To Innovate or not to Innovate in the Didactic Second Language Scenario (and How) – that Is the Question?
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2016-04-25Tipo de documento
articleÁrea/s de conocimiento
Ciencias de la EducaciónMateria/s Unesco
58 PedagogíaResumen
The development and the evolution of digital information technologies have orchestrated
the most significant advance in the history of second language didactics, in particular,
in its online and/or distance modalities. This new era of Distance Foreign Language
Learning, overrun by digital learning, social and gaming tools, has caused an authentic
education revolution, qualified by significant researchers as disruptive. The rapid changes
in the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to education require
carrying out urgently studies that analyse rigorously the potential benefits of this new
digital media adoption, sometimes thoughtless and even unjustified, in the area of second
language didactics...