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 * KPE 348 Computer Based Language Learning (or Computer-Assisted Language Learning) **

This course is designed to introduce students to the underlying principles of Computer Assisted Language Learning and emergent technologies such as Web 2.0 tools and how to implement them in languag classrooms. This course will also show students how to search, select and evaluate a body of Internet-based materials and to provide a hands-on experiences in developing computer-based or Internet-based materials and learning activity. Therefore, this course is both theoretical and practical in nature.

The topics of this course include: the use of asynchronous and synchronous communication tools, the use of word processors in the classrooms, using and evaluating internet/web-based or online materials and activities, search engines and subject directory, how to use emails, Web 2.0 tools (such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking and social networking tools), online reference tools (including concordance program and online dictionaries and thesaurus), and authoring tools (including how to use Hot Potatoes and online authoring tools).

This course is elective and offered in Semester VI. There are four prerequisite courses for this KPE 348, those are Instructional Design, Approaches, Methods and Techniques, Curriculum and Material Development, and Language Learning Assessment.