Thank you to everyone who took a moment to cast your vote over the last couple of weeks to elect two new members of our executive board. The nominees receiving the most votes this year are:
Lisa Frumkes and Liudmila Klimanova.
Nominations are open for CALICO’s annual Access to Language Education Award. See the Awards Page for more detailed information about submitting a nomination as well as the past winners. Deadline March 16 to nominate for this year’s award.
Sessions reported to be by CALICOers at this year’s ACTFL conference:
https://calico.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CALICO-@-ACTFL2019.pdf
CALICO’s current president, Jon Reinhardt, would like to update you on some things going on with CALICO right now.
pdf version: President Letter Fall 2019
November 6, 2019
Dear CALICO members,
With most of us at least halfway through our Fall semesters, this letter is a bit later than usual, but better late than never.
We were all very saddened a few weeks ago to learn of the passing of Dr. Robert Fischer, the Executive Director of CALICO from 1997 to 2011. Bob’s legacy as a key player in the early years of CALL and his gift to us of this organization is something for which we will all be forever grateful. In 2013, CALICO members put together a Festschrift for Bob, which I recommend looking through for a first or second time to understand the role he played in our organization’s survival starting in 1997 (https://journals.equinoxpub.com/CALICO/issue/view/1919). We have also recently learned that Texas State has set up a scholarship in his honor for French students – more info on how to make a contribution will be forthcoming. There is no question that the decisions Bob made then led CALICO to where it is today, one of the world’s leading academic CALL organizations. May we all find inspiration and encouragement in the legacy of his leadership. We will have a tribute to Bob next Spring at CALICO 2020 in Seattle as well as in CALICO Journal.
Plans for CALICO 2020 are coming along. It will be an exciting conference, in a city that is a global center of technological innovation. The theme of the conference is ‘Global Realities’, a phrase reflecting the challenges and opportunities CALL faces in responding both to new technological developments like augmented, mixed, and virtual reality, as well as to a world where language learning is increasingly happening in informal, technology-mediated contexts. While the call for proposals is closed, we are planning a variety of events for conference goers that live up to our reputation as a conference that is educational, accessible, and enjoyable for students, newcomers, and seasoned CALL professionals and academics. If you have colleagues in schools, universities and community colleges in the area, encourage them to attend and tell their students. We have a number of grants for students to attend.
While I’ll share more about conference specifics in the Spring newsletter, if you are the type who starts planning early, please do consider staying at the conference hotel, the Renaissance Seattle (a Marriott hotel). As we did last year, we have a certain number of rooms we have to fill, so we ask that conference goers stay there if it is at all possible. Closer to the conference, we will make possible to find a roommate so you can share the cost of a hotel room if you wish to do so.
CALICO will be well-represented at ACTFL 2019, this November 22-24 in Washington, DC. For those of you who will be attending, we are in the process of putting together a list of presentations that will be delivered by CALICO members at ACTFL, so we can learn from and support each other. Check your email in the next week or so for that information, and mark your calendars accordingly. (If you are presenting and haven’t already shared your information and would like to, please provide your information by Friday, November 8 here: https://forms.gle/JhpWtGqSfL4V1Gbb6 )
Also, if you’ll be at ACTFL, please mark your calendars for a CALICO meeting on Friday 11/22, at 5pm in the Marriott Marquis DC Cherry Blossom Room – this is a time slot we are granted by virtue of being “Organizational Members” of ACTFL. Please plan on attending this session if you can, and – most importantly –
bring a friend who isn’t a member of CALICO! We are trying to increase awareness of CALICO among ACTFL-goers, and we all know that technology is a popular topic at ACTFL. (In fact, there are 344 sessions that have been tagged with the “Innovative Use of Technology” keyword, not to mention some 75+ sessions that have the word “technology” in their title!). So this is a great opportunity to make sure folks are aware of our organization. The meeting will consist of a short introduction to CALICO, with a trivia quiz (and prizes!), and we will go from there to an impromptu happy hour in High Velocity bar, in the same hotel.
In other developments, we are working on coming up with new means of increasing CALICO membership, including offering new services and products that are exclusive benefits for CALICO members. We think there is space for us to build on our reputation and experience as an organization that does an excellent job at academic professionalization and networking, especially for graduate students and scholars building their careers. As experts in CALL, our membership has much to share with each other, including mentorship and both scholarly and practical knowledge. Some of the ideas for new membership benefits include an additional book series, issue briefs, a shared syllabus/materials bank, a mentorship program, virtual class visits, and consulting services. To raise the organization’s profile and boost membership, we’re thinking of developing and offering conference plenary videos, video-based app reviews, and podcasts and videos on popular CALL topics as freely available. If any of these ideas speak to you and you’d like to be involved in their development, please contact me directly. As with any volunteer organization, long term success of any new service or product depends on the commitment, time, and energy of devoted members.
If you’d like to nominate yourself or someone else for incoming Vice-President (to eventually become President and then Past President), or to serve on the Executive Board, please do. More information is available at our website : https://calico.org/call-for-nominations/.
Finally, if you’re on social media, please like and follow CALICO’s Facebook page, and join the group pages for the Special Interest Groups. They’re all pretty active, and some also offer regular newsletters. It’s a great way to get involved, network, and contribute to what makes CALICO the best professional organization around.
