New Technologies and Language Learning

Li Li is Senior Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Exeter, UK. She has been involved in English language teaching and research for nearly 20 years in various cultural contexts, and has published widely on language education. She has guest edited the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity, and serves as editorial board member for Classroom Discourse. She is the author of Social Interaction and Teacher Cognition (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and co-editor, with R Wegerif and J C Kaufman, of The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking (Routledge, 2015).

• PART A: OVERVIEW1. Overview of new technologies in language education2. The role of technology, motivation and SLAPART B: TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE3. Technology and developing interactional competence4. Technology, collaborative writing and online literacy5. Technology for lexico-grammatical acquisition6. Technology and ESPPART C: MATERIALS, FEEDBACK AND TEACHERS7. e-learning material evaluation and design8. Feedback and alternative assessment9. Language teachers and new technologies.

Li’s book is concise and accessible, and will attract a wide range of readership. It promises to be an essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying language teacher training programmes, and more specifically MA TESOL degrees. It is also an excellent resource for academics pursuing a research-led teaching methodology. As such, it has already taken its place in the list of essential reading for my CALL module at Newcastle University.