• Resources, articles and reports
• Free program downloads

Resources, articles and reports

The following pages are regularly updated:

• Favourite Websites: My personal collection of annotated links to websites of interest to teachers and students of languages.
• ICT4LT: A large collection of online training materials and resources in ICT for language teachers, the outcome of an EC-funded project. I edit the English language section and update it regularly.
• Postgraduate courses in CALL: A list of links to university courses in CALL, regularly updated.
• The Internet: an introduction for language teachers: Camsoft monograph, regularly updated.
• The Internet: write your own WWW pages: Camsoft monograph, regularly updated.
• ICT and Modern Languages in the National Curriculum: some personal views: Camsoft monograph, regularly updated.
• INSET training materials in ICT for teachers of Modern Foreign Languages: Materials that I have written for to support training courses in ICT for language teachers. Camsoft monograph, regularly updated.
• Computer viruses: a cautionary tale: Essential reading for computer users. Camsoft monograph, regularly updated.
• Dodgy links: a warning to all webmasters maintaining lists of links to external sites: Camsoft monograph, regularly updated.

These articles are in chronological order, beginning in 1988:

• Repurposing a videodisc for French language teaching: Paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, 1988. Published as a chapter in Kécskés I. & Agócs L. (eds.) (1989) New tendencies in CALL, Debrecen, Hungary: Kossuth University. (Word DOC file.)
• The week The Wall came down: A personal report on the Rostock CALL conference, GDR, 1989. This is more of an eyewitness account of the fall of The Wall than a conference report: "Ich war dabei!"
• EXPODISC: Paper on an interactive videodisc project, presented at the EUROCALL 91 conference, University of Helsinki.
• CALL in the New Europe: the spirit of cooperation: My Keynote at the the CCALL Conference, University of Victoria, Canada, 1993. (Word DOC file.)
• Do grammar checkers work? (with Yu Hong Wei): EUROCALL 96 conference paper, presented jointly with my research student Yu Hong Wei, Dániel Berzsenyi College, Hungary.
• Lessons from the past, lessons for the future: Chapter in book, originally published by the Council of Europe in 1997. Revised in 2005.
• Exploiting Internet resources offline: University of Ghent conference paper, 1998.
• "True creativity often starts where language ends": My WorldCALL 98 Keynote, University of Melbourne.
• Four approaches to authoring CALL materials: My EUROCALL 98 Keynote, University of Leuven.
• History of EUROCALL: A brief history of Europe's leading professional association for CALL. I produced this to coincide with the EUROCALL 2000 conference. A copy is also stored at the EUROCALL website.
• Doing it on the Web: Published in Language Learning Journal (ALL) 24: 34-35, 2001.
• Article on Computer Assisted Language Learning in the Good Practice Guide at the website of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of Southampton, 2002. You can browse the guide by author name or subject or go straight to: http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=61. Also available here: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/LLAS_Web_Guide.htm
• 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, Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Murcia, Spain, 2002. An updated and abridged version of this article appears in Scottish Languages Review 8, June 2003, Scottish CILT: http://www.scilt.stir.ac.uk/SLR/index.htm
• Fitzpatrick A. & Davies G. (eds.) (2003) 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. The contribution by Graham Davies, relating specifically to the UK, is available in HTML format at http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/ICC_Grahams_Report_Final.htm
• Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and where are we going? Article published in 2003 at the Futurelab site: http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications_reports_articles/web_articles/Web_Article590. Also available here: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/Futurelab_CALL_Article.htm
• "Aspects of technology enhanced language learning: a UK perspective". In Fitzpatrick A. (2004) (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. Click here for my contribution, relating specifically to the UK.
• 2005: (with Bangs P., Frisby R. & Walton E.) Setting up effective digital language laboratories and multimedia ICT suites for Modern Foreign Languages, London: CILT: http://www.languages-ict.org.uk/managing/digital_language_labs.pdf
• Computer Assisted Language Learning: Where are we now and where are we going? My UCALL Conference Keynote, University of Ulster at Coleraine, June 2005. Revised 2007: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/docs/UCALL_Keynote.htm. This is completely different from my Futurelab article (above) bearing the same title.

Free program downloads

• A demo Fun with Texts can be downloaded from http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/fwt.htm - this page also includes information on materials designed to be used in conjunction with Fun with Texts.
• A demo of GapKit can be downloaded from http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/gapkit.htm
• A demo of MonoConc Pro 2.0 can be downloaded from http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/monoconc.htm

You need to unzip each of these downloads with a proprietary zip utility such as WinZip and then install them on your computer's hard disk.

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