5th edition ICT for Language Learning Conference Proceedings

Issue 5. Florence : Simonelli Editore – University Press, 2012.

“ICT for Language Learning Conference Proceedings 2012” focuses on sharing the most recent experience in the field of the application of ICT to language learning and teaching along the lines of the following topics:

• ICT based language teaching and learning approaches
• E-learning solutions for language teaching and learning
• Quality and innovation in language teaching and learning
• Monitoring and evaluation of language teaching and learning
• Recognition and validation of language skills
• Language teacher training
• Language learning to support international Mobility
• Multilingualism
• Language learning for specific purposes
• Studies in Second Language Acquisition
• CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning
• The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)

The European Language Label for the promotion of quality in language learning.

Chapters

From Podcast to Paragraph: Learning How to Write through Listening

Alentev N. S., , in: 5th edition ICT for Language Learning Conference ProceedingsIssue 5.: Florence: Simonelli Editore – University Press, 2012.

Contemporary teaching techniques for language and other subjects are heavily reliant on the communication-centered approach and information technologies [6]. The teacher- and student-podcasting phenomenon has already well established new ground for better and more sustainable results in acquiring listening comprehension skills in a language learning classroom. Despite the relative novelty of podcasting [4], the logic ...

Added: October 27, 2012

Audiobook in Advanced ESL Classroom: Developing Critical Listening

Talalakina E., , in: 5th edition ICT for Language Learning Conference ProceedingsIssue 5.: Florence: Simonelli Editore – University Press, 2012. P. 103–107.

In the era of abundance of ICT in education, the focus of academics is gradually shifting from initial urge for testing all possible emerging devices in order to improve learning process to a concern over potential overload with digital media and thus the need for its sifting. Foreign language learning is no exception. The fundamental ...

Added: January 20, 2013

Keywords: Innovation in teaching, skills development, foreign language instruction