Technology, Mediation, and Second Language Acquisition: Research and Praxis

[TIFLE] APLNG/CMLIT/FR/GER/SPAN 589

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Week & Date
Topics and Readings
Activities and Notes
W1: 1/13

Introductions, overview of the course, themes and possibilities

Background: The History of the Internet

  1. Internet History. Excerpt from Imagining the Internet (forthcoming). Elon University/Pew Internet and American Life Project
  2. "What is" the Internet from whatis.com:
  3. Presky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants-- a New Way To Look At Ourselves and Our Kids. Available at:
  4. Rheingold, Howard. (1993). The Virtual Community. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Fun reading, background to the development of the internet
W2: 1/20

Perspectives: Technology Use in Language Education

  1. Kern, R. & Warschauer, M. (2000). Theory and practice of network-based language teaching. In M. Warschauer & R. Kern (Eds.), Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.
  2. Warschauer, M. (1997).Computer-mediated collaborative learning: Theory and practice. Modern Language Journal, 81(3), p. 470-481.
  3. Thorne, S. (2004). Cultural historical activity theory and the object of innovation To appear in New Insights into Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Oliver St. John, Kees van Esch, & Eus Schalkwijk (Eds). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt.(Germany).

Additional reading:

  1. Thorne, S. (1999).Chapter 3: Educational and foreign/second language uses of computer-mediation: A review of research. In: An activity theoretical analysis of foreign language electronic discourse. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
  2. Warschauer, M., & Healey, D. (1998). Computers and language learning: An overview. Language Teaching, 31, 57-71.

Curious about Internet usage by language? Internet and languages

 

Questions about the Internet? About various sorts of Internet communication tools? About on-line lingo and terminology? Visit our course Technology Topics and Technology Tools and Resources pages.
W3: 1/27

Emerging Pedagogies and Technology use in Foreign Language Education

  1. Kern, R., Ware, P. D., & Warschauer, M. (2004). Crossing Frontiers: New Directions in Online Pedagogy and Research. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 24, 243-260.
    • In reader
  2. Warshauer, M. (2004). Technological Change and the Future of CALL. In S. Fotos and C. Browne (eds.), New Perspectives on CALL for Second Langauge Classrooms (pp. 15-25).Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
    • In reader
  3. Goodwin-Jones, R. (2005). Messaging, Gaming, Peer-to-Peer Sharing: Language Learning Strategies & Tools for the Millennial Generation. Language Learning & Technology 9/1: 17-22.
  4. Goodwin-Jones, B. (2003). Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration. Language Learning & Technology 7/2:12-16.
  5. Pew Internet & American Life Project. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools. [Review the summary of findings, + anything else that interests you]
  6. The Future of the Internet. Pew Internet & American Life Project. January 9th, 2005. [Review the summary of findings, + anything else that interests you]

Addtional reading:

  1. Glossary of CALL terms. In S. Fotos and C. Browne (eds.), New Perspectives on CALL for Second Langauge Classrooms (pp. 317-326). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
    • In reader

To access our course wiki site, go to the TechiWiki homepage

W4: 2/2 or 2/3?

Perspectives: Information Ecologies; Anti-Virtuality; Cultures of Use

  1. Lam, E., Kramsch, C. (2002). The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment. In J. Leather and J. Van Dam (eds.), Ecology of language acquisition. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    • In reader
  2. Nardi, Bonnie, & O'Day, Vicki. (1999). Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. Read Chapters 2 & 4.
  3. Miller, Daniel, and Slater, Don. (2000). The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. New York: Berg Publishers. Read "Summary of Findings" and "Chapter 1".
  4. Thorne, S. (2000). Beyond Bounded Activity Systems: Heterogeneous Cultures in Instructional Uses of Persistent Conversation. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD-ROM), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA., 2000.

Additional Reading:

  1. Rheingold, H. (1999). Look who's talking: The Amish are famous for shunning technology. But their secret love affair with the cell phone is causing an uproar. WIRED, Archive 7.01, January 1999.

 

Fingers on the pulse of the field? See CALICO's statement on the state of the state of the art in technology and foreign language education (very short!):

Scholarly Activities in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Development, Pedagogical Innovations, and Research.

