Teaching Language and Teaching Literature in Virtual Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Methodology Design for Second Language Teaching in Virtual Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Using Technology for Second Language Vocabulary Learning

      • María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz, Antonio Sarasa-Cabezuelo

      Pages 3-20

   3. Practicing the Oral Production Skills in E-Learning Contexts: Is It Still an Achilles’ Heel?

      • Alessandra Giglio

      Pages 21-37

   4. Language Learning in the Virtual Wild

      • Iwona B. Lech, Lindsay N. Harris

      Pages 39-54

   5. Best Practices in the Use of Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies for SLA: Design, Implementation, and Feedback

      • Olga Scrivner, Julie Madewell, Cameron Buckley, Nitocris Perez

      Pages 55-72

   6. Integrating “Talk Abroad” into an Intermediate Foreign Language Course: Building Learner Autonomy and Engagement Through Video Conversations with Native Speakers

      • Catherine M. Sama, Yu Wu

      Pages 73-94

3. Tools for Second/Foreign Language Teaching in Virtual Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Teaching English by Skype: Theoretical and Practical Considerations from the Perspective of Serbian English Teachers

      • Marija Milojković

      Pages 97-119

   3. FrameNet as a Resource to Teach Spanish as a Foreign Language

      • José Antonio Jódar-Sánchez

      Pages 121-149

   4. Developing Soft Skills in Higher Education Foreign Language Programs. Initial Insights into Telecollaboration

      • María Victoria Guadamillas Gómez

      Pages 151-162

   5. A Comparative Analysis of Two Online Videoconferencing Initiatives for Conversational Practice with Native Speakers

      • Megan Mercedes Echevarría

      Pages 163-179

4. Specific Second Language Teaching in Virtual Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Cognitive Approach to Adaptive Testing Implementation in Virtual Maritime English Language Learning Environment Based on a Spaced Repetition System

      • María-Araceli Losey-León, Antonio Balderas

      Pages 183-202

   3. Teacher Training for CLIL in Higher Education Through Blended Learning

      • María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro, Margarida Morgado, Marcelo Gaspar, Mónica Régio

      Pages 203-225

   4. Project-Based Learning in a Virtual Classroom: The Case of English for Tourism Communication

      • Elena Alcalde Peñalver

      Pages 227-237

5. Literature Teaching in Virtual Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

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   2. Digital Storytelling in Teacher Training: Development of Basic Competences, Creativity and Multimodal Literacy Through Book Trailers

      • Noelia Ibarra-Rius, Josep Ballester-Roca

      Pages 241-254

   3. Teaching Poetry Through Songs in a Virtual Environment: From Students’ Reluctance to Their Acquiescence

      • Clara Marías, Elena Alcalde Peñalver, Antonio Portela Lopa

      Pages 255-275

   4. Reflexion, Analysis and Language Practice: From Individual Critical Thinking to Collaborative Learning Using Blogs in a Literature Class

      • Marta Giralt, Liam Murray

      Pages 277-293

This book sheds new light on language and literature teaching, and offers examples of teaching language in virtual environments. Providing an overview of virtual environments for teaching, it also includes chapters devoted to methodology design for second language teaching in these environments. Further it describes tools for second/ foreign language teaching and proposals for specific second language teaching in virtual environments. Lastly, it presents experiments on literature teaching in virtual environments and discusses the future of technology in education. With interdisciplinary appeal, the book is a particularly valuable resource for scholars with an interest in technology, language teaching and literature teaching.

• Technology and Language Teaching
• Digital Environments
• Language Teaching
• Literature Teaching
• Second Language Teaching
• Virtual Environments in Teaching

• Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

  María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

​María Luisa Carrió-Pastor is a professor of English Linguistics. She currently works at Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València. Her area of interest is the use of technology in second language teaching. 

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