What is CALL?

History of CALL

** A History of the Foundation of CALL-IS

A Brief History of CALL Theory by Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith

 

CALL activities in the classroom

Web based activities for ESL Learners (Ordered by topics)

Word Processing-based Activities for a Language Class (by Claire Bradin Siskin)

 

Articles on CALL

Agata Zieba-Warcholak (2004) Creating interactive materials for ESL/ELT (Onestopeglish, Heinemann)

Vance Stevens (2004) Literature on CALL and Language Learning Online

 

CALL personal Web Sites

David Eastment (Freelance, Cambridge, UK)

Graham Davies (Emeritus Professor of Computer Assisted Language Learning)

James Simpson (University of Leeds) A very good collection of his own work on this field.

Joaquim Llisterri (Uab, Spain) Great professional of phonetics and many other fields of Philology)

Joseph Rezeau (Université de Rennes 2)

Julie Belz (Penn St. University)

Mark Warschauer (University of California, Irvine)

Martin Earys (Freelance Consultant,UK)

Robert Godwin-Jones (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Tom's page (Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kyoto Sangyo University)

Vance Stevens (Our WIA Coordinator)

 

CALL Associations

CALICO

CALL-Austria

EUROCall (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning)

IALLT (The International Association for Language Learning Technology)

J-LET (Tha Japan Association of Languages Education and Technology)

PaCall ( Pacific Computer Assisted Language Learning)

TESOL SIG Computers

IATEFL CompSIG

The Association for Computational linguistics

 

CALL Publications

Name
Some comments
Not exactly CALL, but a part of it.
One of the best and most serious publications on this topic for free
"..is a fully-refereed journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of EUROCALL. It is issued twice a year in May and in November and is also available online to subscribers. The May issue normally contains selected papers from the previous year’s EUROCALL conference..."
'...CHORUS is an international "meta-resource" exploring and supporting the use of new media in the arts and humanities...'

 

CALL software and other stuff

Radio and Business English
The typical game to play to learn voc, now online.
New authoring tool for creating quizzes
   

 

Voice Recognition

Forums and lists on CALL

CALICO-L, "an e-mail discussion list is an open forum of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium"

COMPUTER-ASSISTED-LEARNING, Sharing ideas and practice in CAL

Neteach-L ( "an on-line forum through which international EFL/ESL teachers can discuss issues related to using technology as an educational tool")

IATEFL-CompSIG (A Yahoo group with plenty of teachers from different field and things to share)

WELL,Web Enhanced Language Learning

 

Events

Name
Place
Date
EUROCALL (past)
Limerick, Ireland
3-6 Sept'03
ALT-C 2003 (past)
Sheffield, UK
8-10 Sept'03
Çanakkale, TURKIYE
24-26 September, 2003
Internet
November'2003
Internet
March 5- April 4' 2003

 
Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
17 - 20 March 2004
Hawaii, July 27-30, 2004
27-30th July, 2004
University of Viena, Austria
1-4 Sept 2004
University of Antwerp, Belgium

5-7 September 2004
Medellín, Colombia
28-29 October 2004
Michigan State University, EEUU
May 17 - 21, 2005
FLEAT 5 (past)
Brigham Young University,Utah, EEUU
5 August 2005
Cracow, Poland
24-27 August 2005
PaCall2005 (past)
Yunnan, China
1-3 December 2005
Granada, Spain
4-7 Sept-2006
Callico 2007 (Call for papers Oct 31st) (past)
Texas, US
22-24 May-2007
Northern Ireland
5-8 Sept -2007

COSELLO, Conference on Open Source in Education and Language Learning Online

Special Theme: The problem of language learning online – Is Moodle the answer?

University of Iceland, Reykjavík , Iceland
28-29 Sept 2007
Berlin, Germany
16-18 Nov 2007
CALICO 2008 (Call for papers Oct 31st)
San Francisco, EEUU
18-22 March 2008
Fukuoka, Japan
5–8 August 2008

* More Call events... EuroCALL)

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