- Measuring oral proficiency in distance, face-to-face, and blended classrooms
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...Ballester, Iowa State University
Although the foreign-language profession routinely stresses the importance of technology
for the curriculum, many teachers still harbor deep-seated doubts as to whet...
by Robert Blake, Nicole L. Wilson, Maria Cetto, Cristina Pardo Ballester
in Volume 12 Number 3, October 2008
- Reviewer acknowledgements
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...Ballester
Kwanghyun Park
Youngmin Park
Mark Pegrum
Jill Pellettieri
Carmen Perez-Llantada
Luke Plonsky
Anne Preston
Jim Ranalli
Jonathon Reinhardt
Tom Robb
Audrey Roberson
Kevin Rooney
Su...
in Volume 21 Number 1, February 2017 Special Issue on Methodological Innovation in CALL Research
- From the editors
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...Ballester examines the
case of Spanish Without Walls, a first-year language course in hybrid and distance-
learning formats. The results from classroom and distance-learning students indicate that
c...
by Dorothy Chun, Irene Thompson
in Volume 12 Number 3, October 2008
- Review of Teaching language and teaching literature in virtual environments
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...Ballester-Roca explain that participants created a book trailer for children or young adult
books which enabled teachers to integrate information and communication technologies into the
classroom, a...
by Margherita Berti
in Volume 24 Number 1, February 2020
- Announcements and news from our sponsors
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...Ballester
Mark Pegrum
Ana Pellicer Sanchez
Carmen Pérez-Llantada
Elke Peters
Mark Peterson
Luke Plonsky
Robert Poole
Frederick Poole
Sabrina Priego
Grace Yue Qi
Manman Qian
M. Dolores Rami...
in Volume 25 Number 1, February 2021 Special Issue: Big Data in Language Education & Research
- 20 years of technology and language assessment in Language Learning & Technology
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...Ballester, 2008; Kenyon & Malabonga, 2001). The ability to automatically score oral performance
begins with recognition of speech. Yet, due to the developmental nature of learner speech, recognition ...
by Carol A. Chapelle, Erik Voss
in Volume 20 Number 2, June 2016 Special Issue of Special Issues: 20 Years of Language Learning & Technology
- Establishing an empirical link between computer-mediated communication (CMC) and SLA: A meta-analysis of the research
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...Ballester, 2008; Fitze, 2006; Heins, Duensing, Stickler, & Batstone, 2007), (b)
comparative discourse analysis of output produced by language learners in different CMC environments
(Böhlke, 2000; Li...
by Huifen Lin
in Volume 18 Number 3, October 2014
- Pronunciation development and instruction in distance language learning
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...Ballester (2008) investigated the effectiveness of an online Spanish course in improving
learners’ oral proficiency. Their study compared the level of oral proficiency of a F2F, online, and hybrid
c...
by Ines A. Martin
in Volume 24 Number 1, February 2020
- Self-study with language learning software in the workplace: What happens?
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...Ballester, 2008; Burwell,
González-Lloret, & Nielson, 2009). During P2, the Versant test was used as a pre-test for learners with
some Spanish proficiency at the outset of the research and as a post...
by Katharine B. Nielson
in Volume 15 Number 3, October 2011 Special Issue on Learner Autonomy and New Learning Environments
- Does the test work? Evaluating a web-based language placement test
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...Ballester, 2010; Shin, 2008).
It is important to point out that the present study is not the first to investigate the presumed practicality
and efficiency of web-based language placement testing in ...
by Avizia Y. Long, Sun-Young Shin, Kimberly Geeslin, Erik W. Willis
in Volume 22 Number 1, February 2018