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27 August 2001: CALL Seminar

Funded by the ODTL Teaching and Learning Fund with Dr Mike Levy (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) Organisation of a public lecture by Levy.

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) SEMINAR:

BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN DISCIPLINES AND BETWEEN RESEARCH AND TEACHING

27 August 2001, 10.00 – 13.00

With the participation of Dr Mike Levy (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

First announcement and call for contributions
This SALIS seminar, funded by the DCU Teaching and Learning Fund and following an initial CALL workshop (http://webpages.dcu.ie/~blinf/callwshp1) aims at facilitating the exchange of research and teaching experiences between colleagues or post-graduate students who have an interest in CALL and in one or more of the following: Educational Technology, Courseware development, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Studies, Translation Studies, Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Corpus Linguistics or Natural Language Processing, Human Computer Interaction, etc.

It will also provide participating colleagues with the opportunity to better understand some of the theoretical foundations of CALL and to gain some valuable insights in the current debates surrounding the relationship between CALL, Second Language Acquisition and Natural Language Processing.

The seminar will be followed by a public lecture given by Dr Mike Levy: Building Bridges in CALL: Teaching & Research. Dr Mike Levy is the worldwide known author of Computer Assisted Language Learning: Context and Conceptualization.

Participating colleagues wishing to make a contribution are invited to present, in 15 minutes maximum, a brief account of their experience, questions or misgivings in relation to CALL (research, development, practice) and to related fields. Eligible topics include: use of email tandem learning, videoconferencing, word-processing, World Wide Web, authoring tools, concordancers, speech technology, terminology management systems, parsers and taggers, satellite TV, etc. Topics can be approached from a teaching point of view (i.e. colleagues present what they teach and how…), development point of view (presentations of original tools or artefacts) or research point of view (research questions being investigated, methodology used, etc.). Alternatively, colleagues may present what, in their views, prevents them from using technology in their teaching practice.

Proposals for contributions can be sent to Françoise Blin by email (francoise.blin@dcu.ie) before 30 June 2001.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME


09.45 – 10.00 Opening of seminar
10.00 - 11.00 Session 1: Building bridges between research and teaching (Presentations + discussion)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 13.00 Session 2: Building bridges between disciplines: CALL and related fields (Presentations + discussion)
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch (participants make their own arrangements)
14.30 - 16.00 Session 4: "Building Bridges in CALL: Teaching &
Research" by Dr Mike Levy (Public lecture/ seminar)

For more information, contact:
Françoise Blin
SALIS, DCU
Email: francoise.blin@dcu.ie