1. May 1

2. Housekeeping
Test 3 opens Saturday, closes Wed @midnight
Portfolios due tonight (check your links!)
Post it in your blog
Questions about Teaching Philosophy?

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4. Egbert et al, 2011
What do we know?
Learners respond positively
Teachers worry about CALL replacing jobs
Mixed findings for effectiveness (unclear)
Not much research in iCALL

5. Steel & Levy, 2011
"Language students and their technologies:
Charting the evolution 2006–2011" ReCALL

6. Benefits/Components of CALL
A. What tools this semester realize one or more
of these benefits? (Warschauer & Healey,
1998).
B. What tools this semester realize the eight
components listed on p.5 (Warschauer, 1996;
Egbert, 2005; Egbert & Hanson-Smith, 2007)?
All: Are there other language learning
benefits/components that you have seen NOT
listed here?

7. Benefits (Warschauer & Healey, 1998)
1. Multimodal practice with feedback
2. Individualization in a large class
3. Pair and small group work on projects, either
collaboratively or competitively
4. The fun factor
5. Variety in the resources available and learning styles
used
6. Exploratory learning with large amounts of language
data
7. Real-life skill-building in computer use.
Others?

8. Components (Warschauer, 1996; Egbert,
2005; Egbert & Hanson-Smith, 2007)
1. Learners have opportunities to interact and negotiate
meaning;
2. Learners interact in the target language with an authentic
audience;
3. Learners are involved in authentic tasks;
4. Learners are exposed to and encouraged to produce varied
and creative language;
5. Learners have enough time and feedback;
6. Learners are guided to attend mindfully to
the learning process;
7. Learners work in an atmosphere with an
ideal stress/anxiety level; and
8. Learner autonomy is supported.
Others?

9. future of
technology & learning

10. The (near) future
technology & learning
(caveat: I really have no idea)
1. Mobile devices ubiquitous
2. Changing definitions of language
competency (literacy)
3. Web-based applications & collaboration
4. Hybridization of education (driven by a
variety of stakeholders)

11. EAP/ESP & Technological Literacy
What technologies are university students
expected to be literate in?
What technologies are professionals expected
to be literate in?

15. Adopting CALL in your teaching