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Computers Make Sense According to Brain Research… But What do Students Think? – by By Miles Turnbull and Geoff Lawrence
I am presently stumbling my way through my FSL specialist course and I ran across this article about student attitudes toward the use of computers in the FSL classroom. It was interesting, though nothing was terribly surprising; most students enjoyed working with computers and wished that they could spend more time working with them.
What caught my attention was the fact that a small percentage of the students thought that computers helped them in their spoken French. Again, it’s not surprising, but I had never really thought about it. This is something I want to chew on for a bit. How do I use the computer to encourage oral participation?
I hope you’re not waiting for an answer, because I don’t know… yet. The topic I chose for my final project is the use of computers as a learning tool in the FSL classroom, so I’d better come up with something!

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