Graham Davies	Graham Davies: CV Updated 22 May 2012 I am a retired (Emeritus) Professor of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), but I continue to do occasional consultancy and training work in the area of ICT and language teaching and learning and I sit on a number of national and international committees. I also edit the ICT4LT website, a substantial set of ICT training materials for language teachers that I maintain as a labour of love. I am a partner in Camsoft, a business that develops and retails software for Computer Assisted Language Learning. A more succinct summary of my life, which also includes an audio recording about myself, can be found in my Wiki. If you are looking for my personal email address, I am afraid you won't find it anywhere at this site. I have had to remove it to prevent it being harvested by spammers. Please use my business contact form if you wish to email me: Contact Form.	I am a member of the EUROCALL/CALICO Virtual Worlds Ning

Age: I am a senior citizen. I have a free bus pass and I get excellent discounts on a round of golf at my local course and on my lift pass when I go skiing in Austria.

• Current activities
• Biographical landmarks
• Printed and online publications
• Microcomputer software
• Social activities
• Interesting ancestors and relatives

Current activities

• 1982- Partner, Camsoft: CALL software publishing house and CALL consultancy business:
  http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk
  
• 2001- Member of the Editorial Board of the ReCALL journal (EUROCALL & Cambridge University Press):
  http://www.journals.cup.org
• 2009- Joint coordinator (with Randall Sadler) of the EUROCALL/CALICO Virtual Worlds Special Interest Group (VW SIG): http://virtualworldssig.ning.com

