Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is an approach to language teaching and learning in which computer technology is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial interactive element. This books provides an up-to date and comprehensive overview of computer-assisted language learning.

Computer Assisted Language Learning (Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning)

Reference

Pennington, Martha

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

An excellent collection of research studies carried out with mature (late adolescent or adult) language learners in second and foreign language instructional contexts. The computer medium of these qualitative and quantitative studies embraces not only word processing, but also email, hypertext and webpages. Chapters include: Word Processing and Beyond; Word Processing in the EFL Classroom; A Comparative Study of Text Analysis and Peer Tutoring as Input to Writing on Computer in an ESL Context; The Effect of Peer Feedback versus Self-Assessment on the Quality and Revisions of Compositions; Effects of Teaching of Revision Strategies in a Computer-Based Environment; and Investigating Academic Writing Online.

Writing in an Electronic Medium

English as a Second Language

Athelstan Publications

<p>This work overviews the literature and practice regarding word processing and the non-native writer, especially the student of English as a second language. It considers the nature and potentials of the medium, and provides discussion of linguistic, psychological and pedagogical considerations.</p>

The Computer and the Non-Native Writer: A Natural Partnership (Written Language)

Literature & Fiction

Hampton Pr

This work overviews the literature and practice regarding word processing and the non-native writer, especially the student of English as a second language. It considers the nature and potentials of the medium, and provides discussion of linguistic, psychological and pedagogical considerations.

Computer and the Non Native Writer: A Natural Partnership (Written Language)

<p>"Language Program Leadership in a Changing World: An Ecological Model" presents a comprehensive view of management and leadership in language programs as situated in a complex, globalized context with rapidly changing characteristics. The language program is described as an extensive ecology made up of many different types of interacting parts, which leaders of these programs must manage and balance with strong attention to context and to the future. The discussion emphasizes the complexity of the job of leading a language program and the many types of roles the leadership must fill in monitoring the program and its context for continuity and change and leading with an eye the future. The focus is on college and university English language programs, with discussion of the place they occupy within academia and in relation to other types of language programs (e.g. foreign language and English composition). The book is both practical and theoretical, offering case studies and overviews of 'nuts and bolts' issues of administration such as financial, data, and people management, in addition to an original model that problematizes and theorizes the language program based on notions of ecology and frames, a review of research, and suggestions for further research.</p>

Language Program Leadership in a Changing World: An Ecological Model (Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching)

Business & Money

Hoekje, Barbara

Management & Leadership

BRILL