Schweinhorst (2003) discusses the framework of CMC in three different perspectives: the individual-cognitive, the social-interactive, and the experimental-participatory, which are interdependent to each others. Indeed, they all help both learners and educators to reflect upon the awareness on language development through technology.
This article gives me a strong call on promoting web-based autonomous learning in adult continuing education. Nowadays, free online educational websites are easily acessible and adult students should learn to make good use of them due to their limited time spends on lessons. However, they should be aware the pedagogical value of them at first, and teachers must be the essential ones to faciliate them.
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