WorldCALL: Sustainability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Françoise Blin; David Barr; Ana Gimeno; Mike Levy (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Series: Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume focuses on computer- and digitally-assisted language learning in all of its forms: technology-enhanced language learning, network-based language learning, mobile-assisted language learning and so on, in close relation to the topic of sustainability. How can these technologies and techniques be implemented in a sustainable and repeatable way? The book covers a wide range of areas in terms of this "sustainability". These include :
(1) education (teacher/learner training)
(2) normalisation (integration)
(3) systems (reliability, support, development)
(4) mobility (mobile-assisted language leaning)
(5) innovation (trends, research)
The volume samples research and practice in CALL from around the world, organised into sections. It hasan introduction and a conclusion written by the editors (Ana Gimeno, Mike Levy, Françoise Blin and David Barr) which covers the state of the art at the moment and directions it is likely to take in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Teacher Education and CALL
1. Learning for the Long Haul: Developing Perceptions of Learning Affordances in CALL Teachers
2. Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Sustainable Digitally Based Language Pedagogies in English Teacher Education Programs
3. Creating Pedagogical Knowledge Through Electronic Materials in a Telecollaboration Project for Pre-Service Teacher Trainees
4. Promoting Student Collaborative Reflective Interaction Using Wikis and VoiceThreads
5. How Language Teachers Become Effective Users of CALL for Online Teaching and Learning: A Case Study of Their Developmental Processes in a Transformative e-Training Course
Part 2: Normalization of CALL
6. Factors that Determine CALL Integration into Modern Languages Courses in Brazil
7. Sustainable Interaction-Based Research in CALL
8. Factors in Sustainable CALL
Part 3: CALL Systems
9. From a Vision to Reality: Paving the Way for CALL Sustainability by Harmonizing Theory, Practice and Technology in the Creation of an EFL b-Learning Environment for Chilean Learners
10. Building and Sustaining Online Communities of Practice Through Language Economy
11. A Student Self-Evaluation System: Sustaining Outside-of-Class CALL Activities in a University Efl Blended Learning Course
Part 4: Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
12. An Evidence-Based Study of Hong Kong University Students’ Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) Experience
13. Students’ Perspectives on the Affordances and Constraints of Using Mobile Devices and Applications for Learning Languages
14. Mobile App Design for Individual and Sustainable MALL: Implications from an Empirical Analysis
15. Improving Learners’ Reading Skills Through Instant Short Messages: A Sample Study Using WhatsApp
Part 5: Innovation in CALL
16. Eyetracking in CALL – Present and Future
17. Using Text Analysers as an Aid to Examining the Effects of Task Complexity on Academic L2 Writing
18. How to Tell Digital Stories with Handcrafted Video Clips: A (Multi-)Literacies Approach to Foreign Language Teaching
Conclusion
Index