Language learning

Draft

Definition

This will be an overview page on technology used in language learning (including second language learning)

Technology

Computer-based training (CBT)

• Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

Simulations and games

• MUDs and MOOs

Computer-mediated-communication (CMC)

• Blogs
• Wikis

Links

General

• Technology and Second Language Teaching / La technologie et l'enseignement des langues secondes
• Jim Duber on CALL
• The New Tanuki (Out of service, but still useful)

On-line environments & examples

• Lets Talk
• Aaron Patric Campbell's Blog
• JALT 06 Blogging Workshop, in particular Issues with Weblogs in Language Learning

Journals

Focus on edutech & language learning

• Language learning & technology (LLT) Journal (open access referred journal for second and foreign language educators)

• Teaching English with Technology A Journal for Teachers of English (open access)

• CALICO Journal (Access restricted)

• Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (Access restricted)

Other (that include edutech research)

• Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL-EJ). (open access)

• The Modern Language Journal (Access restricted) (includes some articles that are edutech related).

• The Reading Matrix (Journal Home Page) (some articles that are edutech related)

References

• Blake, Rober J. Technology, Multimedia, and Second Language Learning, A McGraw-Hill World Languages page, HTML

• Campbell, Aaron Patric (2003), Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes, The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. IX, No. 2, February 2003. [1]

• Campbell, Aaron (2005). Weblog Applications for EFL/ESL Classroom Blogging: A Comparative Review, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, December 2005, Volume 9, Number 3. HTML

• Dieu, Barbara; Aaron P. Campbell and Rudolf Ammann (2006), P2p And Learning Ecologies In Efl/Esl, Teaching English with Technology, A Journal for Teachers of English (ISSN 1642-1027), Vol. 6, Issue 3 (August 2006). HTML.

• Rod Ellis (2003). Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-442159-7. (See review)

• Godwin-Jones, Bob (2005). Emerging Technologies - Messaging, Gaming, Peer-to-peer Sharing: Language Learning Strategies & Tools for the Millennial Generation, Language Learning & Technology. January 2005, Volume 9, Number 1, pp. 17-22, PDF

• Godwin-Jones, Bob (2003). Emerging Technologies - Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration. Language Learning & Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2, May 2003, pp. 12-16 HTML - PDF

• Oxford, Rebecca; Jill Shearin (1994). Language Learning Motivation: Expanding the Theoretical Framework, The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 78, No. 1. (Spring, 1994), pp. 12-28. HTML/PDF

• Pinkman, Kathleen (2005). Using Blogs in the Foreign Language Classroom: Encouraging Learner Independence, The JALT CALL Journal, 2005, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 12-24 Copyright © CALL SIG (ISSN 1832-4215) - PDF

• Steven L. Thorne and J. Scott Payne (2005), Evolutionary Trajectories, Internet-mediated Expression, and Language Education. CALICO Journal, 22 (3), pp 371-397. PDF