As computers become more widely used in schools, it is clear that they have the potential not just to support the achievement of conventional goals, but also to redefine what we mean by reading, writing and discussion. The contributors to Language, Classroom and Computers - all with experience of teaching about language and computers for The Open University - use teachers' accounts together with their own research to examine how the use of computers in school can affect the ways in which children learn and teachers teach. The first section looks at some generic aspects of computer use, focusing particularly on class management: individual and group learning, the role of the teacher as facilitator and co-learner and the problems of limited access. The second section examines the contribution of specific sorts of software package: word processing, e-mail, hypertext and so on to lanugage learning. This is a book for everyone who wants IT to add a new dimension to their teaching.
Author(s): P. Scrimshaw
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 208
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures and tables......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Teachers, learners and computers......Page 14
Theories of learning and information technology......Page 22
Computer-based activities in classroom contexts......Page 38
Collaborative learning with computers......Page 51
The teacher's role......Page 68
Access to learning: problems and policies......Page 86
Software: an underestimated variable?......Page 104
Cooperative writing with computers......Page 111
Communicating through computers in the classroom......Page 122
Text completion programs......Page 141
Computer-based approaches to second language learning......Page 156
Reading, writing and hypertext......Page 177
Researching the electronic classroom......Page 195
