Today's electronic information and communications technologies not only support the teaching and learning of other languages and cultures, they also provide tools, strategies and practices which increase student interest and performance. Coupled with the research and instruction to which foreign language professionals have dedicated their lives, twenty-first century technologies empower faculty to motivate more students to pursue longer sequences of study. Technologically reinforced in their ability to communicate in other languages and to get inside the mentality of other cultures, more and more students will choose to maintain on-going multilingual, multicultural connections.
 

FL TECH STRATEGIES THAT WORK :

• Develop/ organize/ take advantage of  these ELECTRONIC capabilities:

• Increase development of Bi-Literacy skills and cultural understanding:

• Exhibit these types of roles and/or role changes :

• Expand evaluation strategies to include ELECTRONIC :

Are meaningful , interactive and user-centered !

 

Are linguistically and culturally «REAL» !

 

Increase the ability to communicate with and to understand other peoples and cultures.

 

Do not waste faculty and student time and energy.

 

Motivate deeper and longer sequences of foreign language study.

 

Open the world to the students and open the students to the world.

 

Facilitate on-going multilingual, multicultural connections.

 

Stimulate life-long learning and enrichment.

 

Empower more students  to realize the true liberating, mind stretching intent of the foreign language requirement.

 

Each language and culture in which one becomes functionally literate opens another window to reality and another skylight for the soul.