Technology Workshop Materials

Below are the materials used for conducting the CALPER 2008 Summer Workshop on Technology, which may be used freely with appropriate citation at any workshop or presentation. Please contact Steve Thorne, Penn State or Jon Reinhardt, U of Arizona if you plan to do so. Please note:

• Besides the sample schedule, there is a bibliography below of useful articles and links for workshop participants, as well as references to the powerpoint presentation.
• The workshop included Internet access and blogs for all participants, as well as a group wiki.
• The workshop powerpoint presentation s are provided below as pdfs in finished form.

The Big Picture

• Pew Internet & American Life Project. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools.
• http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Schools_Internet_Report.pdf
• Pew Internet & American Life Project. (2005). The Future of the Internet.
• http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Future_of_Internet.pdf
• A clever video on W eb 2.0 from youtube: The Machine is Us/ing Us, by Michael Wesch
• Thorne, S. L. & Payne, J. S. (2005). Internet-mediated Text and Multi-modal Expression in Foreign Language Education. CALPER Working Paper.
• Thorne, S. L. (2006). New Technologies and Additional Language Learning. CALPER Working Paper.

Blogs & Wikis

• Reinhardt, J. & Thorne, S. L. (2007). SCMC, Blogs, & Wikis. CALPER Professional Development Manual.
• Bloch, J. (2007). Abbdullah's Blogging: A Generation 1.5 Student Enters the Blogosphere. Language Learning and Technology, 11(2), 128-141.
  • http://llt.msu.edu/vol11num2/bloch/default.html
• Goodwin-Jones, B. (2003). Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration. Language Learning & Technology 7/2:12-16.
• http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num2/emerging/default.html
• Pinkman, K. (2005). Using Blogs in the Foreign Language Classroom. The JALT CALL Journal, 1(1), 12-24.
  • http://jaltcall.org/journal/articles/1_1_Pinkman.pdf

Computer-mediated Communication

• Bauer, B., deGenedette, L., Furstenberg, G., Levet, S. & Waryn, S. (2006). The Cultura Project. In J. A. Belz & S. L. Thorne (eds.), Internet-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (p. 31-62). Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle. PDF
• Belz, J. (2003). Linguistic perspectives on the development of intercultu ral competence in telecollaboration. Language Learning and Technology 7/2: 68-117.
  • http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num2/pdf/belz.pdf
• Thorne, S. (2005). Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education: Approaches, Pedagogy, and Research. CALPER Working Paper.
• Thorne, S. (2003). Artifacts and Cultures-of-Use in Intercultural Communication. Language Learning & Technology 7/2: 38-67.
• http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num2/pdf/thorne.pdf
• Thorne, S. L., & Black, R. (2008). Language and Literacy Development in Computer-mediated Contexts and Communities. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 27: 133-160.
• Ware, P., & Kramsch, C. (2005). Toward in intercultural stance: Teaching German and English through telecollaboration. Modern Language J ournal  89(2): 190-205. PDF

Gaming

• Conklin, M. 101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom: A great overview and discussion of educational uses of SL.
• Goodwin-Jones, R. (2005). Messaging, Gaming, Peer-to-Peer Sharing: Language Learning Strategies & Tools for the Millennial Generation. Language Learning & Technology 9/1: 17-22.
• http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num1/emerging/default.html
• Nardi, B., Ly, S., & Harris, J. (2007). Learning conversations in World of Warcraft. The proceedings of the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. New York: IEEE Press
• http://www.artifex.org/~bonnie/pdf/Nardi-HI CSS.pdf
• Purushotma, R. (2005). Commentary: You're not studying, you're just... Language Learning and Technology 9/1, 80-96.
  • http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num1/purushotma/
  • Purushotma, R. Communicative 2.0 -- Foreign Language Education Learning with Video Games and Authentic Web Media Tasks
• Steinkuehler, C. A. (2004). Learning in massively multiplayer online g ames. In Y. B. Kafai, W. A. Sandoval, N. Enyedy, A. S. Nixon, & F. Herrera (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 521–528). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• http://website.education.wisc.edu/steinkuehler/papers/SteinkuehlerICLS2004.pdf
• Sykes, J., Oskoz, A., & Thorne, S. L. (2008). Web 2.0, Synthetic Immers ive Environments, and Mobile Resources for Language Education. CALICO Journal, 25(3): 528-546. PDF
• Thorne, S. L. (2008). Transcultural communication in open Internet environments and massively multiplayer online games. In S. Magnan (ed.), Mediating Discourse Online. pp. 305-327. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF

