EAN: 9783039105670

LANGUAGE AUTONOMY AND THE NEW LEARNING ENVIRONM...

The emergence of new learning environments  technological and institutional  implies a need for
language understanding and autonomous learning. What do they mean? Why are they necessary? How
do they interrelate? This book looks at these questions. The authors consider mother tongue and
second foreign language education in relation to 'language understanding'  which includes
formal knowledge and an ability to use language communicatively  and should cover the 'new'
literacies. Autonomous language learning has been interpreted in various ways  and setting
language understanding as a goal allows some of these (such as 'training' models) to be
challenged and others endorsed. Some implications of the information society for education are
considered. Learning increasingly takes place outside educational establishments  and the
authors examine changes from face-to-face teacher-student interaction to mixed-mode and
distance learning. The new environments create new possibilities  such as knowledge
construction through computer-mediated interaction and learner autonomy in online networks  and
these are explored. Throughout the book  the centrality of the teacher's role is affirmed  as
educator and guide on autonomous second foreign language programmes  and as a moderator of
online discussions and a designer of online materials.

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