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The Tek.Xam as a Framework for Preservice Foreign Language Teacher Technology Training
Author(s) -
Spodark Edwina
Publication year - 2002
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.1944-9720.2002.tb01882.x
Subject(s) - mathematics education , foreign language , class (philosophy) , teacher preparation , literacy , teacher education , pedagogy , training (meteorology) , teaching method , technological literacy , computer science , psychology , physics , artificial intelligence , meteorology
At the undergraduate level, preservice training for future foreign language teachers usually consists of a one‐semester course taken before student teaching. Given the enormous quantity of material a student must cover in the preservice course, we must ask: What educational technology components should be incorporated into that limited time? What criteria should we use to organize the lessons on technology so that students can apply them immediately in real‐world classroom situations? This article offers the Tek.Xam, a national standard in technical literacy developed by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, as the framework for six technology modules that are integrated into a representative undergraduate foreign language methodology class.