On the Historic Interaction between Learning and Media in Foreign Language Education

DOI

10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.47How to use a DOI?

Keywords

learning; media; foreign language education; instructional technology

Abstract

The great “learning and media debate” has long been regarded as a milestone in the intellectual history of instructional technology, and it has also triggered new perspectives and breakthroughs on the study of this area. In this article, the author intends to draw a quick sketch of the progress of technological instructional media and the impacts they has exerted on foreign language education. In view of different language learning principles, this article also looks back upon the demands of learner needs on technological media, namely, from audio-lingual approach to current learner-oriented communicative approach. Eventually, the author describes the historic interaction between “learning” and “media” in the area of foreign language education, particularly from the traditional single media foreign language classroom to current multimodal classroom with multi-media representation in multiple environments. Finally, through a comprehensive analysis of “learning” and “media” in this specific micro context, the author intends to conclude that in the new digital era, the new foreign language education would feature itself with hyper-media representations, which would inevitably bring challenges to foreign language teachers-they should not be the traditional “sage on the stage”, but to equip themselves with new perceptions and technologies, and to learn how to keep a dynamic, benign relationship between the student learning needs and the use of proper media.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Qinglan Yu
AU  - Shuntao Zhang
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TI  - On the Historic Interaction between Learning and Media in Foreign Language Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 193
EP  - 197
SN  - 2352-5398
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