Bridging the gaps: Using social media to develop techno-pedagogical competences in pre-service language teacher education

摘要: To use technology effectively in the language classroom, pre-service teachers must develop basic techno-pedagogical competences for classroom and learn to select from abundant online resources. Research underlines importance of autonomous, collaborative networked approaches in-service teacher education present empirical study extends this model trainees. It investigates whether constructivist principles group collaboration, web-based research, social networking can inform effective course design several target languages what extent these acquire skills, filter content, adopt learning practices without direct contact with learners. Group projects involving curation, wikis media were analysed results show progress competences, attitudes ICT, suggesting allow trainee benefit contribute teaching resources, laying groundwork ongoing professional development.