Biographical landmarks

• 1953-1961: Maidstone Grammar School: 7 O-levels, 3 A-levels.
• 1964: BA Hons in German and French, Queen Mary College, University of London.
• 1965: PGCE (Teaching Qualification), Goldsmiths' College, University of London.
• 1965-1968: Researching for PhD, Queen Mary College, University of London. Title of thesis: A lexicon of tournament and heraldic terminology in Medieval German: 1150-1450.
• 1968-1971: Secondary school teacher (German and French), Tiverton Grammar School, Devon.
• 1971-1985: Lecturer in German, Ealing College/Thames Valley University (TVU).
• 1971-1976: Examiner (German), Institute of Linguists, London.
• 1976: Began researching and working in the area of new technologies and languages: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Machine Translation (MT) and Machine Assisted Translation (MAT).
• 1977-1979: Governor, Wessex County Infants School, Maidenhead.
• 1980: Began producing conference papers, articles and other publications on CALL and in the area of languages and information technology in general. First printed publication on CALL: "New technologies for linguists", Computer Age 9: 23-26.
• 1980-1982: Business Partner, Wida Software, London.
• 1980-1985: Member of the CALL group, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC).
• 1981: Consultant on CALL, Heinemann.
• 1981-1985: Assistant Editor, ALLC Journal, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing.
• 1982: Founded Camsoft, a CALL software publishing house and CALL consultancy business.
• 1982: Beginning of numerous educational visits abroad in connection with new technologies and language learning and teaching: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA.
• 1982: Intensive Study Visit to Canada, financed by the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges. Studied the CLEF Project (Computer-assisted Learning Exercises for French). Consulted with Canadian CALL specialists at the University of Western Ontario and University of Waterloo. Gave guest lecture at University of Western Ontario: "Preaching to the unconverted: a personal report on five years' work in CALL."
• 1982: British Council Visiting Specialist. Gave paper at SACCE 82 (South African Congress on Computers in Education), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• 1982: Consultant on CALL, Longman.
• 1982: Consultant on CALL, Oxford University Press.
• 1982: Consultant on CALL, TV South, Southampton.
• 1982-1986: Governor, Cox Green Comprehensive School, Maidenhead.
• 1982-1990: Editor, Callboard newsletter, Ealing College, London.
• 1983-1985: Member of the German Language Working Party, The Open University.
• 1983-1993: Registered as Specialist in CALL, The British Council. Numerous visits abroad under the auspices of The British Council.
• 1984: Consultant on CALL, Language Training Centre, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Belgium.
• 1984: External Examiner, MA candidate, Chelsea College, University of London.
• 1985: Consultant on CALL, Duckworth (software publishers), Oxford.
• 1985: Keynote Speaker, South African Association of Language Teachers (SAALT) conference , University of Natal. Paper titled Computer Assisted Language Learning: a time for realism.
• 1985-1990: Director of the National Centre for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NCCALL), Ealing College/Thames Valley University (TVU).
• 1986: Consultant on CALL, Language Training Centre, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Belgium.
• 1986: Participated in the foundation meeting of EUROCALL, University of Liège, Belgium.
• 1987: Evaluator, Tovna Translation Machines, Israel.
• 1988: Consultant on CALL, Royal Army Educational Corps.
• 1988: Paper titled Repurposing a videodisc for French language teaching, Second International Symposium on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, 1988. Published in Kécskés I. & Agócs L. (eds.) (1989) New tendencies in CALL, Debrecen, Hungary: Kossuth University: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/Debrecen.doc
• 1989: Conferred with the title of Professor of Computer Assisted Language Learning, Ealing College/Thames Valley University (TVU).
• 1989: Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Wilhelm-Pieck University, Rostock, GDR. Paper published as "EXPODISC: an interactive videodisc package for learners of Spanish" in Buchholz E. (ed.) (1989) Fremdsprachenlernen mit Mikrocomputer und anderer Informationstechnik, Rostock: Wilhelm-Pieck University. Available on the Web at: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/expodisc.htm. My conference report titled "The week the Wall came down" can be found at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/berlin.htm
• 1989-2000: Member of the Advisory Committee, Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Modern Languages (CTICML), University of Hull.
• 1990-1991: Evaluator, ELNET project (European Business and Languages Computer Conferencing Network), Southampton Institute, funded by the Learning Technology Unit, UK.
• 1990-1993: Director of the Language Centre, Ealing College/Thames Valley University (TVU).
• 1990-1993: Member of the Language Centres Working Party, Standing Conference of Heads of Modern Languages in Universities (SCHML).
• 1991: Keynote Speaker, EUROCALL 91, Helsinki Wilhelm-Pieck University, Rostock, GDR. Paper published as "EXPODISC: an interactive videodisc package for learners of Spanish" in Savolainen H. & Telenius J. (eds.) Eurocall 91 proceedings, Helsinki: Helsinki School of Economics. Available on the Web at: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/expodisc.htm
• 1991-1996: Coordinator, East European CALL (EECALL) Centre project, Dániel Berzsenyi College, Hungary (TEMPUS/PHARE Programme, European Commission).
• 1992-2002: Member of the Management Committee, Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) Consortium, University of Hull.
