Didactiques
Volume 1, Numéro 1, Pages 115-121
2012-06-30

Incorporating Technology In Foreign Language Instruction: A Supporting Pedagogy

Authors : Djebbary Zakia .

Abstract

A new global landscape is emerging as our world now witnesses a period which may be called “a digital age” where countries are trying to catch and utilize amazing technological developments into every area of their technical and social life. it is often assumed that one of the main challenges of current pedagogy seems to be the incursion of technology into classroom tasks. language researchers strongly argue that it appears to be inevitable that, the more a teacher makes use of instructional technology in the classroom, the less teacher-centered and the more student-centered a classroom will become. on the basics of such an assumption, the present paper demonstrates the ways in which technology-enhanced classrooms may promote discovery learning, learner autonomy, and learner-centeredness and to consider the manner in which the inherent characteristics of a particular technology manage the learner’s attention and create motivation in the classroom.

Keywords

Technology,enhanced classrooms, pedagogy, foreign language instruction.