This book is an attempt to pay deliberate attention to some silences on issues of social, cultural, and political importance that have remained unattended in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Using an analytical framework developed by the French philosopher and cultural theorist Michel de Certeau, the author demonstrates how silences can actively shape the boundaries of a scholarly field. He argues that a “geography of the forgotten” in the field of CALL undermines the transformative and social justice potential of language teaching by using digital technologies. The book will appeal to graduate students, teacher educators, and academic researchers who are looking for fresh perspectives and innovative ideas for integrating technologies into the curriculum and pedagogy of language education.
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1 Introduction: Technology, Language Education, and a Geography of Silence |
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2 Technological Determinism Versus Teacher Agency in CALL |
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3 Blue Sky Utopias Versus Capitalist Motives: A Critical Theory of Technology for CALL |
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4 Interrogating the Promise of Temporal Flexibility in CALL |
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5 Emotions in Technology-Mediated Pedagogical Spaces |
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6 Social Media Echo Chambers and Unfulfilled Promises of Democratic Education |
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7 Conclusion: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Technology for Language Teacher Education |
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Anwar Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University in Toronto, Canada.
