Language Learning with Technology

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Graham Stanley

Language Learning with Technology is for teachers interested in integrating technology into their classroom practice. This book puts pedagogy first, with the content organised around areas of language learning rather than technology types. Chapters cover language skills and the language areas of grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary, as well as project work and assessment and evaluation. There are 150 activities for students ranging from beginner to advanced levels and these include a wide range of up-to-date technologies, such as mobile technologies and social networking.

Genres: Technology, Education

275 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

I am an educator currently working as for the British Council in Mexico City.

I hold a Master's in ELT & Educational Technology (Manchester, UK) and have written two books for teachers:

- 'Digital Play: computer games and language aims' (2011) with Kyle Mawer, and which won the British Council's ELT Innovation award (ELTon) for Teacher Resources.
- 'Learning Languages With Technology' (CUP, 2013), winner of the English Speaking Union's HRH Duke of Edinburgh award for best English language teaching book.

I am also writing fiction: mystery, thrillers, sci-fi, weird, and have just published a novella, the Spaceman (Many Worlds Apart, Book 1)

Reviews

[Derya Kulavuz-Onal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have used this book with my undergraduate and graduate students in a class that I designed called Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching. I should say that it is hard to find an up-to-date technology ideas for language teaching, and the book met my expectation in that sense. My students also found it very useful with lots of ideas for them to explore. My goal was for them to own a resource book as well, so this book met this goal too. it was only a little difficult on my part to use this book as a textbook for this class, because it is so much like a resource book that students may want to explore and experiment on their own. How I used in my class to maximize the benefit was to have them overview the relevant chapter with ideas and activities, and select two activities to talk about their evaluation, or how they would modify this activity according to their needs and goals with the own students. So, if you are looking for a text to use in a class like this, I wouldn't recommend it. But it is a perfect resource book that I am sure my students (i.e. preservicet eachers of English) want to hold on to.

[Sultan muhammad Khan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book,if any body want to know or learn , this useful to them.

[Graham Stanley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reviews of Language Learning With Technology:

"I cannot recommend this book highly enough! I have just read it cover to cover while travelling at the weekend, and I just want to start using all the ideas straight away! The examples are mainly relating to the teaching of English, but as a teacher of French and German, I can see that the ideas can be transferred to any other language." Helen Myers, Amazon and on her blog

"It was great news to hear that “Language Learning with Technology” (Stanley 2013) was nominated and consequently won the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award. A big congratulations to Graham for his continued effort with technology and language learning, I have always enjoyed reading his contributions to this field...This book is particularly invaluable for teachers who would like to gain more confidence when incorporating technology in the classroom and I would highly recommend language teachers and schools to consider getting it." Martin Sketchley - ELT Experiences