Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Future Directions in Language Teaching and Learning (01 Aug 2002) The key lesson from the day was that emergent technologies should NOT be used to provide activities which can already be done much more quickly and easily using other technologies such as video or 'even' interactions between students and between teachers and students. Rather, there was a sense that technology was often being used to make language teaching and learning unnecessarily complicated, taking the focus away from the language and onto the technology. Future directions in teaching and learning with technology should encourage a focus on language, should facilitate communication and reflection, and should offer opportunities for learning that are not already provided for within the languages classroom. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/learn04.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Gail Hughes Wins Excellence in Usability Award     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy