Books by Maria Cristina Calle Martinez
Language learning apps have exploded in a few short years but are they any good?
Technical reports by Maria Cristina Calle Martinez
RUBRICS CREATED BY THE ATLAS GROUP FOR THE EVALUATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRACTICE APPS WITHIN TH... more RUBRICS CREATED BY THE ATLAS GROUP FOR THE EVALUATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRACTICE APPS WITHIN THE SO-CALL-ME PROJECT
Papers by Maria Cristina Calle Martinez
Encuentro Journal, 2022
First of all, we, the editors, need to apologize for the delay in this year’s publication. The ed... more First of all, we, the editors, need to apologize for the delay in this year’s publication. The editorial team this year has been fighting against a number of issue and we want to express our sorrow to those all over the world who have lost those most beloved ones in this COVID-19 Pandemia. Let’s hope that this year will be better. In relation to this volume, we had a large amount of rejections since our interest is to improve the quality of the journal in just about two years including a much earlier publication date. Thus, this year we will be accepting papers until June 30. We understand this may limit the number of incoming papers, but we definitely will jump further into a higher quality journal that puts Encuentro Journal in the international place that it really deserves. Six articles published in this issue cover three main areas of interest: first, language learning and methodology are in focus; next, new approaches to improve English writing and oral skills. Finally, the la...
Mobile Assisted Language Learning (or, simply, MALL) is gradually gaining ground in the field of ... more Mobile Assisted Language Learning (or, simply, MALL) is gradually gaining ground in the field of education, as it supports (1) blended learning (Bueno y López, 2013; Rodríguez et al., 2012); (2) ubiquitous learning (Peng et al., 2009); and (3) a learning method that is usually also practical, interactive, adaptive, dynamic and deeply rooted in daily socio-cultural situations and contexts (Kukulska-Hulme, 2012; Pareja et al., 2013). In this paper, we present BusinessApp, a particular mobile application we have recently developed. BusinessApp uses a solid pedagogy to help its users create and perform successful business presentations. The potential users of this application are professionals and students in general, since business presentations in English are an almost compulsory and essential activity in most professional environments nowadays. BusinessApp contains selfevaluating (automatically corrected) exercises and is intended to be a natural and interactive tool. This will allow...
Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras, 2016
Rubrics, or documents for standardized assessment have been generalized in education in the past ... more Rubrics, or documents for standardized assessment have been generalized in education in the past decade, and several benefits can be drawn from their use: a more objective assessment, a clear understanding of the criteria used, a homogenization of expectations and desirable features, etc. Thus, there have been several attempts to create rubrics for evaluating educational apps (see, for example, Avatar Generation, 2012 or Santiago, 2012) but not much has been done specifically in the field of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT). Our contribution seeks to fill that gap by presenting a rubric which includes criteria that are educational but also linguistic...
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy, 2015
Proceedings of EUROCALL 2013, 2014
In this short paper, we present some initial work on Mobile Assisted Language Learning (hencefo... more In this short paper, we present some initial work on Mobile Assisted Language Learning (henceforth, MALL) undertaken by the ATLAS research group. ATLAS embraced this multidisciplinary field (that cuts across Mobile Learning and Computer Assisted Language Learning, henceforth, CALL) as a natural step in their quest to find learning formula for professional English that adapt to the changing profile and needs of our modern society. A needs-analysis undertaken by group members highlights the way in which professionals need to have language learning activities available on their mobile devices. The SO-CALL-ME project has been established to enable such MALL apps, designed and developed within the ATLAS group, to be studied with real users to explore the way in which they can improve their oral language skills. Here one such app, ANT – Audio News Trainer, is presented as an example of the development being undertaken.
20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future, 2013
Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Learning, Teaching and Educational Leadership, Dec 2013
Mobile learning is without any doubt the next step in the evolution of educational technology as ... more Mobile learning is without any doubt the next step in the evolution of educational technology as it offers
modern methods of support to the process of learning through the use of mobile instruments. However,
although there are a huge number of educational applications in the market at the moment, the
educational value of many of them is rather questionable.
