30th October - 2nd November 2012
General program
Introductions, CALL and Task Design
Tuesday, October 30th
- Discussion about local teaching contexts, university and student resources
- Brief history and introduction to CALL, blended approaches to language learning
- Task design and CALL
- Afternoon workshop - Developing the four language skills through CALL
Suggested readings:
Warschauer M. (1996) "Computer Assisted Language Learning: an Introduction" [Download]
Reinhardt, J., & Thorne, S. L. (2007). SCMC, Blogs, and Wikis. The Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. [Download]
Language, Culture and CALL
Wednesday, October 31st
- Language, Culture and CALL
- Culture and English as a Lingua Franca
- Afternoon workshop - Designing tasks for teaching Culture through CALL
Suggested readings:
Guth, S. and Helm, F. (2011) Teaching Culture through CALL. In N. Arnold and L. Ducate Present and future promises of CALL: From theory and research to new directions in language teaching, pp. 211-256. San Marcos, TX: CALICO Publications.
Thorne, S. and Reinhardt, J. (2008) "Bridging Activities," New Media Literacies, and Advanced Foreign Language Proficiency. Calico Journal, 25(3): 558-572. [Download]
Dooly, M. (2005) The Internet and language teaching: A sure way to interculturality? ESL Magazine, 44: 8-12. [Download]
CMC and foreign language learning
Thursday, November 1st
- CMC and foreign language learning
- New online literacies
- Approaches to research and teaching through CMC
- Afternoon workshop - Designing CMC activities
Suggested readings:
Kern, R., Ware, P., & Warschauer, M. (2008). Network-based language teaching. In N. V. Deusen-Scholl & N. H. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language and education, 2nd Edition, Vol. 4: Second and foreign language education (pp. 281-292). New York: Springer.[Download]
Guarda M. (2012), Computer-Mediated-Communication and Foreign Language Education, Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, v.8, n.3, 15-27. [Download]
Online Intercultural Exchange
Friday, November 2nd
- Intercultural Communicative Competence
- Different models of online intercultural exchange
- Afternoon workshop - Laying out design for online intercultural exchange between Padova and Adama universities (only for educators interested in setting up this form of exchange)
Suggested readings:
Guth, S. and Helm, F. (2010) Introduction. In S. Guth and F. Helm (eds.) Telecollaboration 2.0: Language, Literacy and Intercultural Learning in the 21st Century, pp. 13-38. Bern: Peter Lang.
Thorne, S. L., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Internet-Mediated Text and Multi-Modal Expression in Foreign Language Education . (CALPER Working Papers Series, No. 5.) The Pennsylvania State University: Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. [Download]
Helm, F., Guth, S., and O'Dowd, R. (2012) University Language Classes Collaborating Online: A Report on the Integration of Telecollaborative Networks in European Universities. White paper. [Download]
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