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Language Learning Online: Theory and Practice in the ESL and L2 Computer Classroom

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This colletion of essays proves that it does not take the most sophisticated and thus most expensive means (i.e. software tools) to dramatically enhance language learning classrooms. A simple "chat"-like online-programm is enough to overcome the obstacles of decades maybe centuries of foreign language learning, provided is is appropirately used by language teachers. Focussing on "extended discourse" among students , a didactical aim that is seldomly achieved in regular high-school classes, be it in the U.S or in my home country, Germany, this book gives the theoretical foundation as well as concrete advise how to achieve this. A bonus for language teachers: Suggestions for marking scales for this brand new, yet unexplored way of language teaching.