LANGUAGE&TECHNOLOGY

 

A Section to improve teaching and learning English as a foreign language;

 to learn about technology, the classroom, the school;

 to practice innovative methodologies of interest to classroom teachers, educationalists and language students.



Language learning and technology

 

Language learning has always received a great contribution by technology. Much research has been done to show how language learning is enhanced by the new technologies and the field of foreign or second language acquisition is where the need of more ideas is strongly felt.

 
The Portal PDF 

This site belongs to a project that implies the use of a  web site as a learning platform and to create a learning community. It could work as a 'portal', a gateway, to services or resources for teachers, educators and students interested in professional development and language learning.

 

Social media in the classroom

 

Researchers are studying the fact that people are logging on to social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin like never before. One of the reasons may be that social media offer numerous opportunities for both personal and professional purposes and have become an integral part of everyday life for millions of people around the world, infiltrating not only the world of teenage interaction but also business and education.

 
Support the Project MYMOOD PDF 

It is not so easy nowadays to develop an e-learning site that could integrate rather than substitute what is commonly made in class. The danger is to create something too professional that requires economic and intellectual effort and remains separate from everyday teaching. Another danger may be the creation of a container that could simplify and devaluate what happens in the complex process of teaching and learning.