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Prof. Martha C. Pennington Powdrill Professor of English Language Acquisition, University of Luton, U.K.

Prof. Martha C. Pennington Powdrill Professor of English Language Acquisition, University of Luton, U.K. . Technology in TESOL. Some background info:. M.A. & Ph.D: Linguistics from Univ. of Pennsylvania

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Prof. Martha C. Pennington Powdrill Professor of English Language Acquisition, University of Luton, U.K.

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  1. Prof. Martha C. PenningtonPowdrill Professor of English Language Acquisition, University of Luton, U.K. Technology in TESOL

  2. Some background info: M.A. & Ph.D: Linguistics from Univ. of Pennsylvania Teaching: Univ. of Calif.-Santa Barbara; Univ. of Hawaii- Manoa; Nagoya Gakuin Univ.,Japan; Temple Univ., Japan; City Univ. of Hong Kong Currently:Univ. of Luton, U.K.

  3. Background nugget: From Preface, Phonology in English Language Teaching: “This text is the result of a fascination on my part, beginning in high school, with the study of language. It is no doubt significant for my interest in accents that when I was 13, my family moved from Jacksonville, Fla.,… a southern dialect area of the United States… to Nashua, N.H., located in a very different dialect area near Boston, in the extreme Northeast. I can still vividly recall being chastised by my seventh grade history teacher when, standing in front of the class to give a history report on Magellan, I rhymed route with out rather than with root.

  4. ITMELT 2001 presentation: June, 2001, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Innovation and Synergy in IT and ELT The marriage of information technology [IT] and English language teaching [ELT] is in one sense a natural partnership but in another sense an unnatural or uneasy alliance. It is a natural partnership in that IT expands informational resources and tools for language teaching, and the spread of IT and the English language are largely interlinked phenomena. It is on the other hand an unnatural or uneasy alliance in that there are some potential areas of conflict between ELT and IT, and the field of ELT - and education in general - is more conservative and slower to change than IT.

  5. Books • The Power of CALL (Houston, Texas: Athelstan, 1996) • The Computer and the Non-Native Writer: A Natural Partnership (Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 1996) • Writing in an Electronic Medium: Research with Language Learners (Houston, Texas: Athelstan, 1999). • A new work, Communication and the Human Experience: From Hoots and Howls to Talking Computers, is currently under consideration for publication.

  6. Communication and the Human Experience: From Hoots and Howls to Talking Computers. Basic ideas from Spring 2001 research report, (from Pennington’s abstract) The history of communication is described with broad brushstrokes as a series of changing forms, functions, and relationships between them, beginning with a pre-language age and progressing through the development of speech, writing, and electronic media.

  7. Writing in anElectronic Medium: Research with Language Learners New research studies carried out with mature language learners in second and foreign language instructional contexts. The computer medium of these qualitative and quantitative studies embraces word processing, email, and web pages. Topics: Word Processing and Beyond; The Effect of Peer Feedback; Investigating Academic Writing Online; Word Processing in the EFL Classroom; and Effects of Teaching of Revision Strategies in a Computer-Based Environment.

  8. New papers not yet out for a forthcoming book published by Barbara Kroll (CUP) on the teaching of writing (overview paper on computers and the teaching of writing for the collection) • Another paper under review by SYSTEM. • A book that discusses computers in relation to the history of language and communication • A grant proposal under review that would develop computer tools for analyzing Ph.D. students' writing problems. (It’s about time!) Current projects:

  9. Recent papers: • (1999) Computer-aided pronunciation pedagogy: Promise, limitations, directions.Computer Assisted Language Learning, No. 5, pp. 427-440 • 1996. Writing the natural way: On computers.Computer Assisted Language Learning, 9, pp. 23-38 

  10. More technology papers • (1995) (with F.S. Lam) The Computer vs. the Pen: A Comparative Study of Word Processing in a Hong Kong Secondary Classroom. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 8, 75-? • (1993) Exploring the Potential of Word Processing for Non-Native Writers. Computers and the Humanities, 27, p. 149

  11. On other topics (not tech stuff) • (2000). (authored with Nick C. Ellis) Cantonese speakers' memory for English sentences with prosodic cues. • (1999). Bringing off-stage "noise" to centre stage: A lesson in developing bilingual classroom data. • (1999). Framing Bilingual Classroom Discourse: Lessons from Hong Kong Secondary School English Classes. • (1998) Classroom Discourse Frames. Pp. 20

  12. Irrelevant (to this class), but interesting (to me): • (1998). The teachability of phonology in adulthood: A re-examination. • (1997) (with Jack C. Richards) Reorienting the Teaching Universe: The Experience of Five First-Year English Teachers in Hong Kong. • (1996). Cross-Language Effects in Biliteracy.Language and Education, 10, pp. 254- 286

  13. Thanks for listening It’s time to wake up again!

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