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LES TICE’s, des outils pour une construction collaborative des savoirs
The ITC, Tools for a Collaborative Construction of the Literacy

Author(s): Joaquim Guerra
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Echinox
Keywords: ICT and language teaching; ICT and literacy development; language teaching; teaching of writing competence.

Summary/Abstract: The impact of the ICT in the learning and teaching process is something that we cannot avoid. In fact, even the literacy development of the population is changing and adapting to this new realities. We send e-mails, use sms, read online news, blogs, etc., research web encyclopedias, and so on. Our students do it all this, too. As teachers, do we have to use these technologies in class for literacy development? If we use them, or try to use them, how can we do it? What tools, when, and for what purposes? There are many questions that it is difficult to answer them righ now. Nevertheless, research findings in role of the ICT for literacy development are growing and showing that there are some advantages in using them in the language classrooms. In this presentation, I aim to review some of the ICT contributions. I will also contextualize some of their uses, by presenting some practices and results of the use of ICT in the language classroom for collaborative writing.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 259-269
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French
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