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This chapter brings a change of perspective. Up to this point, reference has been made to the implications of technological progress for L2 users and language learners in general. In this chapter and the next, teaching and learning take centre stage. Unlike language acquisition, which occurs spontaneously without being deliberately fostered, and in common with the learning of other subjects, language learning presupposes an intervention of the kind ordinarily subsumed under the terms ‘education’ or ‘instruction’. It is the influence of ICT on this intervention that forms the subject of these two chapters. The present chapter is concerned with the broader picture and examines relevant effects of the impact of ICT on education. In other words, it asks the question: to what extent have approaches to education changed in response to technological advances and, subsidiarily, how has this affected language learning and language teaching? The next chapter has a narrower focus and discusses subject-specific effects that derive from the nature and characteristics of language learning.
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Kenning, MM. (2007). ICT and Education. In: ICT and Language Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230591325_4
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