Review of Brave new digital classroom: technology and foreign language learning

[t]he technology is theoretically and methodologically neutral. But how technology is used—its particular culture of practice—is not neutral; it responds to what the practitioners understand or believe to be true about SLA

Review by Ching-Ni Hsieh, Michigan State University

As new technological tools continue to emerge and impact foreign language (FL) learning, language teachers and researchers are facing the question of how to best utilize the vast array of technological tools in the language classroom while keeping abreast of the rapid changes in the computer-assisted language learning (CALL) world (Chapelle, 2003; Chapelle & Douglas, 2006). Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning grounds its advocacy of technology-enhanced FL curricula in second language acquisition (SLA) research and theoretical frameworks and addresses the pivotal issue of how technology can be effectively implemented in the service of language teaching and learning in a reader-friendly and informative fashion.

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