Language, Learning & Technology articles from February 2008

Language, Learning & Technology archives from February 2008

From the editors.(Editorial)
February 1, 2008... It is our pleasure to introduce Volume 12, Number 1 of Language Learning & Technology, a regular issue of our journal. We want to take this opportunity to wish you a happy and productive 2008, a year proclaimed by the United Nations General...

You've got some GALL: Google-assisted language learning.(ON THE NET)(Google Inc.)(Report)
February 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION "Just google it!" "Have you googled it yet?" "I'll google it later." Commands, inquiries, and intentions of this sort have become so commonplace in class discussions, during meetings, over dinner, and on the...

Emerging Technologies of elastic clouds and treebanks: new opportunities for content-based and data-driven language learning.(Report)
February 1, 2008... Creating effective electronic tools for language learning frequently requires large data sets containing extensive examples of actual human language use. Collections of authentic language in spoken and written forms provide developers the means...

University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC).(NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS)
February 1, 2008... The University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center engages in research and materials development projects and conducts workshops and conferences for language professionals among its many activities. FILIPINO AS A GLOBAL...

Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR).(NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS)
February 1, 2008... CLEAR's mission is to promote the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States. Projects focus on materials development, professional development training, and foreign language research. MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT ...

The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).(NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS)
February 1, 2008... The Center for Applied Linguistics is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes and improves the teaching and learning of languages, identifies and solves problems related to language and culture, and serves as a resource for information...

Review of five English learners' dictionaries on CD-ROM.
February 1, 2008... English learners' dictionaries on CD-ROM are attracting more and more attention, given the enormous potential afforded by the new technologies to enhance language description. McCorduck (1996) states that this "shows the exciting promise of the...

Peer feedback on language form in telecollaboration.
February 1, 2008... We performed a two-phase, year-long research project that explored the impact of peer feedback on language development. We investigated specifically how and when postsecondary learners of English and Spanish provide corrective feedback on their...

The role of offline metalanguage talk in asynchronous computer-mediated communication.
February 1, 2008... In order to demonstrate how learners utilize the text-based asynchronous attributes of the Bulletin Board System, this study explored Japanese-as-a-second-language learners' metalanguage episodes (Swain & Lapkin, 1995, 1998) in offline verbal...

Methodological Hurdles in Capturing CMC Data: the case of the missing self-repair.(computer-mediated communication)(Report)
February 1, 2008... This paper reports on a study of the use of self-repair among learners of German in a task-based CMC environment. The purpose of the study was two-fold. The first goal sought to establish how potential interpretations of CMC data may be very...

Commentary: can free reading take you all the way? A response to Cobb (2007).
February 1, 2008... Cobb (2007) argues that free reading cannot provide L2 readers with sufficient opportunities for acquiring vocabulary in order to reach an adequate level of reading comprehension of English texts. In this paper, we argue that (1) Cobb severely...

Commentary: response to McQuillan and Krashen (2008).(Case study)
February 1, 2008... I was glad to receive a response from Jeff McQuillan and Stephen Krashen to my piece "Computing the Demands of Vocabulary Acquisition from Reading" (Language Learning & Technology, October, 2007), because drafting a reply forces me to be even...