As our post-secondary landscape evolves to address the needs of the next generation of learners and future educators, it is important to explore the potential conflict between the teaching methods employed by teacher educators and what we ask our pre-service teachers to enact. Amid the challenges facing many teacher preparation programs (including…

There is an increasing pressure from school leaders in many countries for teaching to be based solely on ICT tools. The present study is interested in what this does to pupils' attitudes towards ICT in language classrooms. Is a digital monopoly a good way for pupils to learn languages? Is it what they want? To understand for which tasks students…

This study describes how Twitter (a social networking tool) was implemented as part of a foreign language Reading Comprehension course; it reports on the students' perspectives and opinions about their experiences. The participants were 52 level 2 learners studying in the English department at Huraymila College of Science and Human Studies. The…