EC-CALL Journal

An Electronic Colombian Computer-Assisted Language Learning Journal
From The Language Center UPB

A Review of CALL Related sites

ALT - the Association for Learning Technology

ALT is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. With over 200 organisations and over 500 individuals in membership, we:

represent and support our members, and provide services for them;
facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers;
spread good practice in the use of learning technology;
raise the profile of research in learning technology;
support the professionalisation of learning technologists;
contribute to the development of policy

CALL-EJ Online is a refereed professional journal on Computer-Assisted Language Learning and related fields. It is published biannually. It began publication in 1999 after CALL-EJ in Japan and On-Call in Australia joined together. CALL-EJ Online is now an international journal that welcomes contributions from around the world.

The JALT CALL Journal (ISSN 1832-4215) is an international refereed journal published from April, 2005. The Journal encompasses and builds upon the SIG newsletter, C@lling Japan, and is committed to excellence in research in all areas within the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning, while at the same time offering teaching ideas and suggestions from teachers’ personal experiences. The JALT CALL Journal is published three times a year: April, August and December.

The journal includes the following sections:

Regular Papers (full research papers)
Forums (including new ideas and teaching hints)
Reviews (these may be either software or book reviews)
C@lling Japan (including news and announcements, SIG officer reports, etc).

This site contains material from The Language Teacher, the monthly publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Zenkoku Gogaku Kyoiku Gakkai). The Language Teacher, or TLT as we usually refer to it, was first published under that name in April, 1984 (though its roots go back further. For a more detailed history, this article will be of interest). Since then it has continued without a break, and is proud of its place as the only monthly refereed language education journal in the world. This is even more remarkable given the fact that the staff (almost 40 people, plus advisory board members) are ALL volunteers!

Established in 1965, IALLT is a professional organization whose members provide leadership in the development, integration, evaluation and management of instructional technology for the teaching and learning of language, literature and culture. Its strong sense of community promotes the sharing of expertise in a variety of educational contexts. One of its regional groups is the SouthWest Association for Language Learning Technology (SWALLT), which offers an interesting newsletter.

IATEFL Poland
Computer Special Interest Group

Teaching English with Technology
A Journal for Teachers of English
ISSN 1642-1027

The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of Information and Communications Technology to support education and research.

JISC funds a national services portfolio (e.g. JANET) and a range of programmes (e.g. Digital repositories) and projects (e.g. NewsFilm online).
The JISC Technology Applications Programme (JTAP) offers an interesting point of view about the use of technology in higher education. They provide the article "A Framework for pedagogical evaluation of Virtual Learning Environments" which sheds light on the process of adapting or adopting a VLE into any institution.

Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education.

Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative
Institute for Computer Based Learning
Heriot-Watt University
Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland.
phone: 0131 451 3278 - fax: 0131 451 3283
e-mail: ltdi@icbl.hw.ac.uk

The Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative was funded between 1994 and 1999 by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to promote the use of learning technology and computer based learning materials in Scottish Higer Education. The LTDI web site will continue to provide free access to the resources and publications that LTDI created.

TESL-EJ began as the brainchild of a group of scholars who saw the need for a freely-distributed electronic academic journal. It has grown to become an internationally- recognized source of ESL and EFL information for people in scores of countries.

Our first issue was published in the spring of 1994, and contains an overview article by Editorial Board member Roland Sussex. Since then, we have published a wide array of articles and reviews, linking authors and readers on an international scale.

TESL-EJ is fully refereed--each article undergoes a review by at least two knowledgeable scholars. Our goal is to shorten the time from submission to publication significantly from what has become the norm in print journals. We aim for a decision in 6 weeks (although 'human factors' occasionally cause delays).

We hope to broaden our range of participation. We invite you to submit an article for consideration, to review a book, software, or website, or to serve as a reviewer for manuscripts that are submitted. If you cannot help in this way, we hope that you will share with us the mission of making TESL-EJ known throughout the world as a dynamic and reliable source of research and information in English as a Second or Foreign Language.

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