Listen to an interview with Gary Motteram, conducted by Nicolas Guichon at the EuroCALL conference 2010. In this podcast, Dr Motteram explains how he became involved in researching technology in language learning and teaching.
This collection provides an overview of current issues, debates, and approaches in Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) presented by internationally prominent researchers, educators, and emerging scholars. Chapters address such issues as distance education, non-native English-speaking educators, technology, assessment, standards, and the changing contexts of contemporary language teaching and teacher education.
English Language Teaching resides in among many methods and approaches. The span is spread from Grammar Translation method to the recent method Communicative Language Teaching method, participatory approaches and multiple intelligence. The different techniques of ELT have seen several changes, upheavals and transitions. The trend of Language teaching and learning started from writing on dry leaves, then with chalk and duster with black board and then with most modern technological tools like computer, mobiles and satellite and with internet. But, in spite of all this, the ability of ‘Communication’ of the people (learners) has not been that improved which was much expected the way technology developed. The present article focusses chiefly as to how the learners can develop their communicative ability.