Online World Language Instruction Training and Assessment: An Ecological Approach - Paperback

by Carmen King Ramírez (Author), Barbara A. Lafford (Author), James E. Wermers (Author)

This new guide provides a much-needed critical pedagogical approach to computer-assisted language learning (CALL) teacher education (CTE). By combining best CTE training and evaluation practices with assessment tools to address all facets of learning online, the authors explain how teachers can use technology to build successful online programs.

Author Biography

Carmen King Ramírez is an associate professor of Spanish and the director of the Online Spanish Program at the University of Arizona. She has published work on CALL and languages for specific purposes, designed and launched numerous online Spanish programs, and hosts the academic podcast series, World Languages 21. She coedited the volume Transferable Skills for the 21st Century: Preparing Students for the Workplace through World Languages for Specific Purposes with Barbara A. Lafford.

Barbara A. Lafford is a professor emerita of Spanish at Arizona State University who has published widely on CALL, Spanish sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and languages for specific purposes. She has coauthored, edited, or coedited fourteen volumes, including Spanish Second Language Acquisition and The Art of Teaching Spanish (both published by Georgetown University Press).

James E. Wermers is a clinical faculty member in the humanities at Arizona State University and formerly coordinated training, development, and deployment of digital pedagogy and initiatives in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts.