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Classroom‐Management‐Classroom Survival: One Teacher's Story of Constructing Practice in a Computer‐Equipped Foreign Language Classroom
Author(s) -
Burnett Joanne
Publication year - 1999
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.1944-9720.1999.tb01341.x
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , compromise , foreign language , computer science , mathematics education , foreign language teaching , natural (archaeology) , bent molecular geometry , pedagogy , linguistics , psychology , sociology , philosophy , history , engineering , medicine , social science , archaeology , structural engineering , radiology
“I volunteered to speak today, because in the midst of all this technological wizardry, I thought we should have a voice from the other side. Not all of us love computers. Not all of us have a natural bent for computers—on the contrary. I get bent out of shape. How can you visualize how they work when they have no moving parts? Why won't they tell you what's wrong when there's a problem? And my pet peeve is that there's no compromise with a computer. It always gets its way. And what I really question is the starry‐eyed assumption that technology automatically, by nature of being technology, improves the language course presentation and facilitates language learning.”