
Research Interest






Linguistics
English and American Literature
Translation Studies
Computer Assisted Language Instruction
Integrating Technology into Learning
Brain-research and Language Acquisition
Learning Theories
Research-based Instruction
Curriculum Design
Alternative Assessment
Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
Educational Psychology
Educational Leadership
Articles
Writing Matrix, an Experience of the English Virtual Community Using Web 2.0
This article describes the experience of a group of members of an Argentinean electronic discussion list interested in practicing the English language and developing their knowledge about Web 2.0 (blogging, tagging, RSS, bookmarking).
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Book Review: Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills
Frank Smith reviews Swales and Feak’s Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills (2nd ed.) from the perspective of a Legal English instructor.
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Sally Jacoby (1949-2007): Her Contribution to LSP Needs Assessment
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A Case of Indigenous Assessment Criteria
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The Electronic Village Online: The Coordinator, Moderator, and Participant—Go Team!
Paula Emmert introduces the eighth year of the Electronic Village Online. With contributions from Dr. Helaine Marshall, Paula describes this successful event’s essential components: the coordinators, the moderators, and the participants.
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CALLIS Goes the Distance
This article describes the 2007 “Teaching With PowerPoint” session in the Electronic Village Online (EVO). It explains the focus, the training schedule, and the schedule of the EVO in 2007 and 2008, and provides links for learning more.
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Making Connections
Suzan Stamper interviews three more CALLIS members: Andy Bowman, Dafne Gonzalez, and Paula Emmert.
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Volunteer Opportunities at TESOL 2008: CALL Electronic Village
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Call for Articles
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Statement of Purpose
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CALLIS 2008-2009 Community Leaders
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More Articles
Applying collaborative and e-learning tools to military distance learning: A research framework.
Diagram-mediated Collaborative Learning Diagrams as tools to provoke and support elaboration and argumentation
A Constructivist Method for the Analysis of Networked Cognitive Communication and the Assessment of Collaborative Learning and Knowledge-Building.
Computer-Supported Collaborative Argumentation: Supporting Problem-based Learning in Legal Education
Bridging Gaps Between Cultures, Classrooms and Schools : A Close Look at Online Collaborative Learning.
Collaboration for Success in Open and Distance Education: A Case Study of Australia and Hong Kong.
The Circle of Learning: Individual and Group Processes
Computer-Supported Collaborative Problem Solving in the Home Environment
Concept Mapping as a Collaborative Tool for Enhanced Online Learning
Facilitating Interaction in Computer Mediated Online Courses
Coaching Collaboration by Comparing Solutions and Tracking Participation.
The OSEL Taxonomy for the classification of Learning Objects.
Contrasts in learning: a collaborative evaluation by practitioners and students.
Exploring Collaborative Online Learning
Enabling Novel Methodologies to Promote Virtual Collaborative Study and Learning in Distance Education.
Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams.
Networked Learning.
Collaborative Multimedia Development Teams in Higher Education.
Virtual Collaborative Learning: A Comparison between Face-to-Face Tutored Video Instruction (TVI) and Distributed
Tutored Video Instruction (DTVI)
Computer-supported collaboration in argumentative writing.
Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls and Payoffs
Effective Strategies for Cooperative Learning
Interoperability in Asynchronous Collaborative Learning Forums.
Critical thinking, cognitive presence and computer conferencing in distance education.
Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education.
Developing an Asynchronous Learning Network.
Understanding and facilitating computer-mediated teamwork: A study of how norms develop in online learning teams.
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