 

W5: 2/10

The Dialectic of Technology and Language; Technology and Literacy

  1. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapters 4 & 5: In reader
  2. Thorne, S. (2003). Review of Language and the Internet (David Crystal): The Biggest Language Revolution Ever Meets Applied Linguistics in the 21st Century. Language Learning & Technology 7/2: 24-27.
  3. Kern, R. (2000). Chapter 8: Computers, language, and literacy. In Kern, Literacy and Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 223-266.
    • In reader
  4. Yates, S. (1996). Oral and written aspects of computer conferencing. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
    • In reader

Additional Reading:

  1. Bregman, A, & Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Radicals of Presentation in Persistent Conversation. Published in the Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference On System Sciences, January 3-6, 2001, Maui, Hawaii.
  2. Herring, Susan. (1996). Two variants of an electronic message schema. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  3. Salomon, G. (1991). On the Cognitive Effects of Technology. In L.T. Landsmann (ed.), Culture, Schooling, and Psychological Development. Norwood: Ablex Publishing, 185-204.
    • In reader

Click here for an introduction to the ideas of MAK Halliday and Systemic-Functional Linguistics

English as a Global Language, a chat session with David Crystal.

 

  • Internet use project due
W6: 2/17

Framing Technology and Critical Applied Linguistics

  1. Hanna, B., de Nooy, J. (2003). A funny thing happened on the way to the forum: Electronic discussion and foreign language learning. LL&T 7/1: 71-85.
  2. Murray, D. (2000). Protean Communication: The Language of Computer-mediated Communication. TESOL Quarterly 34/3:397-421.
    • In reader
  3. Chapelle, C. (2004). Chapter 3: Evaluating Language Learning. In English language learning and technology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    • In reader

Theory

  1. Pennycook, A. (2001). Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    • Chapters 2 (The Politics of Knowledge) and 5 (The Politics of Pedagogy): In reader

Additional Reading (oldies and pretty goodies):

  1. Lafford, P., Lafford, B. (1997). Learning language and culture with Internet technologies. In M. Bush (ed.) and R. Terry (Associate ed.), Technology enhanced language learning. Lincolnwood, Ill.: National Textbook Company.
    • In reader
  2. Knobel, M., Lankshear, C., Honan, E., Crawford, J. (1998). The wired world of second- language education. In I. Snyder (ed.), Page to screen: Taking literacy into the electronic era. New York: Routledge.
    • In reader
  3. Duin, A.H., & Hansen, C. (1994) Reading and writing on computer networks as social construction and social interaction. In C. Selfe & D. Hilligoss (eds.), Literacy and computers: The complications of teaching and learning with technology. New York: The Modern Language Association.
    • In reader
  4. Bernhardt, E., Kamil, M. (1998). Enhancing foreign culture learning through electronic discussion. In Judith A. Muyskens (ed.), New ways of learning and teaching: Focus on technology and foreign language education. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.
  5. Sullivan, N., & Pratt, E. (1996). A comparative study of two ESL writing environments: A computer-assisted classroom and a traditional oral classroom. System 29: 491-501.

Thousands of On-line Newspapers!
W7: 2/24

Synchronous CMC and Language Education

  1. Herring, Susan. (1999). Interactional coherence in CMC. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4 (4) June 1999.
  2. Kern, R. G. (1995). Restructuring classroom interaction with networked computers: Effects on Quantity and Characteristics of Language Production. Modern Language Journal 79/4:457-476.
    • In reader
  3. Smith, Bryan. (2004). Computer-mediated negotiated interaction and lexical acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 26/03.
    • In reader
  4. Ortega, L. (1997). Processes and outcomes in networked classroom interaction: Defining the research agenda for L2 computer-assisted classroom discussion. Language Learning & Technology, 1/1: 82-93.
  5. Blake, R. (2000). Computer mediated communication: A window on L2 Spanish interlanguage. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 120-136.

Additional Reading:

  1. Payne, J. S. and P. J. Whitney. 2002. Developing L2 oral proficiency through synchronous CMC: Output, working memory, and interlanguage development. CALICO Journal 20.1: 7-32.
  2. Beauvois, M.H. (1998). Write to speak: The effects of electronic communication on the oral achievement of fourth semester French students. In Judith A. Muyskens (ed.), New ways of learning and teaching: Focus on technology and foreign language education. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.
  3. Pelletieri, J. (2000). Negotiation in cyberspace: The role of Chatting in the development of grammatical competence. In M. Warschauer, & R. Kern (eds.), Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Sotillo, S. (2000). Discourse functions and syntactic complexity in synchronous and asyncronous communication. Language Learning & Technology Vol. 4, No. 1, May 2000, pp. 82-119

What are the relationships between psychogical well-being, involvement, and Internet use? For a perspective, see these two related articles:

Kraut, R. et al. (2000). Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being? American Psychologist, Volume 55, Number 12.

