May 1

Housekeeping

Test 3 opens Saturday, closes Wed @midnight

Portfolios due tonight (check your links!)Post it in your blogQuestions about Teaching Philosophy?

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Egbert et al, 2011

What do we know? Learners respond positively

Teachers worry about CALL replacing jobs Mixed findings for effectiveness (unclear)

Not much research in iCALL

Steel & Levy, 2011

"Language students and their technologies:Charting the evolution 2006–2011" ReCALL

Benefits/Components of CALLA. What tools this semester realize one or more of these benefits? (Warschauer & Healey, 1998).

B. What tools this semester realize the eight components listed on p.5 (Warschauer, 1996; Egbert, 2005; Egbert & Hanson-Smith, 2007)?

All: Are there other language learning benefits/components that you have seen NOT listed here?

Benefits (Warschauer & Healey, 1998)

1. Multimodal practice with feedback2. Individualization in a large class3. Pair and small group work on projects, either

collaboratively or competitively4. The fun factor5. Variety in the resources available and learning styles

used6. Exploratory learning with large amounts of language

data7. Real-life skill-building in computer use.

Others?

Components (Warschauer, 1996; Egbert, 2005; Egbert & Hanson-Smith, 2007)

1. Learners have opportunities to interact and negotiate meaning;

2. Learners interact in the target language with an authentic audience;

3. Learners are involved in authentic tasks;4. Learners are exposed to and encouraged to produce varied

and creative language;5. Learners have enough time and feedback;6. Learners are guided to attend mindfully to

the learning process;7. Learners work in an atmosphere with an

ideal stress/anxiety level; and8. Learner autonomy is supported.

Others?

future of technology & learning

The (near) future technology & learning

(caveat: I really have no idea)

1. Mobile devices ubiquitous2. Changing definitions of language

competency (literacy)3. Web-based applications & collaboration4. Hybridization of education (driven by a

variety of stakeholders)

EAP/ESP & Technological Literacy

What technologies are university students expected to be literate in?

What technologies are professionals expected to be literate in?

Adopting CALL in your teaching