Second language teaching and learning in the Net Generation

    Oxford, Raquel & Oxford, Jeffrey (Eds.)

    Oxford, R., & Oxford, J. T. (2009). Second language teaching and learning in the Net Generation. Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

    “…the information the authors give on the content of the podcast tasks is pure gold and essential reading”

    —System

    “…this book can function as a useful practical resource for instructors working in intensive language programs…”
    —Language Learning & Technology

    Today’s young people—the Net Generation—have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot assume that students’ familiarity with technology in general transfers successfully to pedagogical settings. This volume examines various technologies and offers concrete advice on how each can be successfully implemented in the second language curriculum.

    Contents

    Abbreviations Used In This Book
    Introduction
    Raquel Oxford & Jeffrey Oxford
    1 (Re)situating the Role(s) of New Technologies in World-Language Teaching and Learning
    Rémi A. van Compernolle & Lawrence Williams
    2 Internet and Language Teaching/Learning: Reflections on
    Online Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Foreign-Language Instruction
    Ana Niño
    3 Digital Natives and Their Self-Rated Electronic Literacy Skills: Empirical Findings From a Survey
    Study in German Secondary Schools
    Carolin Fuchs
    4 Hybridizing the Curriculum: Needs, Benefits, Challenges,
    and Attitudes
    Senta Goertler
    5 Reaching Students: A Hybrid Approach to Language Learning
    Lauren Rosen
    6 The Influence of Technology on Second-Language Writing
    Raquel Oxford
    7 Podcasting and the Intermediate-Level Spanish Classroom
    Nancy Bird-Soto & Patricia Rengel
    8 Podcasting in the Language Classroom: Inherently Mobile or Not?
    Lara Ducate & Lara Lomicka
    9 The Coalescence of Spanish Language and Culture Through Blogs
    and Films
    Vanessa Lazo-Wilson & Clara Inés Lozano Espejo
    10 Pragmatic Variation Among Learners of French in Real-Time
    Chat Communication
    Claire A. McCourt
    11 These Horses Can Fly! and Other Lessons From Second Life:
    The View from a Virtual Hacienda
    Gloria B. Clark
    12 A New Language for the Net Generation: Why Second Life Works for the Net Generation
    Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz
    13 Web-Based Language Portfolios and the Five Cs: Implementation in Foreign Language
    College Classrooms
    Jane Blyth Warren.
    14 Awakening to the Power of Video-Based Web-Conferencing Technology to Promote Change
    Paula Charbonneau-Gowdy