--- Forwarded Message from Christopher Jones <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:47:24 -0500 >From: Christopher Jones <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Master's in CALL at Carnegie Mellon >Originator-Info: login-token=Mulberry:01vbNw5SAd31P0Mb9cCDPnVBAQ5xFDHv3rFt1avSPjbg==; [log in to unmask] ------------------ All: The Department of Modern Languages and The Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh are launching a 12-month Master's program in CALL. The program will combine the strengths in second-language acquisition and courseware development of the Department of Modern Languages with the expertise in advanced language technologies of the Language Technologies Institute. The program is scheduled to begin in the Fall of 2001. The program includes instruction in how to design the learning sequence for a CALL program based in sound pedagogy, how to create the corresponding software, and how to use the latest language technologies to create new types of CALL interactivity. Students will learn the essential concepts of second language acquisition and will acquire practice in assessing CALL software. Students will carry a full load of courses in the Fall and Spring and complete a summer of supervised individual study enabling the student to complete a portfolio of software and related work. In special cases, students will be permitted to enroll on a part-time basis. Rather than comprehensive exams and a thesis, each student will complete and assess a major project, for example: an instructional module based on a functional/ grammatical focus, with new media, hand-coded interaction and end-user tracking, with preliminary data compiled from multiple subjects illustrating instructional efficacy. Maxine Eskenazi of the LTI ([log in to unmask]) and I will be directing the program. We will be happy to answer questions which might arise after a visit to the program web site at: http://www.cmu.edu/call Please forward this message to those of your students who might be interested. Regards, -Chris Christopher M. Jones, PhD Principal Lecturer in French / Director, Language Learning Resource Center mail: Baker Hall 160, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 tel: 412-268-5065 fax: 412-268-1328 e-mail: [log in to unmask]