Computer Assisted Language Learning
October 2005 Volume 18, Number 4
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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Cognitive Processes at Work in CALL
Jane Vinther
The seminal work by Ericsson and Simon established verbal reports as a genuine way to get a glimpse into the "black box" of the workings of the human mind, and it is now recognised as a method of... More
pp. 251-271
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A Software Development Approach for Computer Assisted Language Learning
Steve Cushion
Over the last 5 years we have developed, produced, tested, and evaluated an authoring software package to produce web-based, interactive, audio-enhanced language-learning material. That authoring... More
pp. 273-286
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ESL Students' Use of Concordance in the Transfer of Academic Word Knowledge: An Exploratory Study
Jagdish Kaur & Volker Hegelheimer
Concordancing in the classroom is fairly a new approach that has emerged with the use of corpora in language learning. In a concordance, language is presented in an authentic context; learners are ... More
pp. 287-310
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New Skills for New Classrooms: Training Tutors to Teach Languages Online
Regine Hampel & Ursula Stickler
While online teaching in post-compulsory education is the focus of much research today, the training of online tutors has largely been neglected. Most papers do not go beyond dealing with the... More
pp. 311-326
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Learning Electronic Literacy Skills in an Online Language Learning Community
James Simpson
This paper is about the learning that happens in the synchronous text chat forum of on online group of English Language learners and tutors. It is a socioculturally oriented case study of an... More
pp. 327-345