Language, Learning & Technology articles from May 2003

Language, Learning & Technology archives from May 2003

From the editors.(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... Welcome to Volume 7, Number 2 of Language Learning and Technology. Julie A. Belz has done an outstanding job guest editing this special issue on telecollaboration in conjunction with Associate Editor Rick Kern. We hope you find it...

From the special issue editor.(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... It is a genuine pleasure to introduce this special issue of Language Learning & Technology on telecollaborative foreign language study. Telecollaboration involves the application of global computer networks to foreign (and second) language...

On the net: tele-collaborative projects: monsters.com?
May 1, 2003... Collaborative projects are a natural for the language class because all language is fundamentally communicative and collaboration requires real communication to work. By creating an environment in which students want to communicate in a...

Emerging technologies: blogs and wikis: environments for on-line collaboration.
May 1, 2003... Language professionals have embraced the world of collaborative opportunities the Internet has introduced. Many tools--e-mail, discussion forums, chat--are by now familiar to many language teachers. Recent innovations--blogs, wikis, and RSS...

University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)
May 1, 2003... The University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center engages in research and materials development projects and conducts Summer Institutes for language professionals among its many activities. Available Online from the NFLRC...

Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)
May 1, 2003... CLEAR's mission is to promote the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States. To meet its goals, projects focus on foreign language research, materials development, and professional development training. FOREIGN...

Australian Technology Enhanced Language Learning Consortium (ATELL).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)
May 1, 2003... Contacts: Assoc. Prof. Mike Levy, Griffith University (michael.levy@mailbox.gu.edu.au) Dr. Robert Debski, The University of Melbourne (r.debski@hlc.unimelb.edu.au) ATELL is pleased to announce the availability of the CALL Catalogue:...

Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (ALSIC).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... ALSIC (Language Learning and Information and Communication Systems, http://alsic.org/) is an electronic journal in French for researchers and practitioners in fields related to applied linguistics, didactics, psycholinguistics, educational...

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota (CARLA).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... CARLA is one of several National Language Resource Centers whose role is to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. Launched in 1993 with funding from the national Title VI Language Resource Center...

The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)
May 1, 2003... 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...

Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Since its inception in 1983, CALICO has served as an international forum for language teachers who want to develop and utilize the potential of advanced technology to support their teaching and research needs. Through its Annual Symposia,...

European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... EUROCALL is an association of language teaching professionals from Europe and worldwide aiming to * Promote the use of foreign languages within Europe * Provide a European focus for all aspects of the use of technology for language...

International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT).(News From Sponsoring Organizations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Established in 1965, IALLT (formerly IALL) is a professional organization whose members provide leadership in the development, integration, evaluation, and management of instructional technology for the teaching and learning of language,...

Language and the Internet.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Language and the Internet David Crystal 2001 ISBN 0 521 80212 1 [pounds sterling]15.00 272 pp. Cambridge University Press 110 Midland Avenue Port Chester, NY 10573-4930 http://uk.cambridge.org/ ...

Network-based Language Teaching: Concepts and Practice.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Network-Based Language Teaching: Concepts and Practice Mark Warschauer & Richard Kern, Editors Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series Michael H. Long & Jack C. Richards, Series Editors 2000 ISBN 0-521-66742-9 $25.00US...

Pronunciacion y Fonetica, version 2.1.
May 1, 2003... Name of Product Pronunciacion y Fonetica, version 2.1 Patricia V. Lunn, Michigan State University (program author) Claire Bradin and Dennie Hoopingarner ...

Artifacts and cultures-of-use in intercultural communication.
May 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding how intercultural communication, mediated by cultural artifacts (i.e., Internet communication tools), creates compelling, problematic, and surprising conditions for...

Linguistic perspectives on the development of intercultural competence in telecollaboration (1).
May 1, 2003... ABSTRACT It is widely reported (e.g., Belz & Muller-Hartmann, 2002; Kern, 1996; Kinginger, in press; Warschauer & Kern, 2000) that the goals of telecollaborative language study are the development of foreign language (FL) linguistic...

Understanding the "other side": intercultural learning in a Spanish-English e-mail exchange.
May 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Intercultural learning is often assumed to be an automatic benefit of e-mail exchanges between groups of learners in different countries, but little research exists on whether on-line intercultural collaboration does actually...

Negotiation of meaning and codeswitching in online tandems.(International Tandem Network)
May 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This paper analyses negotiation of meaning and codeswitching in discourse between 29 language students from classes at a German and a North American university, who teamed up with their peers to collaborate on projects whose...