ABSTRACT
Technologies of writing always affect the ways of thinking of people who use them: different possibilities of communication are opened up by slates, printing presses, typewriters and word processors. The two-cultures view of intellectual life is often transferred to computers. It is often simply assumed that Information Technology (IT) is the province of maths and science, and that English or modern language teachers could have nothing to contribute. The conceptual basis of English teaching in general has often been unclear, in comparison, for example, with media studies, where concepts are often very explicit. Language awareness courses must be constructed in explicit and coherent ways: teachers have a responsibility to their pupils to be able to state the content and aims of the syllabus. The evaluation of educational change due to the new technologies involves the analysis of changed cognitive and social relations in the classroom.
