CALL for Background

The volume discusses multiple ways in which CALL can develop and support background issues in language education, including work with mature learners, civic education, ICT affordances for ESP, professional translator training, crowdsourcing opportunities, resources, metacompetence, blended-learning and linguistic issues in online exchanges.

The volume discusses a multitude of ways in which CALL can serve to develop and support broadly conceived issues-of background in language education. The individual chapters explore a number of areas in which CALL techniques and tools enhance language instruction. The issues reported on comprise working with mature language learners, developing civic education, ICT affordances for ESP, professional training for translators, interpreters and crowdsourcing opportunities. Other contributions center around CALL-related resources, CAPT metacompetence and blended-learning paradigms as well as exploring cultural and linguistic issues in online exchanges.

Autorentext

Anna Turula is Professor in the Department of Technology Enhanced Language Education at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. Her research interests include CALL, cognitive and affective domains in language learning and civic literacy. Anita Buczek-Zawi a is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Linguistics at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. Her research interests cover CAPT, sound systems interactions and language prosody.

Inhalt

Background in language instruction - ICT affordances - ESP - telecollaboration - metacompetence - blended-learning - translation competence - translation services - glottogeragogics - implicit crowdsourcing - civic education - CAPT - language learning