Computers and language learning: misguided assumptions |
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| Authors: | Curt Dudley-Marling Dennis Searle |
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| Institution: | Curt Dudley-Marling is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Computers in Education.;Dennis Searle is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada. |
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| Abstract: | There has been a rapid increase in the availability of computer assisted instruction (CAI) software for teaching oral language skills. Despite the growing popularity of CAI in education, such an approach to language teaching fragments and isolates language learning from the context of its use and conflicts with current theory and research in language development and learning. The greatest potential for microcomputers in language learning may be as a medium for increasing student opportunities for using language by bringing students and teachers together around a shared activity. |
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