WorldCALL: International Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Mike Levy, Françoise Blin, Claire Bradin Siskin, Osamu Takeuchi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As technological innovation continues to affect language pedagogy, there is an increasing demand for information, exemplars, analysis and guidance. This edited volume focuses on international perspectives in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in all of its forms, including Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for Language Learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Introduction: WorldCALL: International Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning......Page 18
Part I: New Technologies, New Pedagogies......Page 24
1 Blogging, Collaborative Writing, and Multimodal Literacy in an EFL Context......Page 26
2 Podcasting in Foreign Language Learning: Insights for Podcast Design from a Developmental Research Project......Page 42
3 Mobile Technologies and Language Learning in Japan: Learn Anywhere, Anytime......Page 61
4 EFL Students’ Metalinguistic Awareness in E-Mail Tandem......Page 78
5 Facilitating Collaborative Language Learning in a Multicultural Distance Class over Broadband Networks: Learner Awareness to Cross-Cultural Understanding......Page 93
Part II: Developing Language Skills through Technology......Page 106
6 Improving Pronunciation via Accent Reduction and Text-to-Speech Software......Page 108
7 Using Computer Keystroke Recording Software to Analyze Patterns of Revision in English Language Schools......Page 120
8 Modeling Language Learners’ Knowledge: What Information Can Be Inferred from Learners’ Free Written Texts?......Page 137
9 Automatic Online Writing Support for L2 Learners of German through Output Monitoring by a Natural-Language Paraphrase Generator......Page 151
10 EFL Acquisition of English Causative Alternation with Integrated Concordances......Page 167
Part III: Materials Design and Development......Page 184
11 Blended Learning, Empowerment, and World Languages in Higher Education: The Flexi-Pack Project for “Languages of the Wider World”......Page 186
12 Intermediate Online English: An Example of Self-Access Courseware Development......Page 195
13 Integration of Technology for Effective Learning, Teaching, and Assessment......Page 211
14 The E-Job 100 Project: CALL for Increasing Motivation for Learning English......Page 225
Part IV: Learner Training......Page 236
15 Pervasive CALL Learner Training for Improving Listening Proficiency......Page 238
16 Guiding the E-Learner in Foreign Language and Communication Courses......Page 253
Part V: Teacher Education......Page 262
17 The Use of ICTs in Foreign Language Teaching: The Challenges of a Teachers’ Education Program......Page 264
18 “We Argentines Are Not as Other People”: Collaborative Learning Online in an Underserved Country......Page 280
19 Electronic Portfolios in a BA CALL Course: Supporting Reflective and Autonomous Learning......Page 298
20 Voices from EFL Teachers: A Qualitative Investigation of Teachers’ Use of CALL......Page 316
Contributors......Page 336
Index......Page 346