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Teacher’s Role in a Smart Learning Environment—A Review Study

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The present boom of emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) and their effect on all fields of human activities undoubtedly bring significant changes also into the educational system which puts an emphasis on an independent creative potential of a student, integration of different teaching plans, or diversity of teaching methods and strategies. Thus, the traditional role of the teacher is changing. Nevertheless, the teacher still plays a decisive role in setting the learning aims and objectives, exploiting different teaching approaches and strategies, and determining whether and how to apply technologies in his/her in a new, the so-called smart learning environment The purpose of this article is to explore the role of the teacher of English as a second language in the smart learning environment and discuss benefits and limitations of smart learning environment for the EFL teacher.

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This work is supported by SPEV project titled Impact of Mobile Technologies and Social Networks on the Development and Maintenance of Cognitive Processes run at the Faculty of Informatics and Management in Hradec Kralove.

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    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Klimova, B. (2016). Teacher’s Role in a Smart Learning Environment—A Review Study. In: Uskov, V., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Education and e-Learning 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39690-3_5

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