CALL, Culture and the Language Curriculum

A consensus seems to exist on the following. In foreign language acquisition methodology sound methods and efficient tools have been developed until now in order to allow the learner to master and put into practice grammar, basic vocabulary and frequent communicative rules. Within this area Computer...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Calvi, Licia (Editor), Geerts, Walter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Invited contributions
  • Keith Cameron: “C.A.L.L., Culture and the Language Curriculum: An Important Issue?”
  • Nina Garrett: “Rubrics for Teaching Culture. Implications for CALL”
  • CALL and the Study of Culture
  • Ronald Soetaert and Rob Van Kranenburg: “Cultural Studies in Language Teaching. Culture and Language in a Network”
  • Marie J. Myers: “Facilitating Socio-centered Learning with Possible Computer Applications”
  • The Language Tutor
  • Patrick Boylan and Alessandro Micarelli: “Learning Languages as “Culture” with CALL”
  • Antonio Borraccino: “Feedback on Steroids”
  • Tandem Learning
  • Tim Lewis and Ursula Stickler: “Intercultural Learning on the Internet. Some Uses of Networked Computing in Preparing for Study Abroad”
  • Elke St. John: “Teaching, Typing, Talking. Two Case Studies”
  • CALL: Case Studies on Phonology and Linguistics
  • Anne King and Rob Procter: “‘Click and Listen’: A Case Study of the Development of a CALL Package”
  • Chris Gledhill: “Learning a ‘Genre’ as Opposed to Learning ‘French’. What can Corpus Linguistics tell us?”
  • CALL: Focus on Business Languages
  • Valérie Gauthier: “Cross-Cultural Language Teaching with Multimedia Tools”
  • Marie-Thérèse Claes: “Multimedia Learning: Implications for Language as a Medium”
  • Author Index