Contribution to Book
Technology and Second Language Acquistion
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2007
DOI
10.1017/S0267190508070050
Abstract
Computer technology provides learners with new and varied options for language learning through interactive tasks delivered through CD-ROMs, Web pages, and communications software on the Internet. Researchers need to reconsider any approach to second language acquisition (SLA) concerned with explaining how language development is prompted by exposure to the target language in view of the dramatic differences in language experience learners engage in due to computer technology. Virtually all theories are concerned with the role of linguistic input or the environment (VanPatten & Williams, 2007), and therefore technology needs to be considered.
Copyright Owner
Cambridge University Press
Copyright Date
2007
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Carol Chapelle. "Technology and Second Language Acquistion" Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Vol. 27 (2007) p. 98 - 114 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/carol_chapelle/5/
This article is from Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 27 (2007): 98, doi:10.1017/S0267190508070050. Posted with permission.