Technologies, Resources, and Practices for Language Teachers: a Toolkit is an overview of 20 technologies commonly used in computer-assisted language learning. For each of these technologies, the toolkit contains examples of tools and their application for teaching four basic language skills of speaking, writing, listening and reading. The toolkit also contains examples of open educational resources where applicable and open educational practices. Finally, most of the technologies are supplied with teacher education materials.
The following technologies are included:
- Educational games and gamification
- Online video & audio
- Social networking
- Instant messaging
- Electronic dictionary, glossaries or annotation
- Course management systems
- Collaborative writing
- Automated feedback
- Intelligent tutoring systems / chat bots
- In-class tools/clickers
- Virtual Reality
- Voice recording and Speech recognition
- Websites and digital resources
- Digital libraries
- e-Books
- White boards
- Online courses / MOOCs
- Wearable Technology
- Augmented Reality
- Robots
The overview of technologies commonly used in computer-assisted language teaching presented in this toolkit were undertaken in the frame of the project: Digital Competences for Language Teachers (DC4LT https://www.dc4lt.eu/). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus Plus programme, grant agreement 2018-1-NO01-KA203-038837.