Teaching & Researching Computer-Assisted Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Ken Beatty

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Edition: Second Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Teaching and Researching Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Contents
General Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I Key concepts
The emergence of CALL
A broad discipline
Technology driving CALL
The changing focus of research in CALL
Summary
A brief history of CALL
CALL in the 1950s and 1960s
Simulations
CALL in the 1970s and 1980s
CALL in the 1990s
CALL in the twenty-first century
Summary
Hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia
Hypertext
Hypermedia
Multimedia
Antecedents of multimedia
Science fiction and CALL
The printed book and CALL
Applications to general learning
Applications of multimedia to language learning
Summary
Eight CALL applications
Word processing
Games
Literature
Corpus linguistics
Computer-mediated communication
WWW resources
Adapting other materials for CALL
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile telephones
Summary
Section II The place of CALL in research and teaching
Second-Language Acquisition and models of instruction
Concepts in SLA, behaviourism and constructivism
Comprehensible input and output
Behaviourist models of instruction
Constructivism
Summary
Collaboration and negotiation of meaning
The place of collaboration in CALL
Structuring collaboration
Differences between collaboration and other terms
The range of collaboration and CALL
Collaboration at the computer
Benefits of collaborative learning at the computer
Collaboration, CALL and SLA
Collaboration at the computer as evidenced by discourse
Challenges to collaboration at the computer
Challenges to collaboration in a CALL context
Discourse that evidences challenges to collaboration
Summary
Defining a model of CALL
Defining a model
The need for a CALL model
A model of current non-CALL language learning
Dunkin and Biddle’s model in a CALL context
Various views of CALL
Teacher and pupil classroom behaviour: activities used in CALL
The virtual classroom
Aspects of a CALL model
Summary
Theoretical and pedagogical concerns
Concerns for software development
Pedagogical concerns for classroom practice
Evaluating software
Learning and working styles
Evolving technology
Commercial software
Making better use of existing materials
Copyright and plagiarism
Viruses
Safety online
Technological have-nots
Summary
Section III Researching CALL
Current research interests
A new field: reporting CALL research
Approaches to research in CALL
The computer as a research tool
The role of commercial publishers
Reviewing current studies: a survey
Conducting research
Action Research
Summary
Research
Research context 1: The literature review
Research context 2: The pilot study
Research context 3: Corpus linguistics
Research context 4: Error analysis
Research context 5: The experiment
Research context 6: The case study
Research context 7: The survey
Research context 8: The ethnographic approach
Conclusion
Section IV Resources and Glossary
Resources
Glossary of key terms
References
Index