Using Web-based technology in ELF contexts

Abstract

This chapter aims to provide a critical analysis of current classroom web-based technology through an ELF-aware paradigm. It takes into consideration how an ELF-aware approach may be implemented, adapted or constructed through different web-based tools, namely text-based, audio, video, multimodal production, digital storytelling, website creation, knowledge organisation and sharing, social networking and web-conferencing tools to enhance classroom learning in the use of blended, face-to-face, or online learning. The chapter also includes the case study of a project whose outcome is an online journal written and edited by undergraduate university students who are users of ELF. In sum, this chapter hopes to assist ELT teachers with pedagogical alternatives which rely on the use of innovative technological tools aiming at developing learners’ communicative skills for language use in ELF contexts inside and outside the classroom.