Ashley's Adventures in Applied Linguistics

 This class was divided into 3  Units: 1. Listening, speaking, writing (theories, concepts, & tech applications) ·       The roles of tech in the process of learning ·       How digital technologies have changed the process and the definition of learning and communication ·       Skills needed to listen and speak effectively in a second language ·       How digital tech can facilitate this ·       Differences in real-life and tech-mediated listening and speaking tasks ·       Differences and similarities in traditional reading and Web 2.0 reading approaches ·       Writing and social learning Theorists: Elola & Oskoz (2011), Chun (2011), Rance-Roney (2010), Arnold & Ducate (2011), Prensky (2001), Robin (2011) 2. New literacies (and tech skills) ·       Similarities and differences in traditional and multimodal literacies ·       Concept and importance of multimodal literacies for language learning ·       Underlying SLA principles connected t

Jumping into this elective with no background in applied linguistics (and an outdated background in education) has been difficult in the sense that I don't know much about the key theorists. I'm using this space to jot down the names of various theorists we've covered in this class, the years they published said theories, and a bit about their theories and ideas. Cameron (2001) – There may be a tendency to patronize young learners by only teaching them numbers and colors, but young learners are capable of following their genuine interests in a foreign language and this also helps them see the value in learning a FL. A holistic way to teach is through stories. Prensky (2001) – using digital technology changes brain structure J Carr (2011) – using digital technology changes brain structure L Kress (2010) and Jewitt (2009) – 21 st century literacy is multimodal and includes images, video, text, and sounds Gee (2011) – disagrees and uses literacy to mean text-ba