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Registration for 'CALL for THE 21st CENTURY' - now open !!
IATEFL Computer Sig Event to be held at ESADE, Barcelona, Spain. June 30th - July 2nd, 2000.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
· Carol Chapelle: CALL in the 21st century: Looking back on research to look forward for practice
·
Catherine Doughty: What do computers assist in language
learning? Perspectives from SLA research.
·
Chris Tribble: Language Corpora: what relevance do any
of them have for English language teachers?
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Gavin Dudeney: The Global Classroom
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Martha Pennington: Writing Minds and Talking Fingers:
Doing Literacy in an Electronic Age
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Mark Warschauer: The Death of Cyberspace and the
Rebirth of CALL
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Paul Brett: Multimedia - a breakthrough for CALL?
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Gary Motteram: Language Teacher Education in the age of
ICT
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Geoff Jordan: Five Environments for CALL
There are 50 more papers and a full timetable, registration forms to print out, and all information can be seen on the computer Sig www pages at:-
http://www.paddocks64.freeserve.co.uk/CompSIG2/esade.htm
This conference aims to provide a "state of the art" overview of
the many uses of computers to assist language learners by drawing together some
of the world's leading CALL practitioners.
The application of computers to various aspects of the language learning
process has existed for more than 30 years.
Applications have been made to all the language skills: writing, reading,
speaking, listening, and use been made of a variety of computer technologies. The arrival of multimedia and the Internet
has caused an enormous growth of interest in CALL, and in the last ten years we
have seen a growing body of research into the ways in which computers can best facilitate
language acquisition. Has CALL finally
come of age? Will new technologies
change the way we teach and learn a foreign language? Will they change the way we train our language teachers? The
conference aims to provide participants with both an authoritative overview of
where we are in CALL from some of those at the forefront in the world of CALL ,
together with some answers to questions about what the future holds.
Paul Brett
Co-ordinator IATEFL Computer Sig
Geoff Jordan
ESADE Idiomas
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