Toward a Theory of Technologically Assisted Language Learning/Instruction
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https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v13i4.19-43Keywords:
Technologically Assisted Language Learning/Instruction, Technologically Assisted Language Learning, Assisted Language Learning/Instruction, Language Learning/Instruction, Language Learning, Instruction, Learning, Technologically Assisted, Assisted Language Learning, Assisted, Langauge, TechnologicallyAbstract
The fundamental problem of language instruction is how to enable language learners to make sense of signs in a given target language. Working out that problem is crucial to a theory of how to employ various technologies. The latter range from the PC and its accessories to the information superhighway. Our question is how to conceptualize the use of such technologies in language instruction. In developing our theory, we are guided by past and present experience, and especially by previously attained successes in theory, practice, and research, but our view is toward the future. Our goal is to shape a conception that may help us to anticipate that future, perhaps to shape it, and, hopefully, at least to survive it. This presentation summarizes certain results from theory, research, and practice in technologically assisted language instruction aiming toward an integrated theory of what we are apt to be up to in the 21st century.1
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______. (1995). “Adding Abstract to Formal and Content Schemata: Results of Recent Work in Peircean Semiotics.” Applied Linguistics 16, 3, 273-304.
______. (1993). “Reasons Why Some Methods Work.” Methods that Work, edited by John W. Oller, Jr., 374-385. Boston: Heinle and Heinle.
______. And Dean H. Obrecht (1969). “The Psycholinguistic Principle of Informational Sequence: An Experiment in Second Language Learning.” International Review of Applied Linguistics 7, 169-174.
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Oller, John W., Sr. (1963-1965). El español por el mundo. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Films.
Schank, Roger C. (1993). Tell Me a Story. New York: Cha5rles Scribner and Sons.
Taira, Tatsuo (1993). “Episodes on the Computer.” Methods that Work, edited by John W. Oller, Jr., 309-319. Boston: Heinle and Heinle.
______. (1992). Episodic Organization and CALL: A Pragmatic Approach. Ph.D. thesis, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
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Wilkins, David (1994). “Recent Issues in Syllabus Design.” Forum lecture presented at the International Conference on TEFL Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the College English Teachers Association of Korea, July 22, 1994 at Inchon Memorial Hall, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. English Teaching 49, 41-56.
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Oller, J. W. (2013). Toward a Theory of Technologically Assisted Language Learning/Instruction. CALICO Journal, 13(4), 19-43. https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v13i4.19-43