Have an excellent ending to the semester and year.
Best,
– Jon Reinhardt
Nomination period open for electing new executive board members and vice president.
The deadline for submitting nominations for either position is December 6th. Please send all nominations to Esther Horn at ec06@txstate.edu. We will be electing two new board positions and one vice president.
Guidelines for Executive Board nominations:
* Nominee must be nominated by a CALICO member, including self-nomination.
* Nominee must have been a member of CALICO at least two years (consecutive years not required).
* Nominee should submit a 100-word biographical sketch and 300-word professional statement to be used on the ballot during the election.
* Nominee must agree to attend all executive board meetings taking place during his/her active three-year term, which begins the last day of the annual conference following his/her election to office.
Vice President nominations:
The Vice President, when elected, will serve a 3-year term: Vice President, President, and Past President.
The qualifications and procedures for Vice Presidential candidates include:
* Candidates for Vice President must have been members of CALICO for at least the last two consecutive years before the year of nomination.
* Candidates must be nominated by a CALICO member, including self-nomination.
* At the time of nomination, nominees will submit a short biographical sketch of no more than 100 words and a professional statement of no more than 300 words to the CALICO office.
* Because the Vice President shall serve as a voting member on the Board for a period of three years, candidates must commit to working closely, for the subsequent three year period, with the CALICO Administrator, the staff, the other Voting Officers, and the Executive Board, to ensure the effective functioning of CALICO on a day to day basis. Candidates must plan to attend all board meetings and annual conferences. Although the newly elected Vice President’s term of office does not officially begin until the day before the end of the subsequent annual conference, the newly elected Vice President is encouraged to attend the board meetings in the year of election.
For an overview of duties/responsibilities of these positions, please see this page online. Please get in touch if you should have any questions.
Editors: Gillian Lord (University of Florida) and Sébastien Dubreil (Carnegie Mellon University)
Series Editors: Bryan Smith (Arizona State University) & Ana Oskoz (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
The editors of the 2021 Special Edition of the CALICO Journal seek contributions on diverse approaches to second language and culture (LC2) learning, focusing specifically on learning through “maker culture,” or the process of multimedia project creation or other creative activity that bridge language learning in the classroom with authentic language practices outside of it. Volume contributions will address theoretical, empirical and pedagogical approaches that connect classroom instruction to the multifaceted contexts and challenges of language use beyond the classroom. We encourage contributions that situate opportunities for motivated, purposeful technology-mediated communicative (social) interaction as a central organizing principle of LC2 study, with the goals of fostering language production and/or cultural awareness, while promoting their use in real and realistic interdisciplinary contexts.
Content areas for contributions include – but are not limited to – the following:
A. Theoretical considerations for the implementation of “maker culture” in LC2 learning contexts;
B. Empirical research assessing the effectiveness of a “maker” approach to L2 development and (inter)cultural learning; or
C. Practice report of pedagogical interventions leveraging the “learning through making” approach, providing evidence of learning.
This special issue will strive to maintain the format of past CALICO Journal Special Issues while also supporting diverse contribution formats. We encourage full-length (approximately 6,000–8,000 words, all inclusive) conceptual/theoretical contributions and empirical studies (e.g., mixed methods, case studies, action research), as well as shorter contributions (approximately 4,000 words, all inclusive) detailing pedagogical interventions that address theme(s) or projects relevant to the volume. Authors are encouraged to contextualize their contribution within appropriate theoretical and developmental frameworks.
Submission deadline for abstracts is September 1, 2019.
Third edition to the popular books Calling on CALL…
Engaging Language Learners through CALL
From Theory and Research to Informed Practice
Edited by Nike Arnold and Lara Ducate
Nike Arnold is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University in Oregon, USA.
Lara Ducate a Professor of German and Applied Linguistics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, USA.
2019 444pp 234 x 156mm Illus. pb ISBN 9781781798287
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Engaging Language Learners through CALL provides an updated overview of the field of computer-assisted language learning beginning with one chapter on the intersection of second language acquisition (SLA) research and CALL and another on online and hybrid language courses. The next eight chapters focus on the use of CALL for specific language skills or other learning goals and the volume concludes with a discussion of ways to evaluate courseware and apps. Each chapter contains preview questions, an overview of the most relevant and recent research, implications for teaching, assessment options, questions for reflection, case studies, and ideas for action research.
While the fundamental lens for this volume is informed practice based on key theories and research, there are several themes that run throughout the chapters, including how technology creates unique learning opportunities and its ability to overcome constraints of time, space, and interlocutors, how CALL can facilitate the integration of applications originally developed for other purposes, and the high level of autonomous and student-centered activities that CALL provides. As these themes demonstrate, CALL provides an array of affordances and sometimes, challenges. It is our hope that this volume will continue to support readers in implementing a research-based CALL pedagogy and updating their practices as technology and research findings develop.
Contents
Introduction – Nike Arnold, Lara Ducate
Teaching – Senta Goertler
Maribel Montero Perez
Steven L Thorne
– Mary Grantham O’Brien
Christopher L. Holden, Stephanie Knight
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