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Teacher Education in Call - Philip Hubbard, Mike Levy. Training teachers for the multimedia age: developing teacher expertise to enhance online learner interaction and collaboration - Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching - Volume 3. Educating the CALL specialist - Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching - Volume 3. Recent years have seen a growing interest in technology in language teacher education, including the publication of two edited volumes, the creation of special interest groups in both the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium and European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, and a technology standards initiative for language teachers and learners by teachers of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). Building on that rising interest in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) education, this article looks at a domain of expertise in CALL beyond that of the typical classroom teacher: the CALL specialist.

The article begins by motivating the concept of the CALL specialist, defined as an institutional role embodying deep knowledge and elaborated skill sets in language learning and technology applications within a given subfield. Keywords Related articles View all related articles. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching - Volume 3. A Rationale for Teacher Education and CALL: The Holistic View and. Buy & download fulltext article: Abstract: In a paper written in 1987 entitled ``Computers and the Humanities Courses: Philosophical Bases and Approaches'' Nancy Ide put forward two views on teacher education in humanities computing, the ``Expert User's View'' and the ``Holistic View''. Ide's two views are derived from the collective opinions given by members of a workshop on teaching computing and humanities courses.

In this article the degree to which Ide's two Views can be substantiated in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is explored, through a review of the literature and through an international survey on CALL materials development conducted by the author in 1991 (Levy, 1994). Keywords: IT concepts; computer-assisted language learning; education Document Type: Regular Paper Affiliations: Centre for Language Teaching and Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia e-mail: mlevy@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au Publication date: January 1, 1996.