Connecting CALL Theory and Practice in Preservice Teacher Education and Beyond

Processes and Products

Authors

  • Sarah Rilling Kent State University
  • Anne Dahlman University of Minnesota
  • Sarah Dodson Colorado State University
  • Claire Boyles Front Range Community College
  • Ozlem Pazvant Teachers College, Columbia University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v22i2.213-235

Keywords:

Computer-mediated Communications, Computer Pedagogy, Concordancing, English for Specific Purposes, Simulation

Abstract

This paper integrates the theory and practice of computer pedagogies in a variety of language courses, all stemming from participation in a graduate level course on computers in language teaching. First, the graduate level preservice CALL course is described, focusing on how connections between theory and practice were developed. Descriptions of how four participants from the course continued to apply theory in their practice of computer integration in four language courses follows. Each of these four courses demonstrates how computers can be integrated into language teaching to meet course and program goals. Drawing on task and computer pedagogy theories, the first two projects make use of the Internet to provide adult foreign language learners with authentic language input and interaction opportunities, one in a distance learning course in Finland and the other in a French as a foreign language course in the US. The final two projects ground practice on theories of English for specific purposes and computer pedagogies in adult courses in the US, the first a business English course integrating a computer simulation and the second a graduate electrical engineering writing course with materials developed using concordancing software and a specifically designed corpus of engineering texts.

Author Biographies

  • Sarah Rilling, Kent State University

    Sarah Rilling is an assistant professor at Kent State University where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in applied linguistics. Her research interests include computer-mediated communication for language teaching, corpus linguistics, and discipline-based writing and the nonnative speaker. She regularly uses computers in teaching and research.

  • Anne Dahlman, University of Minnesota

    Anne Dahlman is a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. She has taught ESL and German in the USA and EFL in Finland. Her research interests include CALL, second language teacher education, especially theory/practice connections, and English for academic purposes.

  • Sarah Dodson, Colorado State University

    Sarah Dodson teaches lower-division French classes and supervises the graduate teaching assistants at Colorado State University. She has also taught ESL in the US, EFL in France, and English composition for native speakers. Her research interests include the use of drama in language teaching and CALL.

  • Claire Boyles, Front Range Community College

    Claire Boyles teaches ESL and Developmental Composition at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has also taught ESL and Reading/ Language Arts at the middle school level. Her research interests include CALL and learning disabilities and language acquisition.

  • Ozlem Pazvant, Teachers College, Columbia University

    Ozlem Pazvant is a doctoral student in TESL/TEFL at Teacherʼs College, Columbia University. She has taught EFL to adults and teens in Turkey and ESL to Electrical Engineers in the US. Her research interests include using computer technologies in vocabulary acquisition, and metaphor identifi cation and interpretation.

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2013-01-14

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2005)

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Rilling, S., Dahlman, A., Dodson, S., Boyles, C., & Pazvant, O. (2013). Connecting CALL Theory and Practice in Preservice Teacher Education and Beyond: Processes and Products. CALICO Journal, 22(2), 213-235. https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v22i2.213-235

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