The goal of Mike Levy and Glenn Stockwell's CALL Dimensions: Options and Issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning is to build a detailed picture of modern-day computer-assisted language learning (CALL) for language teachers, researchers, and materials designers and evaluators. To begin their discussion on CALL, Levy and Stockwell identified a number of keyword descriptors, called "CALL dim...

This paper examines the use of mobile devices for language learning. In particular we consider how different multimedia and interface modalities can be used to facilitate mobile language learning. The use of multimedia is considered within the context of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) theories. In particular, we examine the Interaction Framework...

Ever since computer technologies were accessible to second language learners and teachers, various types of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) have been harnessed in the service of teaching languages. Most recently, the advent of online technologies has sparked CALL practitioners to integrate this powerful form of teaching and learning into language education. This paper synthesizes the...

Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) systems should be used, in our opinion, with a double purpose: helping the user in his/her learning process and, helping in the research of Second Language Acquisition theories. These systems can be used in the study of special phenomena of Language Acquisition, such as fossilisation and learning strategies. Some work in this direction has...

Computer assisted language learning systems have demonstrated ability to increase student learning in real classroom settings. In addition to the learning benefits students receive, tutoring systems can provide data to help learning sciences researchers understand how students learn. This in turn can lead to the design of more effective and efficient systems. We present two tutors developed to ...

The proliferation of social networking services has revolutionized the way people around the world interact and communicate. The need to overcome language barriers that impose hurdles to this human communication is more acute than ever. Computer Assisted Language Learning systems try to bridge the gap between the need and the availability of language services in education. The convergence of bo...

Behind the somewhat pompous name of this paper hides a much more modest aim. It is an attempt at clarifying one of the major problem areas found in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), specifically the use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The aim of CALL is to produce tools aiding the acquisition of foreign languages and, long-term, to produce full-fledged, virtual, mu...