X-Resent-Date:  Sun, 08 Nov 92 13:46:40 CST
X-Resent-From:  "Fred Davidson, DEIL, UIUC" <DAVIDSON@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
X-Resent-To:    Gail Hawisher <hawisher@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:59:52 CST
Reply-To:     "WAC-L Writing Across the Curriculum (Center for Writing
              Studies)" <WAC-L@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Comments:     Resent-From: "Fred Davidson, DEIL,
              UIUC" <DAVIDSON@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Comments:     Originally-From: "(Gail E. Hawisher)" <hawisher@UIUC.EDU>
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From:         "Fred Davidson, DEIL, UIUC" <DAVIDSON@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
Subject:      Foreign languages & Writing

Gail (mgr. of WAC-L@uiucvmd.bitnet) said it'd be OK to cross post this.
-Fred Davidson
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Gail: may I cross-post this to a couple of other lists -- namely
SLART (Second Language Acq.) and two lang.teaching + technology
lists?  Thanks.

Fred

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On Megabyte University, Lisa Gerrard from UCLA posted the following
references for software, writing, and foreign language teaching.  I thought
some Wackers might find her references of interest in light of our earlier
conversations on foreign languages.  Gail

Lisa writes:

>I've been working with UCLA's Spanish and Portuguese Dept. for years,and
>though we've instituted process-based writing pedagogy, in the computer
>lab we use principally word processing and an invention program that
>I developed called *La preescritura*.
>
>Take a look at the Software Review section in the journal *Hispania*. Most
>FL software is of the grammar drill and practice variety, though
>increasingly there are interactive videodisks for conversation practice.
>Also, every few years ACTFL (American Council on Teaching in Foreign
>Languages) has a technology fair at their annual meeting in November
>(almost always the same weekend as NCTE). If you know anyone who went
>to ACTFL in 1991, you might want to take a look at their program; I
>didn't go last year. The tech fair before that was in 1988.
>
>Bibliography
>
>Margaret Healy Beauvois. Computer-Assisted Classroom Discussion
>in the Foreign Language Classroom: Conversation in Slow Motion.
>Foreign Language Annals 25. 1992.
>
>Carol Chapell. The Discourse of Computer-Assisted Language
>Learning: Toward a Context for Descriptive Research. TESOL
>Quarterly 24. Summer 1990.
>
>Dorothy Chun and Klaus Brandl. Beyond Form-Based Drill and
>Practice: Meaning-Enhancing CALL on the Macintosh. Foreign
>Language Annals 25. 1992.
>
>Patricia W. Cummins. CAI and the French Teacher. The French
>Review 62. Feb. 1989.
>
>Nina Garrett. Applying Instructional Technologies. Foreign
>Language Annals 23. 1990.
>
>Nina Garrett et al. Computers in Foreign Language Teaching and
>Research: A "New Humanism." In Computing Across the Curriculum:
>Academic Perspectives. Ed. William H. Graves. EDUCOM, 1989.
>
>George Greenia. Computers and Teaching Composition in a Foreign
>Language. Foreign Language Annals 25. 1992
>
>T. Edward Harvey. Second-Language Composition Instruction,
>Computers and First-Language Pedagogy: A Descriptive Survey.
>Foreign Language Annals 20. April 1987.
>
>Orlando Kelm. the Use of Synchronous Computer Networks in Second
>Language Instruction: A Preliminary Report. Foreign Language
>Annals 25. 1992
>
>Ken R. Lunde. Using Electronic Mail as a Medium for Foreign
>Language Study and Instruction. CALICO Journal 7. March 1990.
>
>Lydie Meunier-Cinko. Interactive French Language Curricula of the
>Future: A Study of Computer and Video Potential. French Review
>66. Oct. 1992.
>
>Karen Smith. Collaborative and Interactive Writing for Increasing
>Communication Skills. Hispania 73. March 1990.
>
>
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