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Updated 2007-01-10
New: Article from Gakuen Journal: Tolstoy, the Hacker Ethic, Gendai GP and Education.
Please feel free to copy and use these publications if you attribute them and email me about it. If you reprint more than a couple of paragraphs, just e-mail me and I can give you written permission (this is just to know where this stuff has been published). Thanks. Hope you find these helpful.
(More recent stuff: Power Point notes on 3 presentations
in
reverse chronological order
|
Topic/Title |
Type |
Date |
Organization |
Description |
|
Kid
Stuff: Children’s Software |
Journal
Article |
3/96 |
Algorithmica Japonica (Tokyo
PC) |
Review
of Children’s software for language learning. For Tokyo PC User’s Group
(150 people studying computers). |
|
Voice
Recognition |
Journal
Article |
7/96 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Feature
article for Computer Special Interest Group of JALT. Theoretical background
to Voice recognition (how computers can “understand” human voices)
and applications to language teaching. |
|
See
it, Hear it, Say it! |
Journal
Article |
7/96 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Review
of new voice recognition software and its application in class and
individual settings. |
|
Dynamic
English |
Journal
Article |
10/96 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Review
of course software for integration of voice recognition and its use
for language learning. |
|
Soft
Cover: CALL in the News |
Journal
Article |
5/97 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Review
of various magazine article on the topic of computers in language learning. |
|
Triple
Play Plus! |
Journal
Article |
5/97 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Review
of language learning software. |
|
Eibun
Denshi Mail |
Book |
8/97 |
Nihon
Keizai Shinbun |
Co-authored
text with CD-ROM on how to write email in English. Includes strategies
for writing email in many business situations. CD-ROM includes email
samples. |
|
Soft
Cover 2 |
Journal
Article |
10/97 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Review
of a collection of magazine and news article about computers in language
learning. |
|
Computers
Slammed in Summer |
Journal
Article |
10/97 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Opinion
on technology in education. Backlash against computing in education
is unwarranted and illogical. |
|
Using
Search Engines for Academic Research |
Journal
Article |
10/97 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Proceedings
of Chubu Conference (see directly above) and write-up of presentation
with additional specifics. Links to WWW web pages. |
|
Computaa
literacy |
Journal
Article |
5/97 |
Shi-ritsu
daigaku Kyouiku Kai |
Proceedings
article of presentation immediately above. |
|
The
Language Teacher |
Journal Article |
2/98 |
JALT |
Voice
recognition and CALL, state of the art for language teachers. |
|
C@LLing Japan |
On-line
Journal |
3/98 5/98 10/98 |
JALT
CALL NSIG |
Editor
of first on-line journal for JALT, with columns and news, opinions
and reviews. http://jaltcall.org/cjo/.
Three issues total. |
|
Reviews
of CALL Literature |
Series
of short articles |
5/98 |
CALL
SIG (JALT) |
Reviewed
the following books for a glimpse of the state of the art of CALL:
|
|
The
Third Culture |
Book
Review |
5/98 |
CALL
SIG newsletter |
John
Brockman brings together leading scientists and philosophers to answer
questions traditionally posed by literature. |
|
The
Computer and the Non-Native Writer |
Book
Review |
5/98 |
CALL
SIG newsletter |
Martha
Pennington has written the best book on using computers to teach writing
in EFL. |
|
Azar
Interactive |
Software
review |
5/98 |
CALL
SIG newsletter |
Software
to accompany the popular text about English grammar. |
|
Sex,
Literacy and Computers |
Article |
10/98 |
CALL
SIG newsletter |
Psychobiological
brain differences between sexes and how that affects right-brain processing
of information and computer use. |
|
The
Future of Cyberliterature |
Article |
10/98 |
CALL
SIG newsletter |
New
literary forms with computers, using hypertext and virtual reality.
An exploratory look. |
|
Who
Owns the Process? |
Article |
10/98 |
College
and University Educators |
Professor
David Noble of York University in Toronto has been writing on the “commiditization” of
education through technology. This is my response. |
|
Speech
Recognition for Language Learners |
Article |
11/98 |
Teachers,
Learners and Computers; Exploring Relationships in CALL. |
Article
number 21 out of 25 in a collection of research on topics related to
CALL. Here I discuss how Speech Recognition technology works, and how
it will change language teaching. |
|
DEEP
EFL |
Web-based
language courseware |
10/99 |
Tokyo
Metropolitan Government |
Through
eigoMedia, a software developer, I wrote the entire content of an ESP
English course that is now online. Printed out, it comes to some 600
pages. Interactive features develop understanding of technical passages
gradually. |
Following are abstracts from publications selected from above with links to their full text. Please remember to use the bibliography entry listed at the top of the article's full text.
Multimedia to enhance
language learning for children.
The explosive growth of computers and multimedia software offers another tool to EFL teachers. This tool allows students to take charge of their own language acquisition outside of the classroom. Knowledge of this new media is important for teachers so that they may effectively use it both as a supplement to their regular course offerings and guide students in home use of purchased software. This paper discusses EFL student interaction with computers, the role of the instructor in this interaction, and explores criteria for evaluating multimedia software for supplementary language education. Click here to see the entire paper. Citation: Ryan, K. 1995. Multimedia Software and Language Learning, Gakuen, X, x-x (Showa Women's University, Tokyo ISSN X)
For JALT Tokyo Fall Conference, November 1993 (presentation notes). Discusses Typical student profile in language class, Anderson's (1993) four categories of communicative style for Japanese students, what "Classical" Japanese teachers of English believe, the History of computing in language instruction, Makrakis' hypotheses of self-perceived computer efficacy, Button's (1990) argument that computers cannot engage in conversation and the rules of conversation that have been discovered by conversation analysis (Heritage, 1984). Click here to see the notes. Citation: Ryan, K. 1993. The Japanese Student, the Computer and Language Learning, http://kevinryan.com/research/jsc.html
Published in Proceedings of The National Conference on Computers and Composition, 1993, Nagoya, Japan (1994).
ABSTRACT: Viewing hypertext (or hypermedia) as a literary device instead of a computer application enables a much more flexible use of technology to set up a situation that requires cooperation among students to complete a class project. Hypermedia is seen as a new way to organize thoughts, and is usually used in education for presentation of material, but with limited results in language classes. Involving the students in creating a hypertext (inter)actively increases their awareness of traditional organization of the writing process and its alternatives. There is an added advantage of forcing same-L1 students to interact in L2 to adequately complete the project. Click here to see full text. Citation: Ryan, K. 1994. Cooperative Writing in a Hypertext Environment. In X (ed) Proceedings of The National Conference on Computers and Composition, Nagoya: Japan Association of Language Teaching, Computer Assisted Language Learning National Special Interest Group.
Published in Gakuen, 1999
A discussion on how digital interface is effecting how literature is handled. Click here to see the full text.
Published in Gakuen 2000. For full text, click here.