Déjà vu? A decade of research on language laboratories, television and video in language learning

2009/12/10 by Robert Vanderplank · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning #Multimedia Communication and Technology #Subtitles and Audiovisual Media

paper · doi:10.1017/s0261444809990267

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Abstract

The developments in the last ten years in the form of DVD, streaming video, video on demand, interactive television and digital language laboratories call for an assessment of the research into language teaching and learning making use of these technologies and the learning paradigms underpinning them. This paper surveys research on language teaching and learning using these and older technologies since 1999, and maps out some pointers for future research. The evidence suggests that research on video and language learning using DVD and other recent technologies is already well established, bringing out a number of issues for further study. In contrast, research-led implementation of the enhanced functionality of digital language laboratories is hardly in its infancy and much language laboratory use is marginal at best.

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