Synopses & Reviews
Brave New Digital Classroom interweaves pedagogical research and descriptions of successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to explore how technology can best be employed in foreign-language curriculum. Directed to language teachers, this book focuses on using technology effectively. Blake urges teachers to move beyond functional competence, knowing how to use the tools, to first a critical competence, realizing what the various tools are good for, and ultimately a rhetorical competence, knowing how the tools will help transform the learning environment. This book examines the effective use of a range of technologies, from Internet sites through computer-mediated communication to distance learning. At the end of each chapter questions and activities demonstrate the learner-centered pedagogy Blake espouses. This book is ideal for graduate courses on second language pedagogy, and of interest to administrators seeking to develop and evaluate their own programs.