Kraut, R., Kiesler, S., Boneva, B., Cummings, J., Helgeson, V., & Crawford, A. (2002). Internet Paradox Revisited. Journal of Social Issues 58/1:49-74. (In reader)

W8: 3/3

Presentation of Self/Selves; Power and the Internet

  1. Spears, R., & Lea, M. (1994). Panacea or Panopticon? The Hidden Power in Computer-Mediated Communication. Communication Research 21/4: 427-459.
    • In reader
  2. Walther, Joseph. (1996). Computer-Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction. Communication Research 23/1: 3-43.
    • In reader
  3. Bays, H. (1999). Framing and face in Internet exchanges: A socio-cognitive approach.
  4. Turke, Sherry. (1996). Who Am We? Wired, 4, 1, January 1996.

Additional Reading:

  1. Turkle, Sherry. (1998). Interivew with Katie Hafner: At Heart of a Cyberstudy, the Human Essence. New York Times, June 18, 1998.
  2. Turke, Sherry. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  3. Chester, Andrea, & Gwynne, Gillian. (1998). Online Teaching: Encouraging Collaboration through Anonymity. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4 (2) December 1998.

 

Click here for a overview of the ideas of Michel Foucault (discussed in Spears & Lea)

 

 
W9: 3/17

Intercultural Communication and Language Education

  1. Thorne, S. (2003). Artifacts and Cultures-of-Use in Intercultural Communication. Language Learning & Technology 7/2: 38-67.
  2. Belz, J. (2003). Linguistic perspectives on the development of intercultural competence
    in telecollaboration. Language Learning and Technology 7/2: 68-117.
  3. Kern, R.G. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Using e-mail exchanges to explore personal histories in two cultures. In M. Warshauer (ed.), Telecollaboration in foreign language learning. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i, Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, pp. 105-119.
    • In reader
  4. Furstenberg, G., Levet, S. (2001). Giving a Virtual Voice to the Silent Language of Culture: The Cultura Project. Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 55-102.

Additional Readings:

  1. Kramsch, C., & Thorne, S. (2001). Foreign Language Learning as Global Communicative Practice. In D. Block and D. Cameron (eds.) Language Learning and Teaching in the Age of Globalization. London: Routledge.
    • In reader
  2. Kinginger, C. (1998). Videoconferencing as access to spoken French. Modern Language Journal 82/4:502-513.
    • In reader
  3. Belz, J. (2002). Social Dimensions of Telecollaborative Foreign Language Study. Language Learning & Technology Vol. 6, No.1, pp. 60-81.
  4. Müller-Hartmann, A. (2000). The role of tasks in promoting intercultural learning in electronic learning networks. Language Learning & Technology Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 129-147.

Additional Reading: Intercultural Communication Through Media

  1. Lee, L. (1998). Going beyond classroom learning: Acquiring cultural knowledge via on-line newspaper and intercultural exchanges via on-line chatrooms. CALICO Journal 16/2: 101-120.
  2. Meskill, C., Osuna, M. (1998). Using the World Wide Web to Integrate Spanish Language and Culture: A Pilot Study. Language Learning & Technology, 1/2: 71-92.
  3. Cononelos, T., & Oliva, M. (1993). Using computer networks to enhance foreign language/culture education. Foreign Language Annals 26: 525-534.

Check-out the French-American telecollaboration project at MIT: CULTURA

W10: 3/24

Multimedia and the Web

  1. Chun, D., Payne, S. J. (2004). What makes students click: Working memory and look-up behavior. System 32/4: 481-503.
  2. Alm-Lequeux, A. (2001). Using the Internet as a zone of proximal development for teaching indirect speech: A Vygotskian Approach. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 34, 1-9.
    • In reader
  3. Kramsch, C., Anderson, R. (1999). Teaching text and context through multimedia. Language Learning & Technology, 2/2: 31-42.
  4. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 7 (The language of the web): In reader
  5. Chun, D., Plass, J. (2000). Networked Multimedia Environments for Second Language Acquisition. In M. Warschauer, & R. Kern (eds.), Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
    • In reader
  6. Plass, J., Chun, D., Mayer, R., Leutner, D. (2003). Cognitive load in reading a foreign language text with multimedia aids and the influence of verbal and spatial abilities. Computers in Human Behavior 19: 221-243.
    • In reader

Theory and Design

  1. Kapetlinin, V. (1996). Activity theory: Implications for human-computer interaction. In B. A. Nardi (Ed.), Context and consciousness: Activity theory and human-computer interaction (pp. 103-116). Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press.
    • In reader
  2. (Optional) Gifford, B. & Enyedy, N., (1999). Activity centered design : Towards a theoretical framework for CSCL. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning.

