Technologies for Advanced Foreign Language Proficiency. Thorne & Reinhardt (2007) (PDF)
Technologies for Advanced Foreign Language Proficiency     
Internet-mediated communication is no longer merely a proxy or additional activity used to foster development of communicative competence in other modalities. On the contrary, the Internet is increasingly a part of everyday communicative practice. The materials and workshops associated with the CALPER Technology project aim to prepare students and teachers to more fully realize the potential of computer-mediated-communication (CMC) for both teaching/learning and everyday communicative activity.

Computer Mediated Activity Library

CALPER's foreign language Computer Mediated Activity Library contains CMC activities with suggestions for using them in the classroom, and a bibliography with additional resources.


Professional Development Materials

I. A series of concise manuals on various technologies.

CALPER Working Papers


Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics

Technology, Mediation, and Second-language Development
June 22 – July 3, 2009 ..... 10:45pm - 12:45pm

Exploration of the theoretical and pedagogical implications of Internet-based technologies in a wide array of language education contexts.

This course will explore the theoretical and pedagogical implications of Internet-based technologies in a wide array of language education contexts. Course activities will include critical discussion of established as well as emerging Internet communication, information, and composition tools. We will also consider research and exploratory uses focusing on synthetic immersive environments and massively multiplayer online games. Course readings will include technology-related research drawing from second-language acquisition, sociocultural and activity theory, cultural studies, and educational theories of development. Participants will be expected to exit the course with a broad knowledge of educational uses of technology and will have the opportunity, through a variety of course activities, to focus on specific empirical, theoretical, and/or pedagogical contexts that relate to their academic and professional specializations.

Instructor: Steven L. Thorne, Penn State University

This course can be taken for credit or non-credit. For more information please visit Penn State Outreach: 2009 Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics Website



Project Co-Directors: Steven L. Thorne and Jonathon Reinhardt, Arizona State University

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CALPER's Technology Workshop focuses on the creation of innovative, technology-enhanced methods and activities for classroom instruction to promote the development of linguistic, cultural, pragmatic, interpersonal and communicative competencies of advanced language learners. For an overview of our 2008 workshop click here .

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