Full Description
This book explores the implementation of an online representational tool, GroupScribbles, in Chinese-as-a-second-language classrooms from primary school to secondary school. It demonstrates the effectiveness of combining online representational tools with face-to-face classroom learning, and provides a workable approach to analysing interactions interweaving social and cognitive dimensions, which take place in the networked classroom. A series of suggestions regarding networked second language learning will help educators effectively implement information and communication technology tools in the classroom.
Contents
1 Introduction.- Section I: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Computer-Supported Collaborative L2 Learning.- 2 Theoretical Foundations of Collaborative Language Learning.- 3 Computer-Supported Collaborative L2 Learning.- 4 Funnel Model: A Pedagogical Model for Enhancing Classroom-Based Collaborative Learning.- 5 Analytic Framework for Multimedia and Multimodal Collaborative Learning .- Section II: A Case Study of Networked Chinese Second Language Classroom.- 6 An Ideal Chinese Second Language Lesson.- 7 Mutual Benefits of Face-to-Face and Online Interactions.- 8 Teacher Orchestration in the Networked Classroom.- Section III: Conclusion.- 9 Appropriating Representational Tools for Productive Collaboration.
