L2DL/AZCALL 2016: Digital Presentations

Digital presentations will be online October 3 to 8, 2016, with opportunities for asynchronous and synchronous exchange with the authors during these days. Abstracts for the following list of presentations are available on individual pages–click on the title in which you are interested. You can also download a complete list of titles with abstracts here.

PRESENTATIONS WITH BOTH ASYNCHRONOUS AND SYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSIONS. Synchronous discussion will be at time listed (Mountain Standard Time – note that Arizona does not practice Daylight Savings), and asynchronous comments and questions can be left anytime.

Monday October 3

Participant Positioning Strategies in Telecollaborative Tandem Exchanges. Brianna Janssen Sánchez (University of Iowa)
– Synchronous chat: Monday October 3rd, 11:30 am – Noon (MST)
Memes as a Digital Literacy Tool that has Motivational Role in ESL Classes. Mohamed Yacoub (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
– Synchronous chat: Monday October 3rd, Noon – 12:30 pm (MST)
Corpora in the Classroom: Activities for Teaching English as an Additional Language. Claudia Maria Pereira and Rossana da Cunha Silva (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
– Synchronous chat: Monday October 3rd, 2:30 – 3 pm (MST)

Tuesday October 4

Developing an EGAP Online Course: Are Japanese Digital Natives Ready? Parisa Mehran, Mehrasa Alizadeh, Ichiro Koguchi and Harou Takemura (Osaka University)
– Synchronous chat: Tuesday October 4th, 9 – 9:30 am (MST)
Facebook Guided Telecollaboration: Bringing Monolinguals into the Classroom. William Justin Morgan and Egemen Gun (The University of Alabama)
– Synchronous chat: Tuesday October 4th, 9:30 – 10 am (MST)
An English Learner Family’s Use of Information and Communication Technology at Home. Wyatt Brockbank (University of Iowa)
– Synchronous chat: Tuesday October 4th, 10 – 10:30 am (MST)
Intercultural Language Learning through Video Production. Nayara Nunes Salbego (Federal Institute of Santa Catarina) and Denise M. Osborne (University at Albany, SUNY)
– Synchronous chat: Tuesday October 4th, 10:30 – 11 am (MST)
Connected Learning: Using instructional techniques and digital tools to enhance language and content learning. Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm and Carolin Müller (The Ohio State University)
– Synchronous chat: Tuesday October 4th, 12:30 – 1 pm (MST)

Wednesday October 5

Professional Development on Integrating Digital Literacy into Adult English Language Instruction. Kathy Harris (Portland State University)
– Synchronous chat: Wednesday October 5th, 9:30 – 10 am (MST)
Digital Stories: Fostering the Development of English as a Foreign Language. Celso Henrique Soufen Tumolo (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
– Synchronous chat: Wednesday October 5th, 10 – 10:30 am (MST)
Enhancing Technology Use and Training in Foreign Language Instruction through the Technology Training Model. Yi Wang, Borbala Gaspar and Chelsea Steinert (University of Arizona)
– Synchronous chat: Wednesday October 5th, 12 – 12:30 pm (MST)

Thursday October 6

Intercultural Issues and Telecollaboration. Rodrigo Schaefer (Federal University of Santa Catarina)
– Synchronous chat: Thursday October 6th, 11 – 11:30 am (MST)

#InstagramELE: Learning Spanish through a Social Network. Pilar Munday (Sacred Heart University), Yuly Asencion Delaney (Northern Arizona University), and Adelaida Martín Bosque (CEA Study Abroad-University of New Haven)
– Synchronous chat: Thursday October 6th, 11:30 am – Noon (MST)
Teaching Discourse in Action: Realizing Multiple Literacies through Game-enhanced Pedagogies. Chantelle Warner, Kristin Lange and Diane Richardson (University of Arizona)
– Synchronous chat: Thursday October 6th, 12 – 12:30 pm (MST)
Distributed Language Learning in a World of Warcraft (WoW) Centered Course. Kristi Newgarden (University of Connecticut)
– Synchronous chat: Thursday October 6th, 12:30 – 1 pm (MST)

Friday October 7

Using Facebook for Telecollaboration: Fostering the Development of Intercultural Competence. Anastasia Izmaylova-Culpepper (University of Iowa)
– Synchronous chat: Friday October 7th, 9 – 9:30 am (MST)
An Instructional Technique to Visualize Writing Process for ELLs. Yoonhee Lee (Arizona State University)
– Friday October 7th, 9:30 – 10 am (MST)
Building a Bridge through CALL: A Case Study of L2 Heritage Learners and Non-heritage Learners of Mandarin Chinese in a Blended Learning Environment. Xuan Wang-Wolf (Arizona State University)
– Synchronous chat: Friday October 7th, 10 – 10:30 am (MST)

PRESENTATIONS WITH ASYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSIONS (comments and questions can be left anytime, and presenters will be sent notification to respond)

An Auto-Ethnographic Study on the Use of Apps for Language Learning. Antonie Alm (University of Otago)

An Online Module for Language Learning Strategy Literacy. Edie A. Furniss (University of Houston) and Julia Kleinheider (University of Houston)

Corpus Linguistics for English Majors and Digital Literacies. Charles Lam (Hang Seng Management College)

Gameplay Activities as L2 Learning Ecologies. Karim Shaker Ibrahim (Miami University in Ohio)

How Digital Games Can Assist Vocabulary Learning of English as a Foreign Language. Caroline Chioquetta Lorenset (Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina)

Telecollaboration: Planning and Assessment. Sara Villa (The New School)

Towards an Interactive Learning Environment in an Online Chinese Course—Preliminary Findings and Ongoing Challenges. Bailu Li (Purdue University)

Using Technology-enhanced Instruction in Teacher Education Programs. Kelly Moore Torres (The Chicago School of Professional Psychology), Meagan Caridad Arrastia-Chisholm (Valdosta State University) and Samantha Tackett (Florida State University)