CALL for Bridges between School and Academia (Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning .1) (2015. 189 S. 210 mm)

This volume looks at different ways in which research and educational practice can be linked. The chapters, contributed by academics and teachers of English, explore areas of such bridge building in the area of computer assisted language learning: teacher training, material writing and sharing, course design. This volume looks at different ways in which research and educational practice in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) can be linked. The chapters, contributed by academics and teachers of English, explore teacher training, material writing and sharing, course design and Open Educational Resources (OER). Inhalt: Anna Turula/Maria Chojnacka: Introduction - Malgorzata Kurek/Anna Skowron: Going Open? - a pilot study on teachers' attitudes to openness - Katarzyna Hryniuk: Metalinguistic expressions in research articles written by Polish and English native-speakers: A corpus-based study - Elzbieta Gajewska/Joanna Podhorodecka: Why are there so few collections of business and official email templates? On the changing principles and tools in teaching business correspondence - Jaroslaw Krajka: EIL and World Englishes in the language classroom - using CALL to expand the sociocultural context of language teaching - Anna Turula: Digital TEFL training programmes - in search of a bridge well-balanced - Wojciech Malec: The development of an online course in Irish: Adapting academic materials to the needs of secondary-school students - Mariusz Kruk: Willingness to communicate in English in Active Worlds - Krzysztof Kotula: Video annotation and delayed oral corrective feedback - Mariusz Marczak: Using videoconferencing software to maintain classroom presence for absent students - Ewa Zarzycka-Piskorz: How I stopped worrying and loved... Moodle (from the practice of an e-(nglish)-learning teacher). Anna Turula is Professor for English Studies at the Pedagogical University in Cracow, Poland. Her research interests include CALL, cognitive and affective domains in language learning. Maria Chojnacka is Head of the Practical English Teaching Section at the University of Social Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include EFL methodology and the use of technology in teaching English for Medical Purposes.