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标题：Learning and Teaching Languages Online: A Constructivist Approach
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作者：Tuncer Can
期刊名称：Novitas-ROYAL
印刷版ISSN：1307-4733
出版年度：2009
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：60-74
出版社：Novitas-ROYAL
摘要：The recent advances in technology have necessitated first new approaches and then new methodologies in the area of foreign language learning and thoroughly teaching. The Internet and the virtual learning environments have diversified the opportunities for school teachers, instructional designers as well as learners by varying and broadening the alternatives for learning and teaching of languages. Employing tools and applications, other than classroom and course books, in the learning of foreign languages requires reconsidering the pedagogy, methodology, applications, teacher roles, interaction types, and teaching environment itself. And also multiple selections of channels, through which the teaching materials can be implemented mandate the revision of traditional one way communication between the teachers and the learners. An acknowledgement is brought about by the constructivist approach with its assumptions about learning and knowledge, multiple perspectives and modes of learning and the complexity of learning environments. Constructivist approach is promising at promoting learners’ language and communicative skills as well as at fostering their autonomy, social and interactive skills contributing to their development into more confident, pro-active and responsible individuals by supporting incentives on diverse media in language learning and teaching.
关键词：Constructivism ; Foreign Language Learning ; Distance Education ; E-Learning ; Videoconferencing