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20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

As a professional organisation, EUROCALL has been aiming to promote innovative research, development and practice in the area of computer assisted language learning (CALL) and technology enhanced language learning (TELL) in education and training. These conference proceedings establish an overview of EUROCALL as it celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-08
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The ability to effectively communicate with individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds is an invaluable asset. Learning a second language proves useful as students navigate the culturally diverse world; however, studying a second language can be difficult for learners who are not immersed in the real and natural environment of the foreign language. Also, changes in education and advancements in information and communication technologies pose a number of challenges for implementing and maintaining sound practices within technology-enhanced language learning (TELL). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning provides information on educational tech...

CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021

The 2021 EUROCALL conference engaged just under 250 speakers from 40 different countries. Cnam Paris and Sorbonne Université joined forces to host and organise the event despite the challenging context due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally programmed to be held on site in the heart of Paris, France, the EUROCALL organising team and executive committee agreed to opt for a blended and then for a fully online conference. The theme of the 2021 EUROCALL conference was “CALL & Professionalisation”. This volume, a selection of 54 short papers by some of the EUROCALL 2021 presenters, offers a combination of research studies as well as practical examples fairly representative of the theme of the conference.

Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch

The book provides an overview of more than a decade of joint R&D efforts in the Low Countries on HLT for Dutch. It not only presents the state of the art of HLT for Dutch in the areas covered, but, even more importantly, a description of the resources (data and tools) for Dutch that have been created are now available for both academia and industry worldwide. The contributions cover many areas of human language technology (for Dutch): corpus collection (including IPR issues) and building (in particular one corpus aiming at a collection of 500M word tokens), lexicology, anaphora resolution, a semantic network, parsing technology, speech recognition, machine translation, text (summaries) gener...

Teaching the Chinese Language Remotely
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Teaching the Chinese Language Remotely

This edited book brings together global perspectives and case studies from five continents to provide an international picture of teaching Chinese remotely. It consists of 15 original chapters by 21 authors from 10 countries. Addressing both practice and research, these chapters collectively offer a comprehensive view of how Chinese language courses worldwide were urgently moved to fully online during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.This edited volume reports fresh and first-hand experiences of Chinese language instructors and students in different countries as well as their perceptions of issues regarding remote teaching and learning in an emergency situation.The book will be of interest to Chinese language teachers and students, as well as scholars with a focus on language education and online teaching and learning more broadly.

Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 613

Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-02-28
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Provides comprehensive coverage of successful translation of language learning designs utilizing ICT in practical learning contexts. Offers the latest knowledge related to research on computer-enhanced language acquisition and learning.

Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching

This book illustrates new virtual intercultural practices for language learning from primary to tertiary education and highlights the transversality of these practices throughout the language curriculum. The current English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) perspective sets the framework as a possible vector of cultural exchanges in a variety of contexts, and from which the different authors coming from Europe and all over the world present their studies. The book deploys diverse educational exchanges within a wide range of technological tools and with varied approaches to the intercultural dimension in language learning. Through these virtual exchanges, different languages and educational cultures c...

CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016

The 23rd EUROCALL conference was organised by the Cyprus University of Technology Language Centre. The theme of the conference was “CALL communities and Culture”. Between the 24th and 27th August 2016, over 135 presentations were delivered and 27 posters were presented; 84 of these presentations appear in this volume of selected peer-reviewed short papers.

Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content

An overview of current issues and developments in foreign language education, designed for instructors of language, literature, and culture at any stage of their careers A contemporary guide to foreign language education, this book presents the latest developments and issues in the field of applied linguistics. It leads instructors to make vital connections between theory and practice and to develop innovative lesson plans, classroom activities, and course materials that align with the specific contexts in which they teach. A textbook for teaching methods courses, as well as a reference for instructors of language, literature, and culture at any stage in their careers, the book is applicable across all lower- and upper-level courses.

Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018

The 26th EUROCALL conference was organised by the University of Jyväskylä (JYU) Language Campus and specifically the Language Centre. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters’, which reflects an attempt to envision language teaching and learning futures in a changing world. What brought researchers together this year are shared concerns in relation to the sustainability of language learning and teaching in technology-rich contexts that are marked by ever-increasing complexity. The collection of short papers in this volume is a very thorough view into the conference proper exhibiting the complexity and novelty of the field of CALL. There are exciting new openings and a more profound exploration of theoretical underpinnings of the contemporary issues in teaching and learning, cross-cultural communication, mobile learning and the like.