WorldCALL: Sustainability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching)

Ana María Gimeno Sanz

ISBN 10: 1474248306 / ISBN 13: 9781474248303

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WorldCALL: Sustainability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474248306
• ISBN 13: 9781474248303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume focuses on computer- and digitally-assisted language learning in all of its forms: technology-enhanced language learning, network-based language learning, mobile-assisted language learning and so on, in close relation to the topic of sustainability. How can these technologies and techniques be implemented in a sustainable and repeatable way? The book covers a wide range of areas in terms of this "sustainability". These include:

(1) education (teacher/learner training)
(2) normalisation (integration)
(3) systems (reliability, support, development)
(4) mobility (mobile-assisted language leaning)
(5) innovation (trends, research)

The volume samples research and practice in CALL from around the world, organised into sections. It has an introduction and a conclusion written by the editors (Ana Gimeno, Mike Levy, Françoise Blin and David Barr) which covers the state of the art at the moment and directions it is likely to take in the future.

About the Authors

Member of the teaching and research staff at the Department of Applied Linguistics, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain, since 1985 and Senior Lecturer in English Language.

Michael Thomas is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Chair of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Mike Levy is Professor of Second Language Studies and Director of the Brisbane Universities Languages Alliance (BULA) in the School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Mark Peterson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Kyoto University, Japan.

Françoise Blin is Senior Lecturer at Dublin City University, Ireland