Review by Pia Sundqvist, Karlstads Universitet Technology-mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks, edited by Marta González-Lloret and Lourdes Ortega, presents a new framework in which tasks and technology are integrated in the language curriculum. Although Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) have been around for some time, the integration ...

ALLES is a new project on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) for advanced learners of English, German, Spanish and Catalan in the domain of business and economy. NLP tools and techniques will play an important role in ALLES for evaluating user ́s oral and written production as well as for gathering and tailoring teaching materials.

We consider the applicability of time-scaling for Computer Assisted Language Learning Applications (CALL) and present an efficient algorithm for non-uniform time-scaling. Formal listening tests show a general preference for this non-uniform time-scaling and indicate a dependence of this preference on such factors as the length of the utterance and the desired amount of time-scaling.

This entry provides a thorough introduction to computer-assisted and -aided language learning (CALL). It starts by providing the definition and history of CALL and associated relevant terms. Then, an existing CALL methodological framework is presented and discussed. This is then followed by an overview of the current state of CALL by citing some representative examples of its uses and discussin...

Luke Plonsky, University College London Nicole Ziegler, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa The relationship between computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and second language acquisition (SLA) has been studied both extensively, covering numerous subdomains, and intensively, resulting in hundreds of primary studies. It is therefore no surprise that CALL researchers, as in other areas of applied ...

This study aimed to investigate the perceptions of EFL Taiwanese university students on a collaborative CALL environment. The participants were 112 intermediate proficiency English as a foreign language Taiwanese third-year university students. The dataset used included the pre-and post-questionnaires on participants’ perspectives on the CALL environment. In addition, interview data was collect...

Features Bridging the Gap: Delivering Distance Education Courses on the Web —Peter Golz 17 Computer Assisted Writing in CALL—Chiaki Iwai 25 Creating Web-Based Soap Operas for Learning English—Ken Koebke 35 Multimedia in Language Instruction: Challenges and Solutions —Jörg Roche 45 Teaching the Previous fin de stiele w i t h the Help of Current fin de siMe Technology—Gary Smith 53 Accessible Aut...