IALLT's free language technology magazine
Nick Einterz, Lecturer at the International English Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. The word “compliance” can have a negative connotation. Often, in many professions the word is a dreaded symbol of bureaucracy and additional work. Further, as
Read More
By Alison Hicks, Romance Languages, Literatures and Cultures Librarian , University of Colorado, Boulder What do you think of when you hear the word librarian? I’m not much of a betting person but even I would feel pretty safe
Read More
By Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor at Rhodes College and President – Elect of IALLT (International Association for Language Learning Technology). “Creating spaces wherein diverse sorts of people can interact is a leitmotif of the modern world” (Gee, 2004, p.
Read More
By Georges Detiveaux, Adjunct Instructor of French, Lone Star College-CyFair & Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Houston-Downtown. INTRODUCTION I teach French at Lone Star College-CyFair, a community college with just over 20,000 students
Read More
By Senta Goertler, PhD, Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and German, Michigan State University. INTRODUCTION “When I lived abroad, I couldn’t even call my parents let alone Skype or FaceTime with them. I had to send them
Read More
Chesla Ann Bohinski, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Binghamton University, NY, USA. Salvador Venegas Escobar, M.A, Associate Profesor, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. Thanks to the advances of technology, teachers of all disciplines have the ability to utilize a vast array
Read More
By Sabine Levet, Senior Lecturer in French, Global Studies and Languages, MIT One of the increasingly central tasks of language instructors is to prepare their students to work and interact with people from different cultures. Teaching culture is
Read More
By Dr. Carolin Fuchs, Teachers College, Columbia University. This contribution describes the potential of two tools, namely needs analysis questionnaires and telecollaboration log entries, for helping participants reflect actively on past and current telecollaborative practices. WHAT IS
Read More
By Patricia Mosele, PhD, Lecturer of French at the University of Colorado Boulder. INTRODUCTION Many language teachers recognize that beginning classroom learners struggle significantly when asked to apply strategies for interacting successfully with peers to actual authentic speaking
Read More
By Jean M. Janecki, PhD; Language Resource Center Director, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. VIDEO CONFERENCING IN THE WORLD LANGUAGE CLASSROOM In the foreign language field, instructors and technologists have new tools and programs with wonderful potential to teach, advance,
Read More
Marie Schein, PhD, SOCALLT President and French Instructor at Texas Christian University. Nancy Guilloteau, PhD, SOCALLT President Elect and Language Program Director of Lower Division French at the University of Texas. Georges Detiveaux, Immediate Past President of SOCALLT and Assistant Director, Center
Read More
By Dr. Thomas Plagwitz, Charlotte, NC. LOOK AGAIN Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), “to convert speech into a sequence of words by a computer program” (Huang 2010, 339), is back in the limelight [1], thanks to Siri &
Read More
By Nicola Work, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of French, Department of Global Languages and Cultures, University of Dayton. INTRODUCTION With the growing interest in using iPads for teaching, the inclusion of technology as part of the 21st century skills,
Read More
Russell Moon, Career Track Instructor at University of Oregon. Nick Einterz, Lecturer at the International English Center, University of Colorado-Boulder. At the University of Colorado Boulder’s International English Center (IEC), students from all over the world develop their English proficiency
Read More