• 1993: Keynote Speaker, CCALL2 Conference, University of Victoria, Canada. Paper published as "CALL in the New Europe: the spirit of cooperation" in Liddell P. (ed.) (1993) CALL: theory and application: proceedings of CCALL2/CCELAO2, the Second Canadian CALL Conference, Victoria, Canada: University of Victoria: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/CCALL93Paper.doc
• 1993: Consultant, Cox Green Comprehensive School, Maidenhead, on setting up a new multimedia language centre.
• 1993: Consultant, University of Limerick, Ireland, on setting up multimedia language centre.
• 1993-2001: Visiting Professor of CALL, Thames Valley University (TVU).
• 1993-1994: Consultant/Animateur, Council of Europe, Language Learning for European Citizenship Programme: New Style Workshop 7B.
• 1993-1997: External Examiner, University of Kent, MA in Applied Languages: Computing.
• 1993-2000: Founder President of EUROCALL.
• 1994: Consultant to The Open University on proposed new German language modules.
• 1994: External Examiner, MPhil candidate, Bradford University.
• 1994: External Examiner, PhD candidate, Bond University, Australia.
• 1994: Consultant, Lingua Bureau, DG XXII, European Commission. Survey of vocational language training incorporating the use of new technologies. Report published.
• 1994: Member of the Evaluation Panel, BA in Applied Languages, University of Limerick, Ireland.
• 1994-2000: Deputy Chair of the Management Committee, Centre for Information Technology in Language Learning (CITLL), Coventry University.
• 1995: Consultant on software development project, Teleste, Turku, Finland.
• 1995: Evaluator, research project proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada.
• 1995: External Examiner, PhD candidate, Griffith University, Australia.
• 1995: Contributor to National Seminar on Teaching Foreign Languages (English) in Belarus, Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus, organised with support from the Council of Europe under the Modern Languages Programme.
• 1995-1996: Consultant, Socrates Technical Assistance Office, DG XXII, European Commission.
• 1995-1999: External Examiner, University of Hull, MA in Applied Language and New Technologies.
• 1995- 2001 Member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the ReCALL journal (EUROCALL & Cambridge University Press):
  http://www.journals.cup.org
• 1996: Consultant, Oxford University Press.
• 1996-1998: Member of the Steering Committee, WorldCALL 98, University of Melbourne.
• 1996-1998: Member of the Scholarship Committee, WorldCALL 98, University of Melbourne.
• 1996-1999: Member of the Scientific Committee on New Technologies, Thematic Network Project (Languages), Freie Universität Berlin (Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission).
• 1996-1999: Member of the Policy Group on New Technologies, European Language Council, Freie Universität Berlin (initiated under Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission): http://www.celelc.org
• 1996-2004: Member of the Editorial Board, Language Learning and Technology, a WWW journal: http://llt.msu.edu
• 1997: Took part in Language Live, a BBC radio programme. Talked about using ICT and the Web for teaching and learning foreign languages.
• 1997: Consultant, Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission.
• 1997: External Evaluator, CD-ROM for intermediate learners of Portuguese, Universidade Aberta, Portugal.
• 1997: Member of the Validation Panel, Language Learning by Distance Mode, Southampton Institute.
• 1997-1998: Contributor, EUROCALL Directory of Courseware Development Projects, University of Hull (Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission).
• 1997-1998: Registered Evaluator, Telematics Applications Programme, DG XIII, European Commission.
• 1997-1999: Contributor, City Talk multimedia development project, Libra Multimedia, Windsor (Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission).
• 1997-1999: Contributor, DIALANG diagnostic language testing project, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission).
• 1997-1999: Registered Evaluator, Phare Distance Education Programme, European Training Foundation, European Commission.
• 1997-1999: Registered Evaluator, MLIS and INFO2000 Programmes, DG XIII, European Commission.
• 1997-2001: Academic Coordinator, Airline Talk multimedia CD-ROM development project, Thames Valley University (Leonardo Programme, DG XXII, European Commission).
• 1997-2002: External Examiner, University of Greenwich, MA in Management of Language Learning.
• 1997-2002: Member of the Board of the European Language Council, Freie Universität Berlin:
  http://www.celelc.org
• 1998: External Referee, GeniCALL research project proposal, Research Council of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
• 1998: Keynote Speaker, WorldCALL 98 Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia. Click here for details of my paper: WorldCALL 98.
• 1998-1999: Contributor, Teaching And Language Learning Enhanced by New Technologies (TALLENT) teacher training project, University of Limerick, Ireland (Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission).
• 1998-2000: Academic Coordinator, ICT for Language Teachers (ICT4LT) online training project, Thames Valley University (Socrates Programme, DG XXII, European Commission).
• 1998-2001: Registered Evaluator, Fifth Framework Programme (1998-2002), European Commission.
• 1999: Peer Reviewer, MALTED project, University College London (Educational Multimedia Taskforce Telematics Applications Programme and Leonardo Programme, DGXIII and DGXXII, European Commission): http://malted.cnice.mec.es/ingles/maltedproject.htm
• 2000: NOF trainer, CILT.
• 2000: External Examiner, PhD candidate, Southampton Institute.
• 2000-2003: Chair of the WorldCALL 2003 Steering Committee: http://www.worldcall.org
• 2000-2005: Series Editor (with Carol Chapelle), Language Learning and Language Technology, Swets & Zeitlinger (now taken over by Taylor & Francis):
  http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com
• 2000-2011: Member of the EUROCALL Executive Committee: http://www.eurocall-languages.org
