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Projects and meetings

Below are some of the recent AILA ReN activities.
1. A special issue of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
2. A special issue of The JALT CALL Journal
3. A Symposium on 'the learner in changing CALL environments' at Eurocall in September 2010 (see below)
4. The AILA 2011 Symposium (see below).

AILA 2011

The AILA symposium in Beijing in August 2011 saw the following presentations.

Martine Peters, Nandini Sarma, Mary Frankoff, Alysse Weinberg, Carlton, Canada.
From the mouths of Canadian university students: Web-based information seeking activities for language learning

http://www.slideshare.net/hayoreinders/aila-ren-2011-peters-et-al

Hayo Reinders, Middlesex University, UK.
Focus on the individual: encouraging willingness to communicate through computer games

See www.innovationinteaching.org

Bin Zou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.
Learners' perceptions of using wikis in an online language exchange program

http://www.slideshare.net/hayoreinders/aila-ren-2011-bin-zou#


Hiroyuki Obari, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.
Integrating emerging technologies.

http://www.slideshare.net/hayoreinders/aila-ren-2011-obari


Mirjam Hauck, Open University, UK.
Promoting teachers’ and learners’ e-literacy skills development through cross-institutional exchanges

http://www.slideshare.net/hayoreinders/aila-ren-2011-hauck

Followed by a lively and interesting discussion. A video recording of the entire event will be uploaded later this month.

 

EUROCALL

In September 2010 Glenn Stockwell, Hayo Reinders, Cynthia White, Phil Hubbard and Jozef Colpaert organised a symposium at Eurocall in Bordeaux on the topic of 'the learner in changing CALL environments'. You can see the presentation slides below.
Eurocall 2010 panel on call and the learner
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JALTCALL

The theme for the JALTCALL 2009 conference held at Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo was ‘Expanding Learner Potential – It’s Your CALL,’ and this was selected with the AILA ReN theme in mind. Following on from the conference Hayo Reinders will now be guest editing submissions for a special issue of JALT CALL Journal in the following areas:

- Learner motivation
- Computer-mediated communication (with a focus on the role of the learner)
- Learners’ beliefs in CALL
- (Materials development for) individualising instruction
- Social networking and computer games and second language acquisition
- Mobile-assisted language learning
- Supporting out-of-class language learning
- Teacher education for CALL

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