Language, Learning & Technology articles from February 2009

Language, Learning & Technology archives from February 2009

From the editors.
February 1, 2009... We hope that you have had a good start to the New Year, 2009. In 2008, Language Learning & Technology experienced another record-breaking year in terms of submissions to the journal: 150 articles from 25 countries were submitted. It is our...

From the special issue editor.
February 1, 2009... There was a time, not so long ago, when the teaching of grammar was strongly associated with endless drill and kill exercises that were performed in isolation from meaningful and authentic contexts. Grammar was most commonly taught as a...

Emerging technologies focusing on form: tools and strategies.(intelligent language tutors)
February 1, 2009... Using computers to help students practice and learn grammatical constructions goes back to the earliest days of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). With the coming of the Internet age, CALL began to focus more heavily on the new...

University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC).(NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS)
February 1, 2009... 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. 2008 SECOND LANGUAGE...

Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR).(NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS)
February 1, 2009... 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, 2009... 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 The Hockey Sweater CD-ROM.(Product/service evaluation)
February 1, 2009... The Hockey Sweater CD-ROM is intended for young English language learners ages 11 and up and adult literacy learners whose English proficiency ranges from high beginning to advanced. The CD is meant to be used in an English language classroom...

Review of Teacher Education in Call.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Teacher Education in CALL Philip Hubbard & Mike Levy (Eds.) 2006 ISBN 90-272-1968-0 US $54.00 (paperback) XI, 354 pp John Benjamins Publishing Co. Philadelphia, PA, USA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The use of...

Review of Blended Learning: Using technology in and beyond the language classroom.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Blended Learning: Using technology in and beyond the language classroom Pete Sharma & Barney Barrett 2007 ISBN 978-0-230-02083-2 US $ 23.96 (paperback) 160 pp. Macmillan Publishers Limited Oxford, England...

Textual, genre and social features of spoken grammar: a corpus-based approach.
February 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION As in any other communicative situation, in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts learners need to know what to say and how to say things with words--to echo Austin's (1962) well-known postulates. For these learners,...

The design of an online concordancing program for teaching about reporting verbs.
February 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION Isabel Galloway (2005) has called corpus linguistics "the most significant development in applied linguistics in the last 25 years" (p. 333). Concordancing technology can provide researchers, teachers, and students with a rich...

Student-initiated attention to form in wiki-based collaborative writing.(Report)
February 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION One obvious benefit of technology for language learning is the creation of opportunities for students to use language in authentic contexts. Such activities encourage students to strive for autonomy in the target language....

Computer-mediated corrective feedback and the development of L2 grammar.(second language)(Report)
February 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION A growing body of research has begun to illuminate an emerging relationship between types of corrective feedback and second language learning in face-to-face interaction (e.g., Ammar & Spada, 2006; Carroll, 2001; Ellis, Loewen...