• 2001: Consultant to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, HEFCE E-Languages "Language House" initiative.
• 2001: Keynote Speaker, Didascalia Symposium, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Paper titled "Working together: lessons to be learned in European collaboration".
• 2001-2002: External Examiner, University of Kent, MA in Applied Languages: Computing.
• 2002: Consultant, Coventry University, on setting up multimedia language centre.
• 2002: Consultant to the BBC on the German Steps online language course: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/
• 2002-2003: Consultant to the International Certificate Conference, Frankfurt, on an international survey carried out for the European Commission (DG E&C) on the impact of ICT on language learning and teaching. See the published report.
• 2002-2003: NOF Trainer, Learning Schools Programme: http://www.learningschools.net
• 2002-2005: External Examiner, University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), MSc in Computer Assisted Language Learning.
• 2003: Keynote Speaker, Scottish CILT Conference, "Inspiring your learners with ICT", University of Stirling. Paper titled "ICT and Modern Foreign Languages: learning opportunities and training needs".
• 2003: Interviewed by CNN on using ICT in language learning and teaching: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/12/biz.trav.learning.language/index.html
• 2003: External Examiner, PhD candidate, Monash University, Australia.
• 2003: External Examiner, PhD candidate, UMIST.
• 2003-2004: Consultant/Trainer: MELTEC (Multimedia Electronic Learning Technologies Education Centre), Kingston University, UK.
• 2003-2006: Evaluator, Linguanet Europa, a substantial online catalogue of language learning resources. This project has recently undergone expansion to incorporate an interface in a number of new languages and addressing in particular the needs of adult learners. It is now know as Linguanet Worldwide: http://www.linguanet-worldwide.org/
• 2003-2006 Chair of the WorldCALL 2008 Conference Planning Committee: http://www.worldcall.org
• 2004: External Examiner, PhD candidate, UMIST.
• 2004: External Examiner, PhD candidate, University of Southampton.
• 2004: Consultant, University of Reading, on setting up multimedia language centre.
• 2004: Member of the e-Learning Factory (ELF) team. The ELF team provides a range of courses and support facilities to enable organisations and individual teachers and trainers to make effective and appropriate use of ICT in their teaching and training programmes.
• 2004-2005: Contributing to teaching of the Technology and Language Teaching and Learning module, Institute of Education, London University, UK.
• 2004-2007 Member of the Advisory Board, Research Centre for New Media in Language Learning, Monash University, Australia.
• 2005: Keynote Speaker, UCALL Conference, University of Ulster at Coleraine. Presentation titled Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and where are we going? This is completely different from my Futurelab article bearing the same title.
• 2005: Consultant to the Department of Education and Skills on the production of e-learning training materials for teachers in further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and adult education colleges.
• 2005: External Examiner, PhD candidate, University of Manchester.
• 2006: External Examiner, MPhil candidate, University of Manchester.
• 2006: External Examiner, PhD candidate, University of Manchester.
• 2007: Keynote Speaker, Conference on e-Learning and Japanese Language Education, Oxford Brookes University: Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and where are we going? This was an update of my keynote first presented at the UCALL 2005 conference.
• 2007: University of Warwick, guest lecture: Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and where are we going? This was an update of my keynote first presented at the UCALL 2005 conference.
• 2008: Project evaluator, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg.
• 2008: Workshop Leader, Introduction to Second Life for Beginners, EUROCALL 2008 Conference, Hungary.
• 2008: External Examiner, PhD candidate, University of Ulster.
• 2008-2010: External evaluator, Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning (CEMLL), University of Ulster.
• 2009: External Examiner, PhD candidate, University of Essex.
• 2009: Presentation on Second Life, University of Portsmouth.
• 2009: Evaluator of MFL training materials being produced under the Learning Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) initiative.
• 2009: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Hubbard P. (ed.) Computer Assisted Language Learning, Routledge: London and NewYork.
• 2009: Consultant to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) on the production of e-learning training materials for teachers in further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and adult education colleges.
• 2009: Workshop leader, Engaging language learners with ICT, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds: PowerPoint slideshow.
• 2009: Workshop leader, Introduction to Second Life for Beginners, EUROCALL 2009 Conference, Spain, assisted by my wife Sally Davies.
• 2009: Keynote Speaker, Conference on Technology Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning, SOAS, London: Language Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds: PowerPoint slideshow.
• 2010: Workshop leader, Introduction to Second Life for Beginners, EUROCALL 2010 Conference, France, assisted by my wife Sally Davies. For more information on Second Life see Section 14.2.1, Module 1.5 at the ICT4LT website and my tutorial materials, Introduction to Second Life Viewer 2.
• 2010: Keynote Speaker at the EUROCALL 2010 conference in Bordeaux, France, 8-11 September 2010: Where are we now, where have we been, and where are we going? See PowerPoint Slideshow.
• 2011: External Examiner, PhD candidate, University of Kent.

