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Podcasts
Robert O'Dowd
 Listen to an interview with Robert O'Dowd, conducted by Mirjam Hauck at the EuroCALL conference 2010. Dr O'Dowd discusses his specialist area of research, telecollaboration in language learning, explaining amongst other things its usefulness in advancing learners' digital literacy and intercultural communication skills. He also talks about teacher training needs in this area, and how he thinks the field will develop. Mirjam Hauck is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the Department of Languages (Faculty of Education and Language Studies) at the Open University in the UK. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the use of technologies for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures covering aspects such as task design, tutor role and training, the affordances of the new media, and e-literacy skills. Her current research and publications explore the impact of mediation and the relevance of multimodal communicative competence on the development of intercultural communicative competence in online environments. She is a member of the EUROCALL executive committee, chair of the EUROCALL Teacher Education SIG, and a member of the CALICO executive board. | About Robert O'DowdRobert O'Dowd teaches EFL and Applied Linguistics at the University of León, Spain and is also the University’s Secretary for International Training. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has authored a book on telecollaboration – Telecollaboration and the development of intercultural communicative competence (Langenscheidt, 2006) – and has edited the volume Online intercultural exchange: An introduction for foreign language teachers (Multilingual Matters, 2007). He has also published on the topic in various academic journals. He has coordinated national and international projects about telecollaboration and has held two Eurocall Regional Workshops on telecollaboration and Computer Mediated Communication. |
Gary Motteram
 Listen to an interview with Gary Motteram, conducted by Nicolas Guichon at the EuroCALL conference 2010. In this podcast, Dr Motteram explains how he became involved in researching technology in language learning and teaching. He goes on to talk in-depth about issues surrounding teacher education and technology, including the use of Second Life as a meaningful tool for language learning. Nicolas Guichon is an associate professor at the University of Lyon 2 and belongs to the ICAR (Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations) research team. His research interests include teacher education in CALL and CMC, the study of online interaction and materials design. He has been part of the EUROCALL executive committee since 2009 and he is the secretary of the EUROCALL teacher education SIG. He is currently preparing a book on teacher education in CALL. | About Gary MotteramGary Motteram is a senior lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. He has an MEd in Teaching English Overseas and an EdD in e-learning. He set up and still runs a Master's in Educational Technology and TESOL, which is taught both on-site in Manchester and by e-learning. He has presented at conferences and published regularly in the fields of technology in language learning and technology supported distance education. He has recently managed a number of international projects for the University of Manchester including: eChinaUK and AVALON and ran a two year research project for Cambridge University Press exploring what teachers do with technology. |
Michael Handford
 Listen to a podcast in which Michael Handford is interviewed by his colleague, Petr Matous. Petr Matous is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo, specialising in infrastructure development and social networks. In this interview, Mike Handford talks about:
| About Michael HandfordMichael Handford is Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Tokyo, where he lectures on and teaches business English, institutional discourse, intercultural communication, discourse analysis and pragmatics. His areas of interest are business discourse, discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, genre, English as an international business language, and intercultural communication. He also works as a business communication consultant in Japan. He has published in the areas of corpus linguistics, professional discourse and English language teaching, and regularly attends and presents at international conferences. |
Susan Hunston
 'It's as if you've got a little house in your mind and occasionally you come across an idea that doesn't just move the furniture around, but it actually moves the walls and creates whole new spaces in your mind.' Listen to Susan Hunston as she talks about:
| About Susan HunstonProfessor Susan Hunston is Head of School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a wealth of experience working in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics and is author of numerous publications, including Corpora in Applied Linguistics. She was Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics until 2009, and is currently co-editor of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics series, with Carol Chapelle. |
John Field
 'I began to think about ways in which we might actually try to tackle the process of listening rather than just test learners on whether they had roughly understood a text.' Listen to John Field as he talks about his latest research, including:
| About John FieldJohn Field teaches psycholinguistics, child language and English grammar at the University of Reading, and he is also attached to the School of Education at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder of the BAAL Psycholinguistics Group, a member of the Advisory Board of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and a member of BAAL Executive Committee. He has taught at a number of UK universities and lectures widely on L2 listening and on the implications of psycholinguistics in second language acquisition. He has worked as a teacher trainer, materials writer and syllabus designer in many parts of the world and is the author of Listening in the Language Classroom, which won the 2008 Ben Warren International House Trust Prize. |
Regina Weinert
 'Spoken language is primary in human beings and to me it's therefore crucial to an understanding of the human capacity for language.' Listen to Regina Weinert as she talks about her background and research:
| About Regina WeinertRegina Weinert is originally from Hamburg, but moved to Scotland after leaving school and has been based in the UK ever since. She has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Hull and has been at the University of Sheffield since 1996, where she is Reader in Germanic Linguistics. Her research spans theoretical linguistics, general linguistics and theoretical and descriptive German and English linguistics, as well as language acquisition. Her recent work involves a comprehensive analysis of spoken language syntax, pragmatics and discourse. |
Rose Senior
 'Students want a teacher who knows their stuff, who is an expert in their field as a language teacher; but also they want somebody who can actually develop a relationship with them both individually and with the class as a whole.' In this podcast Rose Senior talks about 'becoming an expert teacher'.
| About Rose SeniorRose Senior is Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia. She has taught English in Colombia, the UK and Australia. She has published a number of articles in academic journals including ELT Journal and has a regular column in English Teaching Professional. She is the author of the award-winning The Experience of Language Teaching (2006), which describes communicative language teaching from the perspective of EFL, ESL and foreign language teachers. |
Andy Kirkpatrick
 'Learners need local models of English that are relevant to them.' Andy Kirkpatrick talks about models of English and their relevance to classroom teaching.
| About Andy KirkpatrickAndy Kirkpatrick is currently Head of the Department of English at Hong Kong Institute of Education and sits on the international editorial board of The New English Teacher. He is author of World Englishes, Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching (2007). From 1997–2005 he was Professor of Language Education at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He developed and wrote the World Englishes unit currently taught at Curtin. He is a specialist in "China English" who has taught in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as in Australia, England, Myanmar and Singapore. He was editor of English Australia Journal from 1999–2004. |
Vodcasts
Do Coyle
 'We've got to be looking at challenging learning and challenging learners.' Watch Do Coyle as she discusses aspects of CLIL:
| About Do CoyleDo Coyle has been Professor of Learning Innovation at the University of Aberdeen since summer 2008. Professor Coyle is an international expert in CLIL and has played a major role in the European movement associated with bilingual and modern languages education. She is a member of the international research group on learning strategies (IPOLLS), the European research group for CLIL (CLILCOM) and is guest editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. |
Rose Senior
'The book is about many, many aspects of classroom language teaching – not only the things that should go on, but the things that do go on on a daily basis, and how language teachers teach and manage their classes at the same time' Watch Rose Senior as she summarises her book, The Experience of Language Teaching, and answers the following questions:
| About Rose SeniorRose Senior is Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia. She has taught English in Colombia, the UK and Australia. She has published a number of articles in academic journals including ELT Journal and has a regular column in English Teaching Professional. She is the author of the award-winning The Experience of Language Teaching (2006), which describes communicative language teaching from the perspective of EFL, ESL and foreign language teachers. |