The Internet and Elt: Costs, Gains and Compromises

• Authors: Rebeca Ungureanu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyzes some present and future trends in education, zooming in on the English class, through the impact of the most influential product of the human mind, the Internet. Extensive research is currently being done on the roles of the Internet upon our society, with special emphasis on education. I follow some of these research projects’ threads and offer up-to-date insights into the debates and controversies the Internet has awoken. As a result of scanning some of the future educational trends, the conclusion I draw is that of an obvious compromise the English teacher has to sign: teaching both classical and modern competencies but learning to use the digital language of today’s generation, while not overlooking the students’ emotional needs.

Keywords

EN

ICT; digital literacy; Digital Natives; adaptation; blended learning

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Linguaculture
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 82-96

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2015-04-18

Contributors

author

Rebeca Ungureanu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lincu-2015-0012