Digital Studies (Nov 1999)

Contribution of the Cybernautical Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Second Languages (L2) [1999, rptd. 2008]

  • Charles Elkabas,
  • David Trott,
  • T Russon Wooldridge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.231
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1

Abstract

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Language teaching is searching its way. With the advent of the electronic language learning environment (ELLE), the stakes are today far greater than in the past and also without precedent. ELLE presents the challenge of a comprehensive thought-out and concerted application of the new modes of solitary discovery the cybernaut is first of all an explorer and cooperative interaction. By redefining the very nature of the three poles of the learning situation the teacher, the learner and knowledge (in the present case the mastery of a language) the cybernautical approach fundamentally changes our way of conceiving teaching and learning.

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