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Language, Learning & Technology archives from September 2005
From the editors.
September 1, 2005... Welcome to the third issue of 2005. LLT is entering its 9th year of publication and continues to receive increasing numbers of submissions and experience a growing readership. In 2004, we received a record number of 100 submissions from 26...
From the special issue editors.
September 1, 2005... In the last few years, technology has consolidated its place as an important resource in the planning, implementation and evaluation of language programs. Use of technology for both content delivery and learning management is now widespread. In...
First, you have to hear it! ESL oral language practice.(English as second language, Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab )
September 1, 2005... There is no question that the development of oral language skills in second (as well as first) language learners is of prime importance. Language learners must focus on oral language proficiency because it is eventually the skill they will most...
Skype and podcasting: disruptive technologies for language learning.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES)
September 1, 2005... New technologies, or new uses of existing technologies, continue to provide unique opportunities for language learning. This is in particular the case for several new network options for oral language practice. Both Skype and podcasting can be...
University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC).(services)
September 1, 2005... Sponsors
University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
Co-Sponsor
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
The University of...
Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR).(services)
September 1, 2005... Sponsors
University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
Co-Sponsor
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
CLEAR's mission is...
The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).(services)
September 1, 2005... Sponsors
University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
Co-Sponsor
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
The Center for...
Review of SEER 2.0: Spanish English education resources.(Product/Service Evaluation)
September 1, 2005... OVERVIEW
SEER (Spanish English Education Resources) version 2.0 is a software that offers bilingual language learning resources for English-Spanish translation. The product can be downloaded from the Word Magic company site...
Comparative review: TextSTAT 2.5, AntConc 3.0, and Compleat Lexical Tutor 4.0.(Product/Service Evaluation)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION
With the advance of corpus linguistics research in the past few decades, there has been a proliferation of corpus software. Due to the high cost of most software products, however, having access to minimally sophisticated...
Review of Russian language instructional sites on the Web (based on Sher's Russian index).
September 1, 2005... You are your institution's Web guru on less commonly taught languages. The part-time teacher of Russian, relatively unschooled in second language acquisition (SLA), whose Web skills end at ordering a book from Amazon, asks you for...
Synchronous CMC, working memory, and L2 oral proficiency development.(computer-mediated communication)(second language)
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT
Recently a number of quasi-experimental studies have investigated the potential of a cross-modality transfer of second language competency between real-time, conversational exchange via text and speech (Abrams, 2003; Beauvious,...
Told like it is! An evaluation of an integrated oral development pilot project.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT
Much established pedagogical and CALL (computer-assisted language learning) research advocates an integrated constructivist approach to the use of technology in language learning. This paper reports on a pilot project delivered to...
Conversations--and negotiated interaction--in text and voice chat rooms.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT
Despite the expanded use of the Internet for language learning and practice, little attention if any has been given to the quality of interaction among English L2 speakers in conversational text or voice chat rooms. This study...
Establishing a methodology for benchmarking speech synthesis for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT
Despite the new possibilities that speech synthesis brings about, few Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) applications integrating speech synthesis have found their way onto the market. One potential reason is that the...
Oral interaction around computers in the project-oriented call classroom.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT
Language teachers need to provide students with a context for genuine communication (Sullivan, 2000). Project-oriented computer-assisted language learning (PrOCALL) attempts to achieve this by orienting learners towards tasks,...
Analyzing oral skills in voice e-mail and online interviews.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT
This study investigated the acquisition of speaking skills in an online distance education course of 19 first semester Spanish learners. The possibility of oral development in a strictly online course was examined based on...