Teaching Language and Teaching Literature in Virtual Environments

Description

This book sheds new light on language and literature teaching, and offers examples of teaching language in virtual environments. Providing an overview of virtual environments for teaching, it also includes chapters devoted to methodology design for second language teaching in these environments. Further it describes tools for second/ foreign language teaching and proposals for specific second language teaching in virtual environments. Lastly, it presents experiments on literature teaching in virtual environments and discusses the future of technology in education. With interdisciplinary appeal, the book is a particularly valuable resource for scholars with an interest in technology, language teaching and literature teaching. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Using Technology for Second Language Vocabulary Learning (María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz, Antonio Sarasa-Cabezuelo)....Pages 3-20 Practicing the Oral Production Skills in E-Learning Contexts: Is It Still an Achilles’ Heel? (Alessandra Giglio)....Pages 21-37 Language Learning in the Virtual Wild (Iwona B. Lech, Lindsay N. Harris)....Pages 39-54 Best Practices in the Use of Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies for SLA: Design, Implementation, and Feedback (Olga Scrivner, Julie Madewell, Cameron Buckley, Nitocris Perez)....Pages 55-72 Integrating “Talk Abroad” into an Intermediate Foreign Language Course: Building Learner Autonomy and Engagement Through Video Conversations with Native Speakers (Catherine M. Sama, Yu Wu)....Pages 73-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 Teaching English by Skype: Theoretical and Practical Considerations from the Perspective of Serbian English Teachers (Marija Milojković)....Pages 97-119 FrameNet as a Resource to Teach Spanish as a Foreign Language (José Antonio Jódar-Sánchez)....Pages 121-149 Developing Soft Skills in Higher Education Foreign Language Programs. Initial Insights into Telecollaboration (María Victoria Guadamillas Gómez)....Pages 151-162 A Comparative Analysis of Two Online Videoconferencing Initiatives for Conversational Practice with Native Speakers (Megan Mercedes Echevarría)....Pages 163-179 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Cognitive Approach to Adaptive Testing Implementation in Virtual Maritime English Language Learning Environment Based on a Spaced Repetition System (María-Araceli Losey-León, Antonio Balderas)....Pages 183-202 Teacher Training for CLIL in Higher Education Through Blended Learning (María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro, Margarida Morgado, Marcelo Gaspar, Mónica Régio)....Pages 203-225 Project-Based Learning in a Virtual Classroom: The Case of English for Tourism Communication (Elena Alcalde Peñalver)....Pages 227-237 Front Matter ....Pages 239-239 Digital Storytelling in Teacher Training: Development of Basic Competences, Creativity and Multimodal Literacy Through Book Trailers (Noelia Ibarra-Rius, Josep Ballester-Roca)....Pages 241-254 Teaching Poetry Through Songs in a Virtual Environment: From Students’ Reluctance to Their Acquiescence (Clara Marías, Elena Alcalde Peñalver, Antonio Portela Lopa)....Pages 255-275 Reflexion, Analysis and Language Practice: From Individual Critical Thinking to Collaborative Learning Using Blogs in a Literature Class (Marta Giralt, Liam Murray)....Pages 277-293