Reviews

I’m enjoying life as a reviewer, even though my garage is now heaving with books I’ve reviewed over the years. Just been looking at the CD-ROM at the back of Oxford Word Skills, the new practice book by Ruth Gairns

I’ve just reviewed a new compilation of articles from International House World Organisation, called: Best Practice in Language Teaching: An IH Perspective. The last section consists of five articles on Technology, including Gavin Dudeney’s excoriating attack on multimedia courses, Michael Carrier on e-learning

“The use of new technologies in English language teaching has experienced an increment in the last years. However, very little has been published so far on the how-to aspect of technology integration in this context. Two recent books fill in

“One highlight of this course is the self-study DVD-ROM”. To read more from this extract from the Book of the month – The Business (Upper Intermediate), John Allison and Jeremy Townend, with Paul Emmerson (Macmillan) – see the latest ‘Reviews in

The latest CALL review has been posted to the Learning Technologies SIG website. It’s an unmissable issue……………….. Gavin Dudeney updates us on Second Life; Maurice Claypole revisits Hot Potatoes; Kevin Westbrook presages the beginning of the end for blended learning;Jason

Just stumbled across this review of our book on the English Teaching Professional site. ‘….should be a recommended buy for teachers and planners wanting to know more about what new technologies can offer’ Thanks to Viv.

Thanks to Guy Jackson for sending over this very interesting review of electronic dictionaries. The dictionaries reviewed here are CALD, Collins COBUILD, MED2, LDOCE and OAL Compass. The review appeared in Language Learning & Technology last Februray and is by Alfonso

CALL Dimensions: options and issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning M. Levy and G. Stockwell (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) 2006 ISBN: 9780805856347A  Practical Guide to Using Computers in Language Teaching J. de Szendeffy (University of Michigan Press) 2005 ISBN: 0472030485 CALL (computer-aided