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This book -- Network Based Language Teaching: Concepts and Practice (info below) -- has been a long time in the making. Some of you might remember the first call for contributions I distributed several years ago. Rick and I are very happy with the way the book turned out. Last I heard, it's supposed to be off the press this week (November 8). I'll be interested in hearing comments from any readers, and I do encourage those interested to write book reviews. I've put the introductory chapter online (see link from http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/nblt.html), and comments are welcome on that as well. In the introduction, Rick and I try to distinguish between structural, cognitive, and sociocognitive approaches to language learning and their relationship to the use of computers and online networks. We also introduce the remaining chapters of the book.
Before I leave the topic of books, another new title that some of you may be interested in is Virtual Language Learning by Uschi Felix. Information available at <http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lc/lcpublcat.html>.
Mark
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Network-Based Language Teaching: Concepts and Practice
Edited by Mark Warschauer and Richard Kern
A new title in the Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistic Series Introductory chapter and ordering information available at: http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/nblt.html
This important new book provides a critical collection of research in on-line communication for second language learning, including uses of electronic mail, real-time writing, and the World Wide Web. Chapters analyze the theories underlying computer-assisted learning, explore the contexts that affect network-based teaching, and examine the linguistic nature of computer-mediated interaction in both textual and multimedia environments. Each chapter has been specially written for this collection by an individual who has done extensive research on the topic explored. The work of these contributors has resulted in a highly readable but in-depth analysis of the way that on-line communication is reshaping language teaching. Network-Based Language Teaching will be of vital interest to language educators and researchers, as well as to readers with a general interest in linguistics, computer-mediated communication, and education.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Theory and Practice of Network-Based Language Teaching
Richard Kern and Mark Warschauer
Chapter 2 Curriculum Innovation in TEFL: Technologies Supporting Socio-Collaborative Language Learning in Bulgaria
Carla Meskill and Krassimira Ranglova
Chapter 3 Online Learning in Second Language Classrooms: An Ethnographic Study
Mark Warschauer
Chapter 4 Negotiation in Cyberspace: The Role of Chatting in the Development of Grammatical Competence
Jill Pellettieri
Chapter 5 Writing into Change: Style-Shifting in Asynchronous Electronic Discourse
Boyd Davis and Ralf Thiede
Chapter 6 Computers and Collaborative Writing in the Foreign Language Curriculum
Jean Marie Schultz
Chapter 7 Networked Multimedia Environments for Second Language Acquisition
Dorothy M. Chun and Jan L. Plass
Chapter 8 An Electronic Literacy Approach to Network-Based Language Teaching
Heidi Shetzer and Mark Warschauer
Chapter 9 Task-Based Language Learning via Audio-Visual Networks: The LEVERAGE Project
Christoph Zähner, Agnès Fauverge, and Jan Wong
Chapter 10 Is Network-Based Learning CALL?
Carol A. Chapelle
Ordering Information:
256 pages
$22.95 paperback (ISBN 0-521-66742-9)
$54.95 hardback (ISBN 0-521-66136-6)
Available from Cambridge University Press, Amazon.com or bn.com
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