• 2011: Keynote speaker, Institut Français, London: presentation on the History of Computer Assisted Language Learning as an introduction to a presentation and workshop on the French Digital Kitchen.
  

Printed and online publications

1980: "New technologies for linguists", Language Monthly 9, August 1980: 23-26. Available online at: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/Davies_Language_Monthly_1980.pdf

1980: "Learning German by Computer at Ealing College of Higher Education", CALNEWS 15: 5-8, CEDAR Project, Imperial College, University of London.

1981: "Learning German by computer at Ealing College of Higher Education". In Smith R. (ed.) Education and IT: Longman General Studies Project, York: Longman.

1981: (with Steel D.) "First steps in Computer Assisted Language Learning at Ealing College of Higher Education". Paper presented at the CAL 81 conference, University of Leeds, 8-10 April 1981. Published as part of an article, "Micros in Modern Languages", Educational Computing, October 1982: 30-31. Available online at http://www.ict4lt.org/en/Davies_Steel_1981.doc

1982: "Doing it yourself", EFL Gazette 37: 6-7.

1982: (with Steel D.) "First steps in Computer Assisted Language Learning at Ealing College of Higher Education", INTUS News 6, 1: 64-74, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

1982: "Authoring techniques and Computer Assisted Language Learning", INTUS News 6, 2: 46-57, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

1982: (with Higgins J.) Computers, language and language learning, London: CILT.

1984: "German and the micro", treffpunkt 16, 2: 20-25.

1985: "Computer assisted language learning: a time for realism", SAALT Journal 19, 3: 14-26, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg. South Africa.

1985: (with Higgins J.) Using computers in language learning: a teacher's guide, London: CILT.

1985: Talking BASIC: an introduction to BASIC programming for users of language, Eastbourne: Cassell.

1985: "Computers in modern language learning and teaching". In Wellington J. (ed.) Children, computers and the curriculum, London: Harper & Row.

1986: "In what ways has CALL improved over the last five years?" In Lancashire I. (ed.) Computers and the Humanities Conference Guide, Toronto: University of Toronto.

1986: "Authoring CALL courseware: a practical approach". In Leech G. & Candlin C. (eds.) Computers in English language teaching and research, London: Longman.

1986: "Using the computer in task-oriented language-learning activities" In Lesbats M., Frankel F., & Köchling M. (eds.) Triangle V: new technology and foreign language learning, Paris: Didier Erudition, AUPELF, The British Council, Goethe-Institut.

1987: "Programming languages, author languages and authoring packages", Bulletin CILA 46: 26-37, Commission Interuniversitaire Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

1987: "Latest trends in CALL materials", Bulletin CILA 46: 38-47, Commission Interuniversitaire Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

1987: "CALL: past, present and future", MLA Journal 68, 2: 68-78.

1988 "Using the computer to stimulate conversation". In Kühlwein W. & Spillner B. (eds.) Sprache und Individuum, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

1988: "CALL software development". In Jung U. (ed.) Computers in applied linguistics and language teaching: a CALL handbook, Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

1988: (with Staddon S.) "Perspectives de développement de l'ELAO", Cahiers de l'APLIUT, Sèvres, France.

1989: "Repurposing a videodisc for French language teaching". In Kécskés I. & Agócs L. (eds.) New tendencies in CALL, Debrecen, Hungary: Kossuth University. Available online at http://www.ict4lt.org/en/Debrecen.doc

1989: "CALL and NCCALL in the UK: past, present and future". In Smith W. Flint (ed.) Modern technology in foreign language education, USA: National Textbook Company, ACTFL Foreign Language Education Series.

1989: "EXPODISC - an interactive videodisc package for learners of Spanish". In Buchholz E. (ed.) Fremdsprachenlernen mit Mikrocomputer und anderer Informationstechnik, Rostock: Wilhelm-Pieck University. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/expodisc.htm

1991: "EXPODISC - an interactive videodisc package for learners of Spanish", Audio Visual Librarian 17, 1: 31-37. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/expodisc.htm

1991: "Fun with Texts Version 2.0". In Holzmann C. & Peters K. (eds.) Man and the Media IV: proceedings, Special issue of CALL Austria 15, Vienna: Verein CALL Austria.

