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CONTIJOCH, Carmen et al. Two axes for updating distance foreign language teachers: Applied linguistics and educational technology. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2004, vol.26, n.103, pp.56-76. ISSN 0185-2698.

In this article the author highlight the role of foreign languages in the global educational context and show how necessary it seems to be to put teachers up to date in the domain of applied linguistics, with the help of educational technology, wich are necessary for the continuos distance training. Within this wide framwork, the authors discuss the importance of each of the six modules of the *Diplomado Actualización in Applied Linguistics for foreign language teachers (http://comenius.cele.unam.mx/alad), wich took place from between 2000 and 2003 with the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). It finally quotes some outcomes of the use of two axes in the training of more than hundred teachers who were able to update in the use of this program and its importance for the research that was carried out in order to design it.

Palavras-chave : Foreign languages; Teaching; Applied linguistic; Educational Technology; Teacher training.