Teaching reading and writing through technologies:  Considerations, Implications and Lessons to be ‘learned’

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In the last decade, ‘technology enhanced learning’ has become a widely accepted interface to mediate teaching and learning both in mainstream teaching and in the provisioning of supplementary support to students. But, in the ‘learnification’ processes of using technologies in the discipline of language learning: what are some of the principles, approaches and critiques to mediate learning through technologies? How can technology support teaching and learning in a classroom where learner variances, multilingualism and the lack of basic academic literacy skills still show problematic links between technologies and language skills acquisition? In this study, the concept of ‘learnification’ refers to the occurrence where ‘discourse’ reduces all complexities of ‘education’ down to the simplicity of ‘learning’. 

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