New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. New Media and Foreign Language Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Multimedia in Learning English as a Foreign Language as Preferred by German, Spanish, and Polish Teenagers

      • Magdalena Szyszka

      Pages 3-19

   3. Advanced Learners’ Intercultural Experience Through Computer-Enhanced Technology: A Study of Polish and Romanian Students

      • Aleksandra Wach

      Pages 21-38

   4. Wikis and New Perspectives for Collaborative Writing

      • Małgorzata Marzec-Stawiarska

      Pages 39-55

   5. The Foreign Language Classroom in the New Media Age: Videoconferencing and Negotiated Interaction Among L2 Learners

      • Barbara Loranc-Paszylk

      Pages 57-71

   6. E-mail, Facebook, and Mobile Phones as Essential Tools for Lower Secondary School Students’ Communication

      • Anna Kozioł

      Pages 73-90

   7. Facebook to Facebook Encounters in Japan: How an Online Social Network Promotes Autonomous L2 Production

      • Johnny George

      Pages 91-112

3. Perennial Issues in Foreign Language Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Communicating with Oneself: On the Phenomenon of Private/Inner Speech in Language Acquisition

      • Danuta Gabryś-Barker

      Pages 115-130

   3. The Effectiveness of Written Corrective Feedback in the Acquisition of the English Article System by Polish Learners in View of the Counterbalance Hypothesis

      • Lech Zabor, Agnieszka Rychlewska

      Pages 131-150

   4. Formal Instruction in Collocations in English: Mixed Methods Approach

      • Paweł Szudarski

      Pages 151-167

   5. Some Implications for Developing Learners’ Figurative Language Competence Across Modalities: Metaphor, Metonymy and Blending in the Picture Modality

      • Przemysław Wilk

      Pages 169-187

   6. Design and Style of Cultural and Media Studies Textbooks for College Students

      • Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

      Pages 189-207

   7. Towards Teaching English for Pharmaceutical Purposes: An Attempt at a Description of Key Vocabulary and Phraseology in Clinical Trial Protocols and European Public Assessment Reports

      • Łukasz Grabowski

      Pages 209-228

The book concerns the ways in which the new media shape communication along with educational expectations and practices in foreign language classrooms. Although foreign language learners have cheap and easy access to information and ways of communication, they also wrestle with problems that have always accompanied language learning. The focus of the book is two-fold. On the one hand, the authors demonstrate how using social networks, videoconferencing, mobile phones, wikis, and computer-mediated interaction contributes to the development of language skills, negotiated interaction, autonomy, and intercultural competence. On the other, they discuss “old” issues pertaining to the role of vocabulary, corrective feedback, textbooks and inner speech in the process of language learning and use. Every chapter reports original empirical research on issues related to the new media and old problems in foreign language teaching contexts in various countries, and with respect to various age groups.

• Development of Language Skills
• Foreign/Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Language Teaching Resources
• Learner Autonomy
• New Media

• Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Uniwersytet Opolski, Opole, Poland

  Liliana Piasecka, Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf, Przemysław Wilk

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