Leveraging low-cost mobile technologies in Bangladesh: A case study of innovative practices for teacher professional development and communicative English language teaching

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 177 CCIS, Issue , 2011, Pages 152-166

  Walsh, Christopher S ^a   Shrestha, Prithvi ^a   Hedges, Claire ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT); English in Action (EIA); mobile phones; teacher professional development

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT); DEVELOPING ECONOMIES; ENGLISH IN ACTION (EIA); ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING; ENGLISH TEACHING; HANDHELDS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; TEACHING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960276317     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22383-9_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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