School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences

Trinity College Dublin

New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice:
The Second Conference on Telecollaboration in University Education

21-23 April 2016

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Plenary Speakers

Professor Celeste Kinginger

Celeste Kinginger a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), where she teaches basic courses in second language acquisition and education as well as seminars on a variety of topics, most recently, Narrative Approaches to Multilingual Identity, Student Mobility and Language Learning, Second Language Pragmatics, and Approaches to Language in Use. She is affiliated with the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research, funded by the United States Department of Education, and with the Center for Language Acquisition in the University’s College of Liberal Arts. Her research has examined telecollaborative, intercultural language learning, second language pragmatics, cross-cultural life writing, teacher education, and study abroad. Her current work includes a study of the learning opportunities afforded to Chinese language students during mealtime interactions with host families in China, the design and testing of a model study abroad program for heritage learners of Spanish, and the development of a new doctoral seminar examining pathways toward advanced foreign language proficiency.

Professor Kinginger's keynote talk will be entitled "Telecollaboration and Student Mobility for Language Learning".

Professor David Little

David Little retired in 2008 as Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Trinity College Dublin. His numerous publications and conference presentations on the theory and practice of language learner autonomy have done much to shape international debate. He played a leading role in the Council of Europe’s European Language Portfolio project from 1998 to 2010, co-ordinated two ELP-related projects for the European Centre for Modern Languages between 2004 and 2011, and has been a member of several Council of Europe expert groups. As director of a language centre for thirty years he was closely involved in the use of new technologies to support language learning. CLCS developed an interactive video system in the 1980s and participated in an international project that pioneered the use of e-mail and MOOs in tandem language learning in the 1990s.

Professor Little's keynote talk will be entitled "Learner autonomy and telecollaborative language learning".

Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller-Hartmann

Andreas Müller-Hartmann is Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and the Director of the Institute for Foreign Languages at the University of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule), Heidelberg, Germany. He holds an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, USA, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Osnabrück, Germany. His research interests include task-supported language learning (TSLL), the use of technology in the EFL classroom, the development of intercultural communicative competence, and teacher education. He has co-written books on TEFL in the secondary classroom (2004) and task-supported language learning (2011 and 2013) (with Marita Schocker-v. Ditfurth), and TEFL in the primary classroom (2009) (with Michael Legutke and Marita Schocker-v. Ditfurth). He has co-edited books on qualitative research in foreign language learning and teaching (2001) and task-based language learning with technology (2008). He teaches TEFL, TSLL, CALL and American Cultural Studies.