Between New Technologies and New Paradigms in Academic Education. A Non-Reductionist Approach
Between New Technologies and New Paradigms in Academic Education. A Non-Reductionist Approach
Author(s): Anna TurulaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: reductionist/non-reductionist approach; affordancing; ICT
Summary/Abstract: The article presents an insight into an exploratory study carried out between February and May 2014. The study looked into the process of teacher training enhanced by new technology: an MA CALL seminar facilitated in the blended format as a series of online and offline tutorials. The participants of the class were 9 first-year students of the TEFL MA programme at the Pedagogical University in Cracow, Poland. The study and its results were described in detail in previous publications (Turula, 2015, Turula, in press). The present article investigates an aspect of the process researched: negotiating between the digital realm, with its different tools and their affordances and a social context of the digital—or blended, as is the case here—education.
Journal: Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
- Issue Year: 2/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 47-60
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English