30.1883, Confs: Applied Linguistics/Italy

Mon May 6 03:48:56 UTC 2019

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1883. Sun May 05 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1883, Confs: Applied Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 23:48:33
From: Caterina Pavesi [caterina.pavesi at unicatt.it]
Subject: CALLmi: Where are we going? International Symposium on Current and Future Trends in MALL and CALL 2019

CALLmi: Where are we going? International Symposium on Current and Future Trends in MALL and CALL 2019 
Short Title: CALLmi 

Date: 23-May-2019 - 24-May-2019 
Location: Milano, Italy 
Contact: Caterina Pavesi 
Contact Email: caterina.pavesi at unicatt.it 
Meeting URL: https://convegni.unicatt.it/call-mi-home 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Department of Language Sciences and Foreign Literatures and the Centre for
Higher Education Internationalisation of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
in Milan together with the EuroCALL MALL SIG are pleased to welcome you to an
international two-day symposium focusing on recent Computer-Assisted Language
Learning  and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning research and future
directions.

The symposium will be held at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in
Milan, Italy.

The symposium will focus on the latest research and practices in
technology-mediated language learning and explores perspectives for effective
technology integration in language teaching and learning in various
educational contexts globally. The emphasis will be on the intercultural and
pedagogical opportunities that technologies and what mobile devices in
particular can offer.  We will also cover the latest outcomes, challenges and
limitations of these in relation to language learning, also within the
perspective of the internationalisation of higher education. 

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Open University, UK
Prof. Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Topics:

- Technology-mediated language learning: Computer-Assisted and Mobile-Assisted
Language Learning, and Virtual Learning Environments
- Effective technology integration in language teaching and learning
- Intercultural and pedagogical opportunities, challenges and limitations
provided by technologies, virtual environments and mobile devices
- Virtual learning environments within the field of higher education
internationalisation (IHE)

Open to researchers, doctoral students, educators, teachers and teacher
trainers

Program:

Thursday 23 May 2019

9:00 - 10:00:
Workshop
Resources and strategies developed in selected EU projects Ton Koenraad -
TELLconsult, Netherlands

10:30 - 11:30:
Workshop
Hands on the MALL: innovation in action
Emilia Di Martino, Daniela Cuccurullo - Università Suor Orsola Benincasa,
Italy

11:30 - 12:00:
Effective Mobile Technologies for Class Presentations
Bruce Lander - Matsuyama University, Japan

12:00 - 12:30:
Mobile learning: exploring affordances of cellphone to encourage critical
thinking and student agency in language classroom.
Giselda Costa - Instituto Federaldo Piauí , Brazil

12:30 - 13:00:
A Smartphone Classroom: Digital Fantasy or MALL Reality?
James Selwood - Hiroshima University, Japan

16:00 - 16:30:
Antipodal communication between students of German in Finland and in New
Zealand
Vera Leier - Uppsala University, Sweden
Kirsi Korkealehto - Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland

16:30 - 17:00:
ETandem participants' perceptions and perspectives of intercultural and social
inclusion
Lisa Griggio, Edit Rózsavölgyi - Università di Padova, Italy

17:00 - 17:30:
Online special-interest communities for language learning and teaching:
YELL/TELL for English L2
Maria Bortoluzzi, Ivana Marenzi, Elisa Bertoldi - Università di Udine, Italy

17:30 - 18:00:
Effects of an extensive e-book reading programme on EFL secondary students
vocabulary learning
Valentina Morgana, Caterina Pavesi - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
(Milan), Italy

18:00 - 18:30:
Mobile Collaborative Activities and Learner Meta-Cognition
Peter Ilic - University of Aizu, Japan

Friday 24 May 2019

9:00 - 9:30:
Promoting language use through WhatsApp: A pedagogical intervention in an EFL
classroom
Maria Andria - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

9:30 - 10:00:
Using WhatsApp in the foreign language classroom: Effects on target language
use and learner experiences
Marrit van de Guchte - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

10:00 - 10:30:
MALL: What do we really know about it?
Jack Burston

10:30 - 11:00:
Social media use and socio-cultural adaptation among exchange students
Nicoletta Vittadini, Piermarco Aroldi - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
(Milan), Italy

11:30 - 12:00:
Shy, talkative or anxious? Linking anxiety and self-disclosure effects on
students interactions in virtual exchanges
Marta Fondo, Pedro Jacobetty - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

12:00 - 12:30:
Lessons Learnt on Virtual Exchange: The Experience of the English for
Internationalization Purposes (EIP) Project
Costanza Peverati - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia), Italy

12:30 - 13:00:
Can MOOCs impact upon the internationalisation of higher education? The case
study of ''Benvenuti in Italia! Orientarsi con l'italiano''
Antonella Valva - Università di Bologna, Italy

14:30 - 15:30:
Keynote Speaker: Michael Thomas - University of Central Lancashire, UK

16:00 - 16:30:
Extending language learning beyond the classroom through WhatsApp tasks
Àngels Pinyana - Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya Elsa
Tragant - Universitat de Barcelona

16:30 - 17:00:
Multilingual mobile learning and teaching at university level: students'
experiences of task-based teaching
Michele van der Merwe - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

17:00 - 17:30:
Corrective feedback in CALL: What role can it play in the development of the
simple past tense in English?
Jean Marguerite Jimenez - Università della Calabria, Italy

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