Open AccessBreaking down borders to multiliteracy
Author(s) -
Catherine Caws
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the iall journal of language learning technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1050-0049
DOI - 10.17161/iallt.v38i2.8463
Subject(s) - surrender , power point , simple (philosophy) , computer science , point (geometry) , curriculum , cognition , cognitive science , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , epistemology , law , political science , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience
In his book entitle Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture toTechnology, Postman {1992) raised serious concerns regarding theinvading power of computer technology and rightly argued that weshould seriously consider "what other humans skills and traditionsare being lost by immersion in a computer culture, (122). Here Iwould like to take an opposing point of view and consider the beneficialpower that computers may have in the particular case oflearning to write in a second language. My assumption is based onmy experience as an educator and as a parent, and my simple desireto facilitate learning and cognition without abolishing traditionaleducational methods, such as pen and paper in the case of writing.In this article I will review recent research in CALL technologies forL2 writing and discuss the opportunity of combining them withconcepts of multiliteracy as well as curriculum design.