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3 - Shifting Paradigms in Language Learning and Teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Glenn Stockwell
Affiliation:
Waseda University, Japan
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The main focus of this chapter is to discuss how dramatically teaching and learning are changing, largely as a result of developments in technology. These changes have brought about changes in the roles of the teachers, of learners and even of the technologies themselves. Teachers not only have to manage their teaching environments, but they also need to manage their technological skills and the emotional load that goes along with the pressures of maintaining digital literacy. Learners are faced with having greater expectations to use technology, while it is expected that they are already skilled in using technologies for learning purposes. It explores the possible future directions of education, where teachers and learners need to consider not only what information needs to be learned, but also what information is acceptable to be referenced, along with the need to develop skills in evaluating information from the enormous amount of available resources. It also explores the view of teaching and learning in formal and informal contexts and looks at how mobile technologies have impacted both of these learning situations.

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Mobile Assisted Language Learning
Concepts, Contexts and Challenges
, pp. 45 - 65
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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