanings, and ideologies that they will encounter and produce in different mediums, both traditional and new.

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,Wiley Subscription Services, Inc,Wiley-Blackwell
• Subject: affordances / Computer assisted language learning / Computer mediated communications / Context Effect / Correlation / Cultural Influences / Educational Practices / electronically mediated communication / Emerging technology / Foreign language learning / Heuristic / Heuristics / Ideology / Influence of Technology / Information technology / Language / Language acquisition / Language arts learning / Language instruction / Language Teachers / Language teaching methods / Language Usage / Learning / Literacy / Mass media / multiliteracies / Nonnative languages / Second Language Instruction / Second Language Learning / Second language teachers / Suitability / Teachers / Teaching / Technology / Technology Integration / Telecommunications / Written communication