WorldCALL

<p>As technological innovation continues to affect language pedagogy, there is an increasing demand for information, exemplars, analysis and guidance. This edited volume focuses on international perspectives in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in all of its forms, including Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for Language Learning. </p> <p>List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Introduction. <strong>Section 1: New Technologies, New Pedagogies </strong>1. Blogging, Collaborative Writing and Multimodal Literacy in an EFL Context <em>Hsien-Chin Liou </em>2. Podcasting in Foreign Language Learning: Insights for Podcast Design from a Developmental Research Project <em>Wai Meng Chan, Ing Ru Chen and Martin G. Döpel </em>3. Mobile Technologies and Language Learning in Japan: Learn Anywhere, Anytime <em>Midori Kimura, Hiroyuki Obari and Yoshiko Goda </em>4. EFL Students’ Metalinguistic Awareness in E-Mail Tandem <em>Akihiko Sasaki and Osamu Takeuchi </em>5. Facilitating Collaborative Language Learning in a Multicultural Distance Class over Broadband Networks: Learner Awareness to Cross-Cultural Understanding <em>Yuri Nishihori </em><strong>Section 2: Developing Language Skills through Technology </strong>6. Improving Pronunciation by Accent Reduction and Text-to-Speech Software <em>Ferit Kılıçkaya </em>7. Using Computer Keystroke Recording Software to Analyse Patterns of Revision in English Language Schools <em>Erifili Roubou </em>8. Modeling Language Learners’ Knowledge: What Information Can Be Inferred =From Learners’ Free Written Texts? <em>Sylvie Thouësny and Françoise Blin </em>9. Automatic Online Writing Support for L2 Learners of German Through Output Monitoring by a Natural-Language Paraphrase Generator <em>Karin Harbusch and Gerard Kempen </em>10. EFL Acquisition of English Causative Alternation with Integrated Concordances <em>Yuxia Wang and Suen Caesar Lun </em><strong>Section 3: Materials Design & Development </strong>11. Blended Learning, Empowerment, and World Languages in Higher Education: The Flexi-Pack Project for ‘Languages of the Wider World’ <em>Nathalie Ticheler and Itesh Sachdev </em>12. Intermediate Online English: An Example of Self-Access Courseware Development <em>Ana Gimeno-Sanz </em>13. Integration of Technology for Effective Learning, Teaching and Assessment <em>Debbie Corder and Alice U </em>14. The E-Job 100 Project: CALL for Increasing Motivation for Learning English <em>Akiyoshi Suzuki and Teresa Kuwamura </em><strong>Section 4: Learner Training </strong>15. Pervasive CALL Learner Training for Improving Listening Proficiency <em>Kenneth Romeo and Philip Hubbard </em>16. Guiding the E-Learner in Foreign Language and Communication Courses <em>Maija Tammelin, Berit Peltonen and Pasi Puranen </em><strong>Section 5: Teacher Education </strong>17. The Use of ICTs in Foreign Language Teaching: The Challenges of a Teachers’ Education Program <em>Carla Barsotti and Claudia Martins </em>18. ‘We Argentines Are Not as Other People’: Collaborative Learning Online in an Underserved Country <em>Marie-Noëlle Lamy </em>19. Electronic Portfolios in a BA CALL Course: Supporting Reflective And Autonomous Learning <em>Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous </em>20. Voices from EFL Teachers: A Quantitative Investigation of Teachers’ Use of CALL <em>Seijiro Sumi</em></p>