Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies - Thomas, Michael

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Résumé :
This book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the language classroom....

Biographie:

Michael Thomas was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of North-Central Arkansas. He teaches composition and literature at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home. Poetry has sustained him as his true love and art since a child. He currently lives in Salem, Arkansas, with his wife, Kellie, and daughter, Sarah. His hobbies include reading, listening to music, hiking in the beautiful Ozark National Forest, and spending time with his children and six grandchildren....

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Glossary

List of Tables

List of Figures

1. Introduction

2. Immersive Education and Machinima

3. Technology-Mediated Project-Based Language Teaching

4. Creating and Field-Testing Machinima in the Language Classroom

5. Evaluating a Machinima CALL Teacher Education Course

6. Afterword: Implications for Project-based Teaching and Creativity

References

Appendices

Index