The final aim of the SO-CALL-ME ((Social Ontology-based Cognitively Augmented Language Learning
Mobile Environment) (FFI 2011-29829) research project is to design and create EFL mobile applications
that successfully combine technical skills and a solid pedagogy. In this light, the present study is the third
phase of a line of research which started in 2012. In the first phase 67 MALL applications in the context of
EFL were assessed by means of a rubric not on their technical features but on their pedagogic goals. The
results gave us an idea of the qualities and limitations of the apps examined. In the second phase, a
quality guide was created as the basis for a more elaborate evaluation rubric. Out of the EFL apps
previously analyzed with the first rubric, we chose four that fulfilled the features considered most
important for the apps to be developed in a final stage of the research project. In the third phase, a rubric
was used to evaluate the linguistic adequacy of EFL apps for listening. The present study offers the
evaluation of a higher number of apps using the rubrics created in phases 2 and 3 in order to corroborate
the first impressions as a final step before using the quality guide for the creation of EFL applications.
Conference Presentations by Maria Cristina Calle Martinez
Ways and Modes of Human Communication. Actas del XXVII Congreso de AESLA, 2010
Books and chapters by Maria Cristina Calle Martinez
The development and the evolution of digital information technologies have orches-trate... more The development and the evolution of digital information technologies have orches-trated the most significant advance in the history of second language didactics, in particular, in its online and/or distance modalities. This new era of Distance Foreign Language Learning, overrun by digital learning, social and gaming tools, has caused an authentic education revolution, qualified by significant researchers as disruptive. The rapid changes in the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to education re-quire carrying out urgently studies that analyse rigorously the potential benefits of this new digital media adoption, sometimes thoughtless and even unjustified, in the area of second language didactics.
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modern methods of support to the process of learning through the use of mobile instruments. However,
although there are a huge number of educational applications in the market at the moment, the
educational value of many of them is rather questionable.
The final aim of the SO-CALL-ME ((Social Ontology-based Cognitively Augmented Language Learning
Mobile Environment) (FFI 2011-29829) research project is to design and create EFL mobile applications
that successfully combine technical skills and a solid pedagogy. In this light, the present study is the third
phase of a line of research which started in 2012. In the first phase 67 MALL applications in the context of
EFL were assessed by means of a rubric not on their technical features but on their pedagogic goals. The
results gave us an idea of the qualities and limitations of the apps examined. In the second phase, a
quality guide was created as the basis for a more elaborate evaluation rubric. Out of the EFL apps
previously analyzed with the first rubric, we chose four that fulfilled the features considered most
important for the apps to be developed in a final stage of the research project. In the third phase, a rubric
was used to evaluate the linguistic adequacy of EFL apps for listening. The present study offers the
evaluation of a higher number of apps using the rubrics created in phases 2 and 3 in order to corroborate
the first impressions as a final step before using the quality guide for the creation of EFL applications.
Conference Presentations by Maria Cristina Calle Martinez
Books and chapters by Maria Cristina Calle Martinez
modern methods of support to the process of learning through the use of mobile instruments. However,
although there are a huge number of educational applications in the market at the moment, the
educational value of many of them is rather questionable.
The final aim of the SO-CALL-ME ((Social Ontology-based Cognitively Augmented Language Learning
Mobile Environment) (FFI 2011-29829) research project is to design and create EFL mobile applications
that successfully combine technical skills and a solid pedagogy. In this light, the present study is the third
phase of a line of research which started in 2012. In the first phase 67 MALL applications in the context of
EFL were assessed by means of a rubric not on their technical features but on their pedagogic goals. The
results gave us an idea of the qualities and limitations of the apps examined. In the second phase, a
quality guide was created as the basis for a more elaborate evaluation rubric. Out of the EFL apps
previously analyzed with the first rubric, we chose four that fulfilled the features considered most
important for the apps to be developed in a final stage of the research project. In the third phase, a rubric
was used to evaluate the linguistic adequacy of EFL apps for listening. The present study offers the
evaluation of a higher number of apps using the rubrics created in phases 2 and 3 in order to corroborate
the first impressions as a final step before using the quality guide for the creation of EFL applications.