Peter Scrimshaw is Lecturer in Education at the Centre for Language and Communications, the Open University.

`This book is an excellent and thought provoking read - Neil Stanley, Computer Education (June 94)

• Part I: Computers in context 1 Teachers, learners and computers 2 Theories of learning and information technology 3 Computer-based activities in classroom contexts 4 Collaborative learning with computers 5 The teacher’s role 6 Access to learning: problems and policies Part II: Computers and language development 7 Software: an underestimated variable? 8 Cooperative writing with computers 9 Communicating through computers in the classroom 10 Text completion programs 11 Computer-based approaches to second language learning 12 Reading, writing and hypertext 13 Researching the electronic classroom

Peter Scrimshaw is Lecturer in Education at the Centre for Language and Communications, the Open University.

`This book is an excellent and thought provoking read - Neil Stanley, Computer Education (June 94)

• Part I: Computers in context 1 Teachers, learners and computers 2 Theories of learning and information technology 3 Computer-based activities in classroom contexts 4 Collaborative learning with computers 5 The teacher’s role 6 Access to learning: problems and policies Part II: Computers and language development 7 Software: an underestimated variable? 8 Cooperative writing with computers 9 Communicating through computers in the classroom 10 Text completion programs 11 Computer-based approaches to second language learning 12 Reading, writing and hypertext 13 Researching the electronic classroom

Peter Scrimshaw is Lecturer in Education at the Centre for Language and Communications, the Open University.

`This book is an excellent and thought provoking read - Neil Stanley, Computer Education (June 94)

• Part I: Computers in context 1 Teachers, learners and computers 2 Theories of learning and information technology 3 Computer-based activities in classroom contexts 4 Collaborative learning with computers 5 The teacher’s role 6 Access to learning: problems and policies Part II: Computers and language development 7 Software: an underestimated variable? 8 Cooperative writing with computers 9 Communicating through computers in the classroom 10 Text completion programs 11 Computer-based approaches to second language learning 12 Reading, writing and hypertext 13 Researching the electronic classroom