Programme           Pre-Conference Workshops               Programme           Please note: when registering for the Conference, you may also register for a Pre-Conference Workshop.           UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK, IRELAND 3–6 September 2003 CONFERENCE THEMES AND DAILY PROGRAMME NEW LITERACIES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING           The theme aims to focus attention on the changing concepts and practices concerning literacy brought about by technological developments, particularly in relation to language learning and teaching. With the following list of sub-themes the organisers seek to bring a rich and interesting variety of perspectives to the conference:           Sub-themes:     Spoken and written corpora in language teaching and learning New literacies and the World Wide Web: website creation and evaluation; media literacy; visual literacy Physical and digital resources: appropriate teaching methodologies in a dedicated physical CALL environment covering: learner expectations and learner strategies; accessibility; student profiling New literacies and the four skills: the relationship between the more “traditional” language skills and the “new literacies”; to what extent should current teaching paradigms be re-interpreted? Interactivity, learner interaction, feedback.           PLENARY SPEAKERS           Mike McCarthy, University of Nottingham, UK, University of Limerick, Ireland Spoken corpora and methodology Robin Goodfellow, Open University, UK Literacies and Learning Technologies: speaking and writing in the virtual classroom Dieter Wolff, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany Web-based teaching and learning: A research perspective           DAILY PROGRAMME     Registration: Wednesday 3 September 17h00 – 19h30           Thursday 4.9.2003           TIME EVENT 08.30 - 09.15 Registration and coffee 09.15 - 09.30 Opening Ceremony Jean Monnet Lecture Theatre 09.30 - 10.30 Keynote Speaker One - Mike McCarthy Spoken corpora and methodology Jean Monnet Lecture Theatre 10.30 - 12.30 Parallel sessions (click here for details) 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 16.00 Parallel sessions (click here for details) 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 - 18.30 Parallel sessions (click here for details) 18.00 – 19.00 Regional Reps' Meeting 19.00 - Graham Davies "10 Years of CALL" Reception and Buffet Atrium - Foundation Building Sponsored by Professor Roger G.H Downer, President, University of Limerick                 Friday 5.9.2003           TIME EVENT 08.40 - 09.00 Introduction to EUROCALL for newcomers 09.00 - 11.00 Parallel sessions (click here for details) 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 - 13.00 AGM Jean Monnet Lecture Theatre Poster Sessions EG010 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 15.00 Keynote Speaker Two - Robin Goodfellow Literacies and Learning Technologies: speaking and writing in the virtual classroom Jean Monnet theatre 15.00 - 16.15 Parallel sessions (click here for details) 16.15 - 16.45 Coffee Break 16.45 - 18.45 Parallel sessions (click here for details) 18.45 - 19.45 Special Interest Groups' Meetings Poster Sessions 19.45 - Irish Evening The Stables - University of Limerick Sponsored by Professor Pat O'Connor, Dean, College of Humanities, University of Limerick                 Saturday 6.9.2003           TIME EVENT 09.00 - 11.00 Parallel sessions (click here for details) 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 - 12.30 Keynote Speaker Three - Dieter Wolff Web-based teaching and learning: A research perspective Jean Monnet Lecture Theatre 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 16.00 Parallel Sessions (click here for details) 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 - 17.30 Closing Ceremony           Please note: when registering for the Conference, you may also register for a Pre-Conference Workshop.           Please note also: on Wednesday 3 September, there will be a unique presentation by our esteemed colleague Brian Farrington entitled: "Words alone are certain good..." (W.B.Yeats), which will include 60 minutes of poetry, anecdote, gossip and song evoking Ireland's greatest poet. This special event will take place after the Pre-Conference Workshops and Registrations, at 18.30 in the Dromroe Village Hall on the UL Campus within Dromroe Accommodation Village. Admission is free, but the presentation will be rich.     for further information, contact Liam.Murray@ul.ie           back to top           Pre-Conference Workshops           WEDNESDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER 2003 09h00 – 17h00           CORPUS LINGUISTICS RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING Organisers: Martin Wynne, Ylva Berglund and Pernilla Danielsson MALTED WORKSHOP Organiser: Paul Bangs INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) - WORKSHOP FULLY BOOKED Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Organisers : Françoise Blin and Mike Levy CREATING MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE FOR TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LANGUAGE LEARNING Organiser: Michael Grabis                 CORPUS LINGUISTICS RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING           Organisers: Martin Wynne, Ylva Berglund and Pernilla Danielsson           This workshop is for language teachers who use or intend to use language corpora. It aims to help them to make informed choices about tools and resources to use for language teaching and pedagogic research. The first part of the workshop will focus on monolingual resources and tools. The participants will be given the opportunity to view and work with a range of corpus resources and concordance software packages. Some guidelines on how to appraise and evaluate these resources will be explored. The second part of the workshop will be devoted to multilingual corpora. We will investigate various methods to study translation and contrastive linguistics, especially focusing on the units of meaning in each language and the units of translation between languages. A session will cover the following topics:     An overview of different kinds of multilingual corpora Working with corpora in translation studies and contrastive linguistics Retrieving Units of Meaning and Translation Units from Parallel Texts Sentence Alignment of Parallel Texts     The participants will be introduced to a parallel concordance tool, ParaConc.           ORGANISERS     Martin Wynne is the Head of the Oxford Text Archive (OTA), which is the Arts and Humanities Data Service Centre for Literature, Languages and Linguistics. Martin has worked on the development of the British National Corpus, the Bank of English, the COBUILD dictionary on CD-ROM as well as French, German and Polish corpus resources. martin.wynne@ota.ahds.ac.uk Ylva Berglund is Information Officer at the Oxford Text Archive and Resource Development Officer for the English Faculty at Oxford University, and has wide experience of working with and promoting the use of electronic tools and corpus resources for research, teaching and learning. Pernilla Danielsson is the Deputy Director at the Centre for Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham. In 2000 she became the new Project Manager for the EU-funded project TELRI-II (Trans European Language Resources Infrastructure). With a background in Computational Linguistics, she is now focusing her research on the study of units of meaning in corpora.           