1991: "EXPODISC - an interactive videodisc package for learners of Spanish". In Savolainen H. & Telenius J. (eds.) Eurocall 91 proceedings, Helsinki: Helsinki School of Economics. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/expodisc.htm

1992: "Computer Assisted Language Learning". In Embleton D. & Hagen S. (eds.) Languages and international business: a practical guide, Sevenoaks: Hodder & Stoughton.

1992: (co-edited with with Hussey M.) New technology in language learning: proceedings of the 1989 Man and the Media symposium, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main.

1993: "CALL in the New Europe: the spirit of co-operation". In Liddell P. (ed.) CALL: theory and application: proceedings of CCALL2/CCELAO2, The Second Canadian CALL Conference, Victoria, Canada: University of Victoria. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/CCALL93Paper.doc

1994: "New developments in computer assisted language learning", Education (Longman) 183, 17: 337.

1994: "That'll teach you", Helpware Magazine, Autumn 1994: 21-23.

1997 (updated 2011): "Lessons from the past, lessons for the future: 20 years of CALL". In Korsvold A-K. & Rüschoff B. (eds.) New technologies in language learning and teaching, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/coegdd1.htm. An abridged version of this article was also published in Kranz D., Legenhausen L. & Lüking B. (eds.) Multimedia, Internet, Lernsoftware: Fremdsprachenunterricht vor neuen Herausforderungen? Edition Volkshochschule Band 4, Agenda Verlag, Münster.

1997: (with Yu Hong Wei) "Do grammar checkers work?". In Kohn J., Rüschoff B. & Wolff D. (eds.) New horizons in CALL: proceedings of EUROCALL 96, Dániel Berzsenyi College, Szombathely, Hungary. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/euro96b.htm

1997: (with Bangs P., Burgess G., Harland M., James S., Sandford N. & Sousa C.) German Encounters CD-ROM, London: Hodder & Stoughton / University of Hull, The TELL Consortium. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/encounters.htm

1998: Introduction to Chapter 5, "Commercialisation". In Blin F., Chénik N. & Thompson T. (eds.) EUROCALL directory of courseware development projects, University of Hull: Lingua Project 96-01-CLI-0379-00. Available online at http://www.ict4lt.org/en/Courseware_Directory.pdf

1998: Exploiting Internet resources offline. Conference presentation, University of Ghent, Belgium. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/gdghent.htm

1998: "True creativity often starts where language ends". Keynote presentation, WorldCALL conference, University of Melbourne, July 1998. Available online at
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/worldgd1.htm

2000 (regularly updated): Editor-in-Chief / Contributor, ICT4LT: Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers, Slough: Thames Valley University: http://www.ict4lt.org. Printed version of Basic Level modules published 1999. Printed version of Intermediate Level and Advanced Level modules published 2000.

2000: Article on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Language Teaching and Learning (ed. Byram M.), London: Routledge: 90-93.

2001: "The history of EUROCALL", TELL&CALL 1/2001: 6-10. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/EuroHist.htm and also at the EUROCALL website: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/about/history.html

2001: (co-edited with Chambers A.) New technologies and language learning: a European perspective, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger (now taken over by Taylor & Francis).The first volume in a new series titled Language Learning and Language Technology, Series Editors, Graham Davies & Carol Chapelle.

2001: "New technologies and language learning: a suitable subject for research?" In Chambers A. & Davies G. (eds.) New technologies and language learning: a European perspective, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger (now taken over by Taylor & Francis).

2001: "Doing it on the Web", Language Learning Journal (ALL) 24: 34-35. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/DoingIt.htm

2002: "ICT and Modern Foreign Languages: learning opportunities and training needs", published in International Journal of English Studies 2, 1: Monograph Issue, New Trends in Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, edited by Pascual Pérez Paredes & Pascual Cantos Gómez, Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/needs.htm

2002: Article on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in the Good Practice Guide at the website of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS), University of Southampton. Available online at http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/61 and also, with updated links, at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/LLAS_Web_Guide.htm

2003: "Perspectives on online training initiatives". In Felix U. (ed.) Language learning online: towards best practice, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger.

