Modern Educational Technology and Modern Foreign Language Teaching

Author: He Gaoda
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: The rapid development of information technology is transforming all aspects of traditional education. Modern educational information technology serves as a pivotal point or breakthrough in teaching reform. Foreign language teaching in the 21st century will face challenges from modern educational information technology; it will also encounter challenges of modernization, informatization, intelligence, and diversification. How to understand foreign language teaching in the 21st century is a necessary issue to be addressed in the new century. Modern Educational Technology and Modern Foreign Language Teaching attempts to explore the theoretical foundations and applications of modern educational technology in modern foreign language teaching and learning, based on the connection between modern educational technology and modern foreign language teaching. It introduces new concepts, methods, and perspectives, and makes meaningful and innovative explorations into the modernization, informatization, intelligence, and diversification of foreign language teaching in China. The book is divided into ten chapters, primarily discussing the development of modern educational technology at home and abroad; the principles, characteristics, applications, and development of multimedia systems; it highlights the theoretical foundations, software design, classroom teaching design, teaching models and methods, and teaching skills of educational technology-assisted foreign language teaching. It also explores the role of educational technology in foreign language teachers' information literacy, foreign language learning, the use of the Internet in foreign language teaching, the evaluation of websites and software, online teaching, and development trends. Case studies and URLs are provided in relevant chapters. While ensuring academic rigor, the book emphasizes the theoretical nature, advancedness, timeliness, systematicity, specificity, practicality, readability, and operability of the research, aiming to reflect the ideological trends and new developments in this field both domestically and internationally. This is a systematic academic monograph on the theory and application of modern educational technology in assisting foreign language teaching in China, with a solid theoretical foundation and theoretical innovation, and strong practical value. It can serve as a textbook for graduate students in English majors, linguistics, applied linguistics, education, psychology, subject pedagogy, and computer-assisted education. It is also a valuable resource for English teachers and researchers to enhance their qualities and establish themselves in the new century. Additionally, it provides useful reference material for relevant administrative departments, foreign language teaching and research practitioners, educational technology researchers, and developers of English teaching software and online language teaching platforms.