Language, Literacy, and Technology

Language, Literacy, and Technology explores how technology matters to language and the ways we use it.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Designing Meaning: 1. Communication by design; 2. Material resources: the medium matters; 3. Social ecologies; 4. The individual and design; Part II. Interactions of the Material, the Social, and the Individual: 5. Ancient writing in Mesopotamia; 6. Paper and print; 7. Writing redesigned: electronically mediated discourse; 8. Multimodal discourse; Part III. Educational Implications: 9. Principles and goals in language and literacy education; 10. Toward a relational pedagogy.

About the author

Richard Kern is Professor of French and Director of the Berkeley Language Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Literacy and Language Teaching (2000), co-editor of Décrire la conversation en ligne (2011), and co-editor of Network-based Language Teaching (Cambridge, 2000). He is Associate Editor of the journal Language Learning and Technology and has published many articles and chapters related to language, literacy, and technology.

Summary

This book explores how technology matters to language and the ways in which we use it. Richard Kern provides an historical framework through which to understand new literacy practices and a set of principles by which to organize language and literacy education in the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kern, Richard (University of California Kern, Kern Richard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781107642850
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64285-0
• No. of pages: 303
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods