Taalas Peppi | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

The pressure to re-think and re-design language lerning environments are growing rapidly. There are both pedagogic and strategic demands to do so as the world is getting more and more multimodal and the learning contexts become increasingly varied. This study explores the way in which technology is currently integrated in language teaching in the vocational and higher education sectors. There are two parts in the study. Part I looks at change in a seven-year follow-up study where English teachers' teaching practices and technology use are surveyed. Along with an extensive theoretical framework of educational change and learning technologies, the need for change is examined in the light of the immense technological advancements, the changing notion of literacy and learning. Part II is a three-year empirical study of the "rules and realities" of change in the real life context of language teaching. The aim of the part is to better understand the mechanisms of sustainable change as a systemic process.