Teacher Education SIG Workshop 2010

http://europe.univ-lyon2.fr/teacher-education-in-CALL

EUROCALL’s Teacher Education Special Interest Group wishes to announce the following regional workshop for foreign language teacher trainers, foreign language educators and researchers:

"European workshop on teacher education in CALL: towards a research agenda"

The workshop will take place from 26-28 May, 2010 (Wed-Fri) at the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique (INRP) in Lyon.

Theme of the Workshop

During this 3 day workshop we will explore traditional and emerging methodologies in research on teacher education in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and computer-mediated communication (CMC). We will also look at popular areas of research in this field to date in order to find potential gaps and to establish how they can most effectively be addressed. In this context we will also consider practical, theoretical and ethical issues which emerge when we engage in pre- and in-service language teacher education/tutor training. Our aim is to take stock of the current state of affairs in research on teacher education in CALL and CMC-based language teaching and to propose a tentative research agenda for the next few years.
The workshop will take the following structure:

Guest presentations on some of the key theoretical approaches on teacher education in CALL and CMC-based language teaching
Presentations by participants in which they present and discuss with colleagues their own research findings to date and issues which emerged when researching in this area
Round table discussions where current and emerging methodological approaches areas in need of investigation and development can be discussed in greater detail

Profile of Participants

Participants should ideally be involved in research and practice in the field of foreign language teacher education for CALL and/or CMC-based language teaching.It is hoped that this workshop will be of particular interest to researchers and Masters/ Ph.D. students who are working in this area.

Call for Papers

We welcome proposals for 25 minute paper presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion) focusing on methodological approaches in CALL and CMC teacher education research. Submissions dealing with practical, theoretical and ethical issues in this area of research will also be considered, especially those dealing with innovative uses of established or leading-edge technologies.

Please submit a 300 word abstract (including a title) to the following mail address

m.hauck@open.ac.uk

by 26 February!

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out during the week beginning 22 March 2010.

We also kindly ask you to send us a short bio and (if possible) a thumbnail picture of you for the website (should your abstract be accepted), please.

Guest Speakers

Jean-Claude Bertin, Professor at Université Le Havre, France
Rick Kern, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, California (visiting scholar at INRP Lyon)
Gary Motteram, Senior Lecturer in Education at The University of Manchester, UK

Contact details

This event has been organised in collaboration with EUROCALL, the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, the INRP, Lyon 2 University and ICAR research team. A web-address with details about the programme, registration, travel, and accommodation, will be announced soon.

Mirjam Hauck
The Open University
Faculty of Education and Language Studies
Department of Languages
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
Phone: 00 44 1908 654252

Nicolas Guichon
Centre de Langues de Lyon 2
Laboratoire ICAR
15 parvis René Descartes –
BP 7000 69342 Lyon
Cedex 07 France
Phone: 00 33 472 00 99 84