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Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR).
CLEAR's mission is to promote the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States. Projects focus on materials development, professional development training, and foreign language re . . .

University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC).(NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS)
The University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center engages in research and materials development projects and conducts Summer Institutes for language professionals among its many ac . . .

Bots as language learning tools.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES)
ABSTRACT Foreign Language Learning (FLL) students commonly have few opportunities to use their target language. Teachers in FLL situations do their best to create opportunities during classes thro . . .

Foreign Language Teachers' greatest hits.(ON THE NET)(Foreign Language Teaching Forum)
INTRODUCTION The World Wide Web is very much a part of many people's everyday lives now, whether it be for personal or professional reasons. The Foreign Language Teaching Forum (FLTEACH) was inaug . . .

From the editors.
It is our pleasure to introduce Volume 10, Number 3 of Language Learning & Technology, a regular issue of our journal. We hope all of you had a restful and productive summer and are ready to meet th . . .

Exploring the relationship between electronic literacy and heritage language maintenance.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the electronic literacy practices of two Korean-American heritage language learners who manage Korean weblogs. Online users deliberately alter standard forms of writ . . .

Playing the videotext: a media literacy perspective on video-mediated L2 listening.
ABSTRACT Adopting a literacy perspective towards student interactions with digital media can extend and develop views of second language (L2) listening comprehension. In this case study, variation . . .

Mode, meaning, and synaesthesia in multimedia L2 writing.
ABSTRACT This study of digital storytelling attempts to apply Kress's (2003) notions of synaesthesia, transformation, and transduction to the analysis of four undergraduate L2 writers' multimedia . . .

The development of e-mail literacy: from writing to peers to writing to authority figures.
ABSTRACT Though e-mail has become a common interpersonal communication medium, it does not mean that this medium is used without difficulty. While people can write e-mails to peers in any manner t . . .

Review of Beginner's Chinese and Intermediate Chinese.(Book review)
Beginner's Chinese with Two Audio CDs Yong Ho 1997 ISBN 0-7818-1095-7 US $25 188 pp. Hippocrene Books, Inc. New York, USA Intermediate Chinese with Two Audio CDs Yong Ho 2004 I . . .

Review of Literacy in the New Media Age.(Book review)
Literacy in the New Media Age Gunther Kress 2003 ISBN 0-415-25356-X US $31.95 (paperback); $105.00 (hardback) 208 pp. Routledge New York, USA That much of the writing we encounter da . . .

Review of Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States.(Book review)
Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the Unites States Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher 2004 ISBN 0-8508-4314-0 US $32.50 259 pp. Lawrence Erlbaum As . . .

News from sponsoring organizations.
Sponsors University of Hawai'I National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) Co-Sponsor Center for Applied Ling . . .

Emerging technologies: tag clouds in the blogosphere: electronic literacy and social networking.
Electronic literacy today is a moving target. How and why we read and write online are evolving at the fast pace of Internet time. One of the most striking developments in the past few years has bee . . .

On the net: Wikipedia: a multilingual treasure trove.
INTRODUCTION Encyclopedias are excellent sources of basic introductory information on historical and cultural topics for foreign language (FL) students. The articles in these reference works do no . . .

From the special issue editor.(language learning, electronic literacy)(Editorial)
It is my pleasure to introduce this special issue of LLT on electronic literacy. The contributing authors take on the large and challenging questions that new forms of electronic communication provo . . .

From the editors.(electronic literacy, language learning)(Editorial)
Welcome to Volume 10, Number 2 of Language Learning & Technology, a special issue on electronic literacy. We are very grateful to Carla Meskill who has done an outstanding job of guest editing this . . .

Integrating corpus consultation in language studies.
ABSTRACT Alongside developments in language research, the potential of corpora as a resource in language learning and teaching has been evident to researchers and teachers since the late 1960s. De . . .

Expanding academic vocabulary with an interactive on-line database.
ABSTRACT University students used a set of existing and purpose-built on-line tools for vocabulary learning in an experimental ESL course. The resources included concordance, dictionary, cloze-bui . . .

"Missed" communication in online communication: tensions in a German-American telecollaboration.
This qualitative study explores the factors that contributed to limited interactional involvement in a telecollaborative project linking two groups of participants: 12 advanced-level students of Eng . . .

Rapport-building through call in teaching Chinese as a foreign language: an exploratory study.
ABSTRACT Technological advances have brought about the ever-increasing utilisation of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) media in the learning of a second language (L2). Computer-mediated . . .

Communication topics and strategies in e-mail consultation: comparison between American and international university students.
ABSTRACT On today's "wired" college campuses, students avail themselves in increasing numbers of electronic channels, most notably e-mail, as a means to consult with their professors. While some r . . .

Are you ready to "Moodle"?
INTRODUCTION With the rapidly increasing popularity of the Internet in recent years, the delivery of learning programs has gradually shifted from local desktop to online-based applications. While . . .

News from sponsoring organizations.
Sponsors University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) Co-Sponsor Center for Applied Ling . . .

Ajax and Firefox: new Web applications and browsers.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES)
Five years ago (May, 2000), this column dealt with "Web Browser Trends and Technologies." Ten years ago marks the arrival of several major Web players including Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon. It was also . . .

