Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Welcome to CALL!

Hello and welcome to the Hanyang TESL department's Computer-Assisted Language Learning class! I'm Professor Warren and I'm very pleased to be your instructor this semester. If you keep an open mind and are willing to try new apps, programs, and techniques, we will all learn so much and gain valuable experience together. The main assignments will include a partner presentation about specific types of educational technology, blogging reviews of technology discussed in class, and a final project relating to practical applications for classroom technology.

The general schedule of the class will be as follows:


Week 1
Introduction to CALL
Short presentations

Week 2
Topic Overview
Project Signup
Lecture: Blogging Platforms

Week 3
Lecture: Presentation-makingTools

Week 4
Group 1 Presentation
Lecture: Corpora, Concordance, Collocations, Word Frequency

Week 5
Group 2 Presentation
Lecture: Assessment and Surveying tools

Week 6
Group 3 Presentation
Lecture: TBA

Week 7
Group 4 Presentation
Lecture: TBA

Week 8
Final Project Presentations

Week 9
Final Project Presentations (continued)

Week 10
TBA