Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom

10.6120/JoEMLS.200406_41(4).0004.RS.CE

Karen Wolz Verkler

Instructional media ； Technology integration ； Educational technology

教育資料與圖書館學

41卷4期（2004 / 06 / 01）

455 - 478

英文

Although national standards such as the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, 1999) and the National Educational Technology Standards (ISTE, 2000) advocate the need for enhanced curricular integration of technology, the reality is that colleges of education nationally are inconsistent in the technology requirements demanded of its preservice teachers. In addition, current foreign language pedagogy supports the use of technology to increase the opportunities for communicative practice in three contexts: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes. To prepare its majors for the increasingly technologically complex demands of the field of education, the foreign language education program at a large, metropolitan Central Florida university developed and implemented a technology course that uniquely addressed concerns of foreign language educators. In this article, the author details the course objectives, content, activities, and assignments.

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