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Plenary Session #1
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| Supyan Hussin, National University of Malaysia
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Supyan Hussin is an Associate Professor in Language Education and Technology at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, National University of Malaysia (UKM). He has been involved in teacher training in TESL and English Language Studies programs since 1993. He teaches educational technology related courses including CALL, web-based learning, and multimedia English. Currently, he is the Head of E-Community Research Centre, UKM, and an Associate Fellow (e-learning) at the Centre for Academic Advancement, UKM. He served the Institute of the Malay World and Civilization UKM as a Senior Fellow for ten years during which he actively involved in the development of the Malay Word Studies Portal. He is now the Deputy President of Malaysian Mobile Learning Association.
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Local Content, Local Taste of CALL
After more than 40 years, CALL is still surviving in the midst of rapid changes in computer technology. However, what makes it stay alive in language classes worldwide is not only the interactive features and individualized instruction that it provides, but also the local content and local taste it carries. This paper describes the development of CALL software by pre-service and in-service teachers for the past twenty years at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). The packages are customized for specific groups of learners, and are designed for local people in Malaysia. Therefore, the names of people, places, stories, customs, jokes, anecdotes, and proverbs used in these CALL packages are based on local cultures and traditions. Students may find local flavour and local taste in CALL packages more meaningful to them. When integrated into web pages and blogs, CALL remains relevant to teachers and learners at local level in the globalization era.
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Plenary Session #2
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| Leslie Opp-Beckman, University of Oregon, USA
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Leslie Opp-Beckman is on faculty at the University of Oregon's Linguistics Department and American English Institute in Eugene, Oregon where she develops and teaches a combination of face-to-face and online distance education courses. She has published, lectured and conducted professional training workshops in the area of computer assisted language learning (CALL) for English language educators extensively across the United States and internationally in more than 50 countries. Some of her key projects include the video-based teacher training materials “Shaping the Way We Teach English," contributions to the text “CALL Environments,” and program development for the “E-Teacher Scholarship Program” which serves more than 500 online educators each year.
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E-Teachers, E-Presence, and E-Volving Practices
Roles for educators, developers and learners continue to evolve in online environments. Setting the stage for effective online distance education requires careful advance needs analysis, planning, and ongoing assessment for all participant, instructional, and administrative 'roles'. This session will look at some of the ways in which course administration, best practices (as derived from 15+ years of online course development and research), and assessment can form useful measures for determining the degree to which online learning is effective. In addition, a look ahead to ways in which an individual's 'e-presence' in whatever role he/she plays.
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Plenary Speaker #3
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| Jozef Colpaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Jozef Colpaert teaches Instructional Design, CALL and Educational Technology at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), in the educational master and in teacher training. He is vice-chairman of the Institute for Education and Information Sciences, and director R&D of LINGUAPOLIS, the Language Institute of the University of Antwerp. He is editor-in-chief of Computer Assisted Language Learning, an International Journal (Taylor and Francis), and organizes the biennial Antwerp CALL Research Conferences. He has been designing and developing language courseware and learning environments for 25 years, gradually turning this activity into a respected research activity, while expanding his horizon to research topics such as motivation theory, speech recognition, mother tongue literacy and body language. He is a strong advocate of educational engineering as a research method.
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Designing for Motivation in CALL: What Do Language Learners Have in Common?
The role of technology depends on the extent to which it contributes to the creation of a powerful language learning environment. A methodological and conceptual design framework is needed for realizing the goals of both language learners and teachers. In case of problematic motivation, instructional designers and practitioners should first focus on personal goals, and only afterwards on pedagogical goals. While pedagogical goals are mostly detailed, well documented, and easy to find, personal goals are difficult to elicit, to identify and to formulate. In this presentation, I will present my design framework which includes a specific goal elicitation technique and then provide examples of several research projects. I will explain to what extent these personal goals are strictly individual, local or global, on the basis of indications which can be situated somewhere between Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan) and the L2 SELF model (Dörnyei & Ushioda).
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| Plenary Session #4
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| Jeong-Bae Son, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
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Jeong-Bae Son, Ph.D., teaches Applied Linguistics & TESOL courses and supervises EdD and PhD students in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His areas of specialisation are computer-assisted language learning, language teacher education and e-literacy. His edited books include Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Concepts, Contexts and Practices (2004), Enhancing Learning and Teaching: Pedagogy, Technology and Language (2005) and Internet-Based Language Learning: Pedagogies and Technologies (2009). He is currently the President of the Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (APACALL), Co-Chair of the GLoCALL Conference, Editor of the APACALL Book Series, Co-Editor of the International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning and Co-Editor of CALL-EJ.
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Online Tools for Language Teaching: 5W1H
With the wide-spread use of the Internet in education, the number of online tools has rapidly increased in recent years and, as a result, a large number of online learning and teaching tools are currently available for use in the area of second/foreign language education. In view of the need for CALL researchers and practitioners to find, choose, use and evaluate those tools for further development and implementation of CALL, this talk explores online language teaching tools, while asking and responding to 5W1H questions, and presents a list of categorized online tools. It suggests that CALL research and practice can be improved by attempting to answer the elemental questions related to the use of the online tools in CALL contexts.
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