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9783540761921: CALL, Culture and The Language Curriculum
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ISBN 10: 3540761926 ISBN 13: 9783540761921
Editorial: Springer-Verlag, 1998

Sinopsis

A consensus seems to exist on the following. In foreign language acquisition methodology sound methods and efficient tools have been developed until now in order to allow the learner to master and put into practice grammar, basic vocabulary and frequent communicative rules. Within this area Computer­ Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has become an indispensable partner, often leading the game. Beyond these borders, however, methodology as a whole becomes more blurred. Rules seem to vanish, variation and specialisation increase. Intuitive and ad hoc approaches seem to take the lead on formally established methods. The reasons for this are obvious: how to control the enormous, ever changing and expanding set of data, links and encyclopedic information that we associate with a richly developed human language? In front of this overwhelming opponent the search for method often surrenders. This is the point where CALL could offer foreign language learning the opportunity to make another jump forward. Information technology is capable of handling and streamlining huge and complex amounts of information. But this is also the point where language crosses the border of the purely linguistic fact, and where language learning has to come to terms with what we would call "cultural" issues.

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A consensus seems to exist on the following. In foreign language acquisition methodology sound methods and efficient tools have been developed until now in order to allow the learner to master and put into practice grammar, basic vocabulary and frequent communicative rules. Within this area Computer­ Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has become an indispensable partner, often leading the game. Beyond these borders, however, methodology as a whole becomes more blurred. Rules seem to vanish, variation and specialisation increase. Intuitive and ad hoc approaches seem to take the lead on formally established methods. The reasons for this are obvious: how to control the enormous, ever changing and expanding set of data, links and encyclopedic information that we associate with a richly developed human language? In front of this overwhelming opponent the search for method often surrenders. This is the point where CALL could offer foreign language learning the opportunity to make another jump forward. Information technology is capable of handling and streamlining huge and complex amounts of information. But this is also the point where language crosses the border of the purely linguistic fact, and where language learning has to come to terms with what we would call "cultural" issues.

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What does it mean to learn a language within a broad cultural context? What does it mean, moreover, to learn a language within the cultural framework of CALL technologies? Whereas there seems to be general understanding and tacit consensus over the importance of culture in the language curriculum tout court, if foreign language education has as one of its objectives the fostering of cross-cultural awareness and self-realisa tion, can we be certain that such an objective may eventually be achieved with the use of the technology? We feel that what we have to do is not just define precisely what we understand by "cultural context", but also consider whether discourse practices can be taught by technological means without reducing them to simply mechanical drill-and-practice exercises. In order to provide a forum for highly focused discussions this book contains contributions from practitioners in language teaching involved in the integration of non-specific linguistic information into the language curriculum by means of Educational Technologies (ET). Information technology indeed helps to bridge carious sorts and levels of information that do not always blend easily together by making available an íntegration tool'where input from different sources can be monitored and to which access can be had at the correct time and place. This book will be of interest to academics and university administrators involved with curriculum development and methodology in the field of foreign language teaching as well as for teachers who want to extend their growing computer abilities into the fi eld of cultural studies and researchers and students in the humanities who will want to use it as a reference book.

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Editorial
Springer-Verlag
Año de publicación
1998
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
3540761926
ISBN 13 
9783540761921
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Número de páginas
184
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