Additional Reading:

  1. Hoven, D. (1999). A model for listening and viewing comprehension in multimedia environments. Language Learning & Technology, 3/1: 88-103.
  2. LeLoup, J., Ponterio, R. (1999). Interactive Language Exercises on the Web: An Exemplar. Language Learning & Technology, 3/1: 3-11.

PICCLE/MOODLE: Intercultural collaboration site

 

Literary project on the web: El Perro del Hortellano

 

Multimedia on the web: A Singing Syllabary (Chinese)
W11: 3/30 or 3/31 TBA -- possibilities include special topics (bottom of the page), fresh research/publications, exogenous disciplines (e.g., philosophy, anthropology, history of science), new papers/articles, and/or hands-on session(s).  
W12: 4/7

Location Independent Teaching & Learning; Professionalization; Scalability

  1. Musumeci, D. (forthcoming). The use of instructional technology in high enrollment foreign language courses: Implications for teaacher education and communicative language teaching. In S. Savignon (ed.), Interpreting communicative language teaching: Contexts and concerns in teacher education. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
    • In reader
  2. Noble, D. (1998). Digital diploma mills: The automation of higher education.
  3. Ehrmann, S. (2001). Improving the Outcomes of Higher Education: Learning From Past Mistakes.
  4. Scott, V. (1998). Exploring the link between teaching and technology: An approach to TA development. In Judith A. Muyskens (ed.), New ways of learning and teaching: Focus on technology and foreign language education. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.
    • In reader
  5. Chapelle, C., Hegelheimer, V. (2004). The Language Teacher in the 21st Century. In S. Fotos and C. Browne (eds.), New Perspectives on CALL for Second Langauge Classrooms (pp. 299-316.).Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  6. Wegerif, Rupert. (1998). The Social Dimension of Asynchronous Learning Networks. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Volume 2, Issue.

Additional Reading:

  1. Liddell, P., Garrett, N. (2004). The New Language Centers and the Role of Technology: New Mandates, New Horizons. In S. Fotos and C. Browne (eds.), New Perspectives on CALL for Second Langauge Classrooms (pp. 27-40). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  2. Arvan, L., Musumeci, D. (2000). Instructor Attitudes within the SCALE Efficiency Projects. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Network, 4/3.
 
W13: 4/14

POSSIBLY a canceled class ... TBA

Linguistic Future of the Internet

  1. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 8 (The linguistic future of the Internet): In reader

Advanced Language Proficiency and Technology

  1. Leaver, B. L., Ehrman, M., Lekic, M. (2004). Distinguished-level learning on-line: Support materials from LangNet and RussNet. Foreign Language Annals 37/4: 556-566.
    • In reader

Words words words (vocabulary acquisition)

  1. Chun, D., Plass, J. (1996). Effects of multimedia annotations on vocabulary acquisition. Modern Language Journal 80: 183-198.
  2. Plass, J., Chun, D., Mayer, R., Leutner, D. (2003). Cognitive load in reading a foreign language text with multimedia aids and the influence of verbal and spatial abilities. Computers in Human Behavior 19:221-243.
  3. Groot, P. (2000). Computer assisted second language vocabulary acquisition. Language Learning & Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 60-81.

Computer-based Language Evaluation and Testing

  1. Language Learning & Technology Special Issue on "Computer-Assisted Language Testing"
The Future of English?, David Graddol (1997).
W14: 4/21

In Class Conference

 

 
W15: 4/28 In-class conference and course wrap-up

Course Portfolio due

  • Final project
  • Reaction journal
  • Philosophy of teaching
 

Special Topic: Corpus-based Language Education

  1. Language Learning & Technology Special Issue on "Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning": http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num3/

Special Topic: Critical Pedagogy, Technology, and Education

  1. Lankshear, C., Peters, M., Knobel, M. (1996). Critical pedagogy in cyberspace. In H. Giroux, C. Lankshear, P. McLaren, and M. Peters (eds.), Counternarratives: Cultural studies and critical pedagogies in postmodern spaces. New York: Routledge, 149-188.
    • In reader

Special Topic: Using MOOs for writing and composition

  1. Day, Michael. (1996). Pedagogies in Virtual Spaces: Writing Classes in the MOO.Kairos, 1/2.
  2. Harris, Leslie. (1996). Writing Spaces: Using MOOs to Teach Composition and Literature. Kairos, 1/2.
  3. Bennahum, David. (1994). Fly Me To the MOO: Adventures in Textual Reality. Lingua Franca 4/4 - May/June 1994.

Special Topic: Technology and Language Revitalization

  1. Warschauer, M. (1998). Technology and indigenous language revitalization: Analyzing the experience of Hawai'i. Canadian Modern Language Review, 55(1), 140-161.
Using MOOs in educational contexts.
 

 

 

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