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REVIEW: Call Teacher Education: Language Teachers and Technology Integration

Year 2017, Volume: 18 Issue: 3, 228 - 231, 01.07.2017

Abstract

As the title suggests, Simone Torsani’s book sets out to bridge the gap that exists between the theory and the practice about the integration of technology in distance language learning. The book is comprised of ten chapters with two sets of aims which are raising teachers’ awareness to computer-assisted materials and procedures about the integration of technology in distance language teaching. The chapters are structured to address different topics such as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) training activities, designing a computer assisted language learning course and processes in Computer Assisted Language Learning Teacher Education (CTE) for the internet. Above all, the technologically skilled teachers are associated with “the mythological character of Daedalus” in the introductory section (p. xvi). The book calls for all teacher trainers to put themselves in language teachers’ shoes in order to see computer-assisted language learning not independent from the language acquisition theory. Therefore, language teachers need to implement and practise developing online materials to address their learners’ linguistic difficulties.

References

  • Torsani, S. (2016). CALL Teacher Education: Language Teachers and Technology Integration. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. Warschauer, M. (1996). Computer assisted language learning: An introduction. In S. Fotos (Ed.), Multimedia Language Teaching (pp. 3–20). Tokyo: Logos International. Retrieved February 10, 2017 from http://www.ict4lt.org/en/warschauer.htm
Year 2017, Volume: 18 Issue: 3, 228 - 231, 01.07.2017

Abstract

References

  • Torsani, S. (2016). CALL Teacher Education: Language Teachers and Technology Integration. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. Warschauer, M. (1996). Computer assisted language learning: An introduction. In S. Fotos (Ed.), Multimedia Language Teaching (pp. 3–20). Tokyo: Logos International. Retrieved February 10, 2017 from http://www.ict4lt.org/en/warschauer.htm
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Yildiz Terzıoglu This is me

Publication Date July 1, 2017
Submission Date July 17, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2017 Volume: 18 Issue: 3

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APA Terzıoglu, Y. (2017). REVIEW: Call Teacher Education: Language Teachers and Technology Integration. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 18(3), 228-231.