Basic Principles :Technological

Instruction must be Meaningful (“Purposeful”) Motivating / Inspiring Accurate Updated Rich in flexibility and very dynamic

Why Media in Language Instruction?

It can be used to move abstract to the a more concrete realm.

It facilitates the organic construction of knowledge.

It democratizes the access to information. (Basic in e-learning)

Technology revives the interest and protagonism in learners.

It has a great variety of level, exercises and topics

Situated Cognition vs

Anchored Cognition Students cannot hook themselves to

isolated chunks of memories. They have to be able to connect social

experiences (schema) , in order to generate new social constructions (social constructs)

Advantages of incorporating ITCs and internet-based projects in the

language instruction?

Because it provides an authentic opportunity to contextualize acquired knowledge