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Distance Learning: What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
Author(s) -
WarrinerBurke Helen P.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1990.tb00351.x
Subject(s) - foreign language , distance education , mathematics education , pedagogy , foreign language teaching , psychology , sociology
Distance learning is increasingly being used across the country to teach students, primarily in the secondary schools. Often decisions concerning its applications in foreign languages are made by administrators and technology specialists without the involvement or even the awareness of the foreign language profession. The author raises a series of questions concerning the use of distance learning to teach languages and calls upon the profession to become engaged in this issue.