Registration fee (including lunch and coffee): €90           back to pre-conference workshops           MALTED WORKSHOP           Organiser: Paul Bangs           MALTED (Multimedia Authoring for Language Tuition and Educational Development) was first developed within a large-scale project funded by the European Commission. Further development by the Spanish Ministry of Education, has resulted in the availability of MALTED2. The system can offer, via its use of templated construction, easy creation of a wide range of exercises: multiple choice; association/matching; crosswords; hangman; memory game; ordering; gap filling; transcription, spelling and translation; true/false; dialogues; recording; free writing. But additionally, it has the power to combine these into coherent courseware. It also has flexibility of control over the graphical interface, and allows for the inclusion of media objects on to any screen, with conditional branching options. The system uses Java to output as .xml. Malted and Java items can be downloaded from: http://malted.cnice.mecd.es/instalar/index.htm Thanks to a GNU agreement, use of the system is open and free of charge to all. In this workshop we will give a very brief overview of the system, but will concentrate on hands-on training to facilitate both production of exercise activities and their linking into courseware. A full English tutorial will also be available by that date. Participants are welcome to bring with them any ideas and resources of their own (text, graphics, sound or video) but some sample content will be provided.           ORGANISER     Paul Bangs is a free-lance consultant in Educational Technology with many years of experience working in Higher Education. He worked on the early stages of the MALTED project and is involved with its dissemination and exploitation. Accompanying him will be Paul Hogan from the Language Centre, University College London, one of the original partners in the project. BangsPaul@aol.com           Registration fee (including lunch and coffee): €90           back to pre-conference workshops           INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL)     Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences           Organisers : Françoise Blin and Mike Levy           The aims of the workshop are, firstly, to provide prospective and established CALL researchers from Ireland and abroad with the opportunity to share their experience, and secondly to identify possible areas of research collaboration between senior and junior researchers on one hand, and between researchers from different institutions on the other. During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on and to discuss issues related to CALL research, and in particular a) process and outcomes in elaborating appropriate theoretical frameworks; b) formulation and assessment of critical research questions for CALL; c) identification and exploration of effective research methods for CALL, including new and innovative approaches to data collection and analysis. Junior researchers are particularly welcome.           Provisional Programme           09.00 – 10.45 Opening – Research stories 10.45 – 11.45 Theoretical frameworks underpinning CALL research; link between theory and research, theory and design, design and research (coffee available around 11.00) 11.45 – 12.45 Research questions: what constitutes a ‘critical’ research question for CALL? What are the criteria for assessing the value of research questions? 12.45 – 13.45 Lunch 13.45 – 16.00 Data collection methods and tools, interpretation of results, computer tracking and virtual ethnography; strengths and limitations of different methods 16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break 16.15 – 17.00 Discussion: evaluation of workshop and way forward. 17.00 Close of workshop           ORGANISERS     Mike Levy is Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, (Australia). He has widely published in the area of CALL and is the author of Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Context and Conceptualization (OUP). In the last decade, he has been investigating the theoretical bases for CALL with a view to understanding more precisely the relationship between theory and design in the development of CALL programs and tasks. michael.levy@mailbox.gu.edu.au Françoise Blin is Senior Lecturer in French at Dublin City University. She has been involved in CALL research, development and practice since 1985. She is an elected member of the EUROCALL Executive Committee and a member of the academic panels of the international journals ReCALL and ALSIC. francoise.blin@dcu.ie           Registration fee (lunch and coffee only): €20           back to pre-conference workshops           CREATING MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE FOR TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LANGUAGE LEARNING           The ambition of creating in-house multimedia courseware for Technology-enhanced Language Learning can be observed in a rising number of Second and Third Level Institutions all over the world. In the context of the EUROCALL 2003 conference some critical questions about the production of in-house materials must necessarily be asked: What are the essential advantages and limits of in-house created multimedia courseware? What does multimedia authoring really mean in terms of required support and time investment? This workshop invites you to share experiences and offers insights in the process of creating multimedia courseware for technology-enhanced language learning at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). The recently launched EUROPASS 2003 for French, German, Italian and Spanish courses has been created by teaching staff of the Modern Languages Departments of NUIG and includes pictures, sound and streaming video, all produced in-house using several authoring systems such as Speaker Author 6.0. In a first part, the workshop will present examples of multimedia courseware and discuss crucial aspects such as authenticity, learner-autonomy, intercultural learning, interactivity, feedback and instructional design and layout. The second part of the workshop reflects concrete experiences with multimedia authoring projects. It will focus on aspects such as the different kinds of authoring software, time investment, staffing and recognition, copyright issues, quality assessment and curricular implementation of the courseware. Note: To attend this workshop, experiences with multimedia authoring are not required. However if there are participants who have already worked with authoring software, they are more than welcome to talk about their work and exchange experiences.           ORGANISER     Michael Grabis is Consultant and Staff Trainer for Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Teaching, National University of Ireland, Galway Galway, Ireland. E-mail: michael.grabis@nuigalway.ie           Registration fee (including lunch and coffee): €90           back to pre-conference workshops           back to top         conference details | about limerick | social programme | accommodation | travel | registration