Autonomy and Foreign Language Learning in a Virtual Learning Environment.

Digitalised learning with its promise of autonomy, enhanced learner choice, independence and freedom, is an intuitive and appealing construct but closer examination reveals it to be a rather simplistic proposition, raising the following questions.-What do we mean by autonomy? -What are we implying a...

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Main Author: Hamilton, Miranda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Series:Advances in digital language learning and teaching.
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Summary:Digitalised learning with its promise of autonomy, enhanced learner choice, independence and freedom, is an intuitive and appealing construct but closer examination reveals it to be a rather simplistic proposition, raising the following questions.-What do we mean by autonomy? -What are we implying about the role of the teacher, the classroom, and interaction between learners? -What do we understand about the impact of technology on the ecology of the learning environment? This book describes the use of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) by a group of advanced English language learners in Me.
Item Description:The autonomous view: Autonomy as a response to the technologically reconfigured dimensions of the learning environment in the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages).
ISBN:9781441153685
1441153683
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.