{"title":"Legal Issues and Language Learning Technology","authors":"J. Shoaf","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V42I1.8507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V42I1.8507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130311052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Web-Based Tutorial for the Instruction of Spanish Pragmatics","authors":"Victoria Russell, Camilla Vásquez","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8494","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a Web-based tutorial (WBT), developed forinstruction on Spanish pragmatics. The WBT was designed to teachlearners of Spanish as a foreign language about the speech acts ofcomplaints and requests, and the content of the WBT is based on availableempirical evidence about these speech acts. We describe and illustrate, indetail, the format, structure, and various sections of the WBT, including:lessons, ancillary support, and assessment. In addition, some technicalconsiderations in the development of the WBT, such as the user interfacedesign, are also discussed. The paper concludes with suggestions forimplementing this open access WBT in various teaching contexts, as wellas a discussion of directions for future research. Given the paucity ofmaterials available for the instruction of Spanish pragmatics, either inprint or on the Web, the WBT fills an important gap and provides a modelfor the development of future online pragmatics-focused materials.","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128384204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Stanford Non-Native Rapper Contest: Fostering Transcultural Competences Using Social Media","authors":"Per Urlaub, Joseph Kautz","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8497","url":null,"abstract":"The Stanford Non-Native Rapper Contest is an annual event organized by the Digital Language Lab at Stanford University. Ev ery year, language instructors encourage undergraduate learners to eng age in a creative project: learners receive the opportunity to compos e rap music, write lyrics in the target language, produce videos, and share their clips via a YouTube channel. The response from undergraduate st udents has been positive: since the contest’s inception in 2008, al most 50 learners of world languages and of less-commonly taught languages hav e p rticipated, and their clips have been viewed by more than 30,000 in ternet users in less than three years. The first part of this article de scribes the evolution of the project and outlines the roles of the language lab f cilities and its staff members in organizing this collaborative learning e nvironment. The second part of the article will contextualize Stanf ord’s Non-Native Rapper Contest within current theoretical debates that rel at to the acquisition of transcultural competences and to alternative assess m nt in collegiate language learning environments.","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124017179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computer Assisted Instruction & the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines","authors":"Christina Huhn","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8491","url":null,"abstract":"The current study presents the results of one mixed-method analysis of theimplementation of communicative online activities into beginning Spanishclasses, their effects on class performance, and evaluation of the studentgeneratedwork from the online module. Results show that althoughstatistically there may be some doubt as to the effectiveness of an additionof a WebCT/Blackboard ® component into a beginning Spanish program,the environment did provide opportunities for students to demonstratelanguage proficiency. It is the analysis of student writing samplesgathered from the hybrid course, using a rubric based on the ACTFLWriting Proficiency Guidelines, that adds depth and breadth to the study.The article also addresses common issues that arise in traditionalanalyses of technology implementations, and suggests ways that theACTFL Writing Proficiency Guidelines can be useful in the evaluation ofstudent work in qualitative research.","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124531829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing Student Oral Language Proficiency: Cost-Conscious Tools, Practices & Outcomes","authors":"Peter B. Swanson, Patricia R. Nolde","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8495","url":null,"abstract":"Second language teachers have an ever increasing abundance oftechnology choices for assessment of student oral proficiency through theadaption of consumer electronics and multimedia devices. The purpose ofthis article is two-fold: (1) to address the benefits and ease of usingdifferent multimedia tools to assess students' oral language proficiencyregardless of grade level and (2) to report the findings of an orallanguage assessment study. Results from the empirical study (N = 128)show that there are manifold benefits of using technology for oralproficiency assessment for both students and instructors. Additionally, thisresearch emphasizes the importance of maximum use of the targetlanguage in the classroom and the importance of aligning assessmentrubrics to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language'sspeaking proficiency guidelines.","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114328065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Managing Editor","authors":"Lance R. Askildson","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8489","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124008053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF MOBILE PHONE TECHNOLOGY FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING","authors":"Jack Burston","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I2.8490","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the exploitation of mobile phone technology for the learning of foreign languages. It begins by considering the obstacles facing the effective use of mobile phone technology for language learning. In doing so, the paper describes four challenges that have to be overcome for mobile phone technology to become an effective pedagogical tool. Specifically: Intrusiveness, Cost, Practical technological constraints and Pedagogical methodologies. Having defined the issues that need to be addressed, the paper then proceeds to describe how these challenges have been met in the design of MobLang, an EU funded Lifelong Learning project.","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114906560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESP for Busy College Students: Is the Blend of In-Class, Online & Mobile Learning the Answer?","authors":"A. Palalas","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I1.8485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I1.8485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129577336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 'Virtual Language Lab' Virtually Painless, Simply Real","authors":"Lunden E. MacDonald","doi":"10.17161/IALLT.V41I1.8484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/IALLT.V41I1.8484","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the technology that has inspired and guided the design of a ‘virtual language center,’ within the context of a major urban college. Specifically, a number of mobile and cloud-based resources will be proposed and discussed such as: Asynchronous writing computer-mediated communication; Collaborative publishing; Textbook specific technological assistance; Video interface; Virtual realities and cyber-real estate; social networking tools; and communication tools that function in tandem with other technologies. The present paper provides a detailed assessment of the implementation of a virtual language learning center at one institution alongside suggestions for implementing a host of similar technologies at other schools. The paper argues that portable technology in the language classroom is particularly beneficial to the student and the instructor, and how it brings the language classroom and curriculum into the realm of best practices for 21st-Century Learning.","PeriodicalId":366246,"journal":{"name":"The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131216800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}