DEVELOPING A PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ICT USE IN LANGUAGES CLASSROOMS

Liam Morgan
University of Technology
Australia

This paper will examine the potential of classroom-based technologies from the perspective of foreign language teaching. Drawing on research conducted with final year teacher–education students and recent work in this area by Baumgartner (2004), Bartlett-Bragg (2004) and others, this paper will outline a theoretical framework for the use of ICT in language classrooms. This framework will take account of learner readiness, appropriate pedagogical frameworks and the linguistic resources that learners have at their disposal. The use of available technologies in Languages classrooms among a group of final year teacher education students and their supervising teachers is examined. The results of the research are used as a starting point for a discussion about the essential features of a pedagogical framework for languages teachers.

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