Foreign Language Teaching and Information and Communacation Technology.

This volume intends to offer guidelines for the utilisation of information and communication technology (ICT) in language study and teaching. First chapters demonstrate how this general revolution has led to the emergence of a new educational paradigm in the context of digitally enriched learning environments including its design and implementation for literary or cultural studies. The applications of ICT in language learning and the use of computers in SLA research are discussed in the next two chapters. The final chapter introduces and discusses the scope and concepts of computational linguistics and corpus linguistics and their applications in lexicography, translation and foreign language teaching. It is also devoted to looking at ways in which computers can contribute to our understanding of what language is and what implications this knowledge can bring to linguistic practice and use.

The Authors: Prof. Dr. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is a graduate of the University of Lodz, where she holds the position of professor ordinarius and Chair of English Language. Her research interests are primarily in semantics and pragmatics of natural language, corpus linguistics and their applications in translation studies and lexicography.
Prof. Dr. John Osborne is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and Grenoble, and is presently Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Savoie, Chambéry, where he teaches English language and linguistics. His main research interests are in the role of explicit grammatical knowledge in second language learning, and in the practical applications of ICT for enhancing language awareness.
Drs Frits Schulte is a lecturer in British and American literary studies and in the methodology of teaching literature of the English Department of Fontys Universities (Tilburg, the Netherlands). His special interest is in developing ICT materials for the teaching of literature and culture in secondary schools. He is also the manager of the Fontys Centre for Educational Technology and active as an ICT-consultant for schools and teacher training colleges.