Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching - The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology

This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching; fills a gap in the research by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating freely shared FL materials. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

About the author

Carl S. Blyth is Associate Professor of French Linguistics, and Director of the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research interests include discourse analysis, intercultural pragmatics and language learning technology.
Joshua J. Thoms is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish at Utah State University, USA. His research interests include classroom discourse in L2 literature environments, technology-enhanced language learning, and open educational resources and practices.

Summary

This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching; fills a gap in the research by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating freely shared FL materials. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carl S. Blyth (Editor), Joshua J. Thoms (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781800410992
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-099-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 593 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology