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>Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:52:26 -0400
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>From: Julie Belz <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Call:  Telecollaborative Language Learning
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Call for Papers
2005 volume of the AAUSC

Title: Computer-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education

Co-editors: Julie A. Belz (Penn State) and Steven L. Thorne (Penn State)
Series editor: Sally Magnan (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Description of Volume: This volume provides a state-of-the-art
overview of telecollaboration, the application of global computer
networks to foreign (and second) language learning and teaching in
institutionalized settings. In telecollaborative partnerships
internationally-dispersed learners in parallel language classes use
internet communication
tools such as email, synchronous chat, threaded discussion,
video-conferencing, web logs (blogs), web telephony and/or video-chat
in order to support social interaction, dialogue, debate, and
intercultural exchange with expert speakers of the respective
language under study. The underlying rationale is to provide the
members of each of the parallel language classes with access to and
engagement with age peers who are expert speakers of the "foreign"
language under study. In sum, telecollaboration is characterized by
institutionalized computer-mediated intercultural communication for
the purposes of foreign language learning and the development of
intercultural competence.

The complete call, including relevant contact nfo is here:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/2005aausccall.html

with best, julie belz & steve thorne
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Julie A. Belz
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/homepage.html
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and German
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures;
Program in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies;
Affiliate, Center for Language Acquisition  http://language.la.psu.edu/
The Pennsylvania State University
311 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA  16802