2003: (co-edited with Fitzpatrick A.) The impact of Information and Communications Technologies on the teaching of foreign languages and on the role of teachers of foreign languages, EC Directorate General of Education and Culture. My contribution, relating specifically to the UK, is available onlline at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/ICC_Grahams_Report_Final.htm

2003: "Computer Assisted Language Learning: where are we now and where are we going?" published by Futurelab. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/Futurelab_CALL_Article.htm

2004: "Aspects of technology enhanced language learning: a UK perspective". In Fitzpatrick A. (ed.) Analytical survey: Information and Communications Technologies in the teaching and learning of foreign languages: state-of-the-art, needs and perspectives, Moscow: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. My contribution, relating specifically to the UK, is available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/UNESCO_Grahams_Report.htm

2005: (regularly updated): (with Bangs P., Frisby R. & Walton E.) Setting up effective digital language laboratories and multimedia ICT suites for Modern Foreign Languages, London: CILT. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/CILT_Digital_Labs.htm

2005: "Computer Assisted Language Learning: where are we now and where are we going?" Keynote paper first presented at the UCALL Conference, University of Ulster, Coleraine, June 2005. Regularly revised. Available online at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/UCALL_Keynote.htm

2006: "Computer Assisted Language Education". In Brown K. (Editor-in-Chief.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition), Elsevier: Oxford: Vol. 6, 460-470.

2009: Preface to Molka-Danielsen J. & Deutschmann M. (eds.) (2009) Learning and teaching in the virtual world of Second Life, Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway, ISBN: 9788251923538: http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/en/node/1195

2009: "New technologies and language learning: a suitable subject for research?". In Hubbard P. (ed.) Computer Assisted Language Learning, Volume I, 265-279. Routledge: London and New York: http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/callcc/. Originally published in Chambers A. & Davies G. (eds.) (2001) New technologies and language learning: a European perspective, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger.

Microcomputer software

1996: (with Bruzzone M.) GapKit 2.0 (authoring software), Camsoft, Maidenhead: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/gapkit.htm

1997: (with Bangs P., Burgess G., Harland M., James S., Sandford N. & Sousa C.) German Encounters CD-ROM, London, Hodder & Stoughton / University of Hull, The TELL Consortium.

2004: (with Bruzzone M.) Fun with Texts 4.0 (authoring software), Camsoft, Maidenhead: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/fwt.htm

Social activities

I enjoy an active life, playing golf (20 handicap) once a week, going downhill skiing once or twice a year, swimming three or four times a week and taking my greyhound for a one-mile walk once a day. I enjoy travelling and I can order a beer in fifteen different languages, but I would describe myself as fluent only in English and German. My French is tolerable and I can survive in Italian, Russian and Hungarian. I used to scuba-dive regularly, but I have little time these days. I did, however, manage to fit in a dive on the Great Barrier Reef in July 1998.

Interesting ancestors and relatives

I have a few interesting ancestors and relatives:

1. My paternal grandfather, Samuel Davies (Sam "Pont"), a coal miner in Maerdy, Rhondda Valley, was the right-hand man of the militant South Wales miners' leader Arthur Horner around the time of the General Strike of 1926. Arthur Horner was so left of centre that he was under constant surveillance by the security services. This probably explains why I failed to get into the diplomatic corps in 1968.

2. My maternal great-grandfather, David Davies, gained an entry in the 1976 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as being the "most durable coal miner", working underground for 73 years from 1849 to 1922 (aged 7 to 80). His portrait hangs in an art gallery in Moscow. It was painted by a visiting artist from the former Soviet Union.

3. I can just about claim to be a distant relation of Richard Burton. Richard Burton's first wife was Sybil Burton (née Williams), with whom I share an aunt, Gwyneth Davies (née Lewis). Gwyneth Lewis was the wife of my father Gomer Davies's brother, John ("Jack") Davies. Gwyneth's sister, Mabel Lewis, was Sybil's mother. The brother of Gwyneth and Mabel, Arthur Lewis (whom I always called "uncle"), was leader of the Black and White Minstrel Show at the Victoria Palace theatre in the 1960s. We often used to meet for a pint in the pub opposite the stage door. It is said that Sybil named her New York discotheque "Arthur" after Arthur Lewis, her favourite uncle. Sybil's elder daughter, Kate Burton (who is an actress), went to visit my aunt Lizzie ("Betty") Davies in Maerdy, Rhondda Valley, in 2004. Kate had been invited to attend the opening of the Millennium Centre in Cardiff and decided pay her a visit while she was in the area.

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