Vocabulary support for independent online reading.(ON THE NET)
Frequent reading practice is one of the best ways to develop vocabulary and improve reading comprehension. Extensive reading (reading large amounts of text without worrying too much about details or . . .

From the editors.(Editorial)
Welcome to Volume 9, Number 2, a regular issue of Language Learning & Technology. In this issue, we bring you five articles. In "Communication Topics and Strategies in E-mail Consultation: Compari . . .

Commentary: you're not studying, you're just ...
ABSTRACT As often as language teachers lecture about the importance of continual practice to adolescent learners, the dullness of homework exercises designed primarily to be educational has diffic . . .

The design of effective ICT-supported learning activities: exemplary models, changing requirements, and new possibilities.(Infor
ABSTRACT Despite the imperatives of policy and rhetoric about their integration in formal education, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are often used as an "add-on" in many classro . . .

Triadic scaffolds: tools for teaching English language learners with computers (1).
ABSTRACT Active communication with others is key to human learning. This straightforward premise currently undergirds much theory and research in student learning in general, and in second languag . . .

Child-to-child interaction and corrective feedback in a computer mediated L2 class.
ABSTRACT The current study examined the provision of corrective feedback and learner repair following feedback in the interactional context of child-to-child conversations, particularly computer m . . .

Review of Internet for English Teaching.(Book Review)
Internet for English Teaching Mark Warschauer, Heidi Shetzer, & Christine Meloni 2000 ISBN 0-939791-88-9 178 + ix pp. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. 700 South W . . .

Review of Technology and Teaching English Language Learners.(Book Review)
Technology and Teaching English Language Learners Mary Ellen Butler-Pascoe & Karin M. Wiburg 2003 ISBN 0-205-32677-3 US $38.80 246 pp. Allyn and Bacon / Pearson Boston, Massachusetts, . . .

News from sponsoring organizations.
Sponsors University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) University of Hawai'i National For . . .

Emerging technologies: messaging, gaming, peer-to-peer sharing: language learning strategies & tools for the millennial generati
Marc Prensky likes to characterize the members of the millennial generation as "Digital Natives," for whom the Internet and new forms of digital communication are second nature, in contrast to the o . . .

On the net: lets go to the zoo! Sites for young language learners.
While the debate over the optimal age for second language (L2) acquisition continues into the 21st century--that is, whether or not there is a clearly established critical period beyond which L2 lea . . .

From the special issue editors.(Editorial)
The papers published in this issue of Language Learning and Technology are indicative of current research and exploratory intervention work dealing with the use of new technologies in language learn . . .

From the editors.
Happy New Year! Welcome to our special issue on Technology and Young Learners, a theme that runs throughout the articles, commentary, and columns of this issue. Special thanks go to Michele Knobel . . .

Call for papers for special issue of LLT.
Theme: Electronic Literacy This special issue of Language Learning & Technology will examine the many issues related to electronic literacy, especially as it applies to second language learning. W . . .

Testing L2 vocabulary recognition and recall using pictorial and written test items.
ABSTRACT This article describes two studies that examined the effects of pictorial and written annotations on second language (L2) vocabulary learning from a multimedia environment. In both studie . . .

Supporting synchronous distance language learning with desktop videoconferencing.
ABSTRACT This study involves three dimensions: distance language education (DLE) as the context, videoconferencing as the technology, and the provision of synchronous oral and visual interaction i . . .

The Internet as a glocal discourse environment; a commentary on "Second Language Socialization in a Bilingual Chat Room" by Wan
ABSTRACT The Internet as a worldwide literacy practice environment has created a new situation in communication, providing a new dynamic field for research. On the basis of the two articles under . . .

Second language cyber rhetoric: a study of Chinese L2 writers in an online Usenet group.
ABSTRACT It has been argued that the expectations of traditional L2 writing classroom can be problematic for Chinese students, particularly in the area of argumentation and critical thinking. On t . . .

Second language socialization in a bilingual chat room: global and local considerations.
ABSTRACT This paper considers how global practices of English on the Internet intersect with local practices of English in the territorial or national sphere in constructing the language experienc . . .

Review of Live Action Spanish Interactive.
REVIEW OF LIVE ACTION SPANISH INTERACTIVE Title Live Action Spanish Interactive: TPR on a Computer (2004) Platforms PC Win95/98/NT/200/ME/XP . . .

Review of La Chaise Bercante.(Audiovisual Review)
REVIEW OF LA CHAISE BERCANTE Title La Chaise Bercante (The Rocking Chair; 2001-2002) Platforms PC/Mac System Windows 95 or higher; 200 MHz; 64MB RAM; 8X CD-ROM requi . . .

Review of Tell Me More Spanish.
REVIEW OF TELL ME MORE SPANISH Title Tell Me More Spanish Platforms PC or compatible; Windows 95/98, NT4, Millennium, 2000 o XP (Windows 95 and NT4 need Microsoft Inter . . .

News from sponsoring organizations.
Sponsors University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) Co-Sponsors Apprentissage des Langu . . .

Emerging technologies: language in action: from webquests to virtual realities.
English is the lingua franca of the Internet and as a consequence the World Wide Web offers a rich bounty for ESL and EFL teachers and learners. It also represents a vast repository of misinformatio . . .

On the net: virtual museums on the web: El Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Museums and Culture Big "C" culture is en essential component of the foreign language classroom in so far as it helps students better understand what is important to native speakers from their cul . . .