CILT Research Forum - Information technology
Mark Warschauer, researcher at the National Foreign Language Resource
Centre, University of Hawaii, was the opening keynote speaker at the research
forum Information technology: the pedagogical implications for language
teaching and learning held at Homerton College, Cambridge between
Tuesday 6 January 1998 and Wednesday 7 January 1998.
The event brought together researchers and practitioners, mostly working
in the higher education field, from all over Britain and beyond. The summaries
below have been provided by the speakers, whose talks focused on the key
topic of the forum, information technology and its implications for language
teaching and learning.
| Transcript of speech given at final
plenary
Professor Chris Brumfit, University of Southampton
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| The TELL Consortium: summative evaluation
Sue Hewer, IT Education Consultant and Author |
| The potential contribution of informational
/ encyclopaedic CD-ROM packages to the acquisition of language and
knowledge in an advanced level context
Philip Hood, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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| Resource Based Learning (RBL) and modern
languages: the delivery of resource-based learning
Angelika Kilian-Neal, M.Ed.,Programme Manager, The Language Centre,
Cornwall College |
| The Design and Evaluation of a Second
Language Tutoring System. What Works, what doesn't
Laporte N, N C Ellis, C O'Dochartaigh, B Hicks, E Hughes, P Quinn,
& M Morgan, School of Psychology, University of Wales |
| A new computer program which helps students
to correct their own compositions - its role in classroom and teacher
development
Jim Lawley and Tim Read, Universidad de Educación a Distancia
(U.N.E.D.), Spain |
| "Che cosa vuoi dire?" ("What do you
mean by that?") Analysis of an Italian speaking electronic community
through the eyes of the non-native speaker
Marina Mozzon-McPherson, University of Hull- Language Institute
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| Text jumbling software
Catherine Pope, Course leader (French),Goldsmiths College, University
of London |
| The effectiveness of Computer Assisted
Language Learning (CALL) in secondary schools
Heather Rendall, Independent Advice and Training (IAT) |
| HYPERHISP: Word-processors revisited:
IT before,during & after the classroom
Jesus Soria, Department of Languages, University of Northumbria
at Newcastle |
| Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and
CALL
Professor Richard Towell, University of Salford |
| CALL vs. Electronic Literacy: Reconceiving
Technology in the Language Classroom
Mark Warschauer, University of Hawai'i |
