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ERIC Number: EJ1103554
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jun
Pages: 14
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ISSN: EISSN-1094-3501
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Technology and the Four Skills
Blake, Robert
Language Learning & Technology, v20 n2 p129-142 Jun 2016
Most L2 instructors implement their curriculum with an eye to improving the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Absent in this vision of language are notions of pragmatic, sociolinguistic, and multicultural competencies. Although current linguistic theories posit a more complex, interactive, and integrated model of language, this review article points out where computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can contribute to L2 language growth in terms of these four skills, especially if carefully situated within a task-based language teaching (TBLT) framework. New technologies coupled with a TBLT goal-oriented approach ultimately push learners to combine speaking, listening, reading, and writing in ways that resemble more closely how they normally engage with the digital facets of their own lives.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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