Corpus-informed pedagogy, Data-driven learning, and Bridging Activities

• McCarthy, M. & Evison, J. (2004). Using Corpora in Language Teaching. CALPER Digest.
• McCarthy, M. & Evison, J. Using authentic 'real language' in teaching and learning: an online corpus tutorial.
• Thorne, S. L. & Reinhardt, J. (2008). “Bridging Activities,R 21; New Media Literacies and Advanced Foreign Language Proficiency. CALICO Journal, 25(3): 558-572. PDF
• Thorne, S. L., Reinhardt, J., & Golombek, P. (2008). Mediation as Objectification in the Development of Professional Discourse: A Corpus-Informed Curricular Innovation. In J. Lantolf & M. Poehner (eds.), Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages (pp. 256-284). Lond on: Equinox. PDF (manuscript version)

Powerpoint References

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Belz, J. & Kinginger, C. (2002). The cross-linguistic developm ent of address form use in telecollaborative language learning: Two case studies. The Canadian Modern Language Revue/La revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 59, 189–214.

Belz, J. & Kinginger, C. (2003). Discourse options and the development of pragmatic competence by classroom learners of German: The case of address forms. Language Learning, 53, 591–647.

Belz, J. A., & Thorne, S. L. (eds.) (2006). Internet-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.

Belz, J. (2002). Social dimensions of telecollaborative foreign language study. Language Learning & Technology, 6, 60–8.

Black, R. W. (2005). Access and affiliation: The literacy and composition practices of English-language learners in an online fanfiction community. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 49(2), 118-128.

Black, R. W. (2006). Language, culture, and identity in online fanfiction. E-learning, 2(2), 170-184.

Black, R . W. (2007). Digital design: English language learners and reader feedback in online fanfiction. In M. Knobel & Lankshear (eds.), A new literacies sampler. Peter Lang.

Black, R.W. (2008). Adolescents and online fan fiction. New York: Peter Lang.

Blake, R. & Zyzik, E. (2003). Who’s helping whom? Learner/heritage-speakers’ networked discussions in Spanish. Applied Linguistics, 24, 519–544.

Blake, R. (2000). Computer mediated communication: A window on L2 Spanish interlanguage. Language Learning & Technology, 4, 120–136.

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Furstenberg, G., Levet, S., English, K., & Maillet, K. (2001). Giving a virtual voice to the silent language of culture: The Cultura project. Language Learning & Technology, 5, 55–102.

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Kramsch, C. (2006). From communicative competence to symbolic competence. The Modern Language Journal, 90(2), 249-252.

Kramsch, C. & Thorne, S. (2002). Foreign language learning as global communicative practice. In D. Block & D. Cameron (Eds.), Language learning and teaching in the age of globalization. London: Routledge.

Lam, W. (2004). Second language socialization in a bilingual chat room: Global and local considerations. Language Learning & Technology, 8 (3), 44-65.
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Lankshear, C., & Knobel, M. (2006). New literacies: Changing knowledge and classroom learning (Second ed.). Philadelphia: Open University Press.

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McCarthy, M., McCarten, J. & Sandiford, H. (2006). Touchstone. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Payne, S. & Whitney, P. (2002). Developing L2 Oral Proficiency Through Synchronous CMC: Output, Working Memory, and Interlanguage Development. CALICO Journal 20 (1), 7-32.

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Thorne, S., Reinhardt, J., and Golombek, P. (2008). " Mediation as Objectification in the Development of Professional Academic Discourse: A Corpus-informed Curricular Innovation". In J. Lantolf & M. Poehner (Eds.), Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages, 256-284. London: Equinox.

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