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Friday 12 November 2010
Afternoon Session
Room A - 14:30 – 16:30
ICT Based Language Teaching Solutions

Moderator: Antonia Paín – University of Extremadura (Spain)

DEAL TOI: A Second Language Learning Proposal through E-Learning Addressed to Deaf People
Stefano Penge – Lynx (Italy)

Methodological Toolsets for Internet-Based Language Learning
Katerina Makri – University of Athens (Greece)

The New Disabilities of ICT
Giovanni Torrisi – Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo” (Italy)

Text Messages: a First Step towards Mobile Learning
DePryck, K.; Van Riel, G.; Onsea, W.; Laurent, K.; Vermeiren, G.; De Vos, H.; Willems, E., Van Heurck, D. – CVO Antwerpen-Zuid (Belgium)

The Potential Impact of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning on Women and Girls in Africa: A Brief Literature Review
Ronda Zelezny-Green – University of Massachusetts at Boston (United States of America)

MobLang— Learning Foreign Languages via Mobile: Technical Requirements
Tatjana Taraszow – Cyprus Neuroscience & Technology Institute (Cyprus)

Room B - 14:30 – 16:30
Languages for Business and Vocational Purposes

Moderator: Jan Strybol – Het Perspectief (Belgium)

Developing Online Resources for Learning Scottish Gaelic: Turning compliance into opportunity
Donella Beaton - Cànan, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (United Kingdom)
Ian Hunt - Edinburgh Napier University (United Kingdom)
David Cannon - Caledonian MacBrayne (United Kingdom)

Testing English For Specific Purposes In Science (Tespis)
Walter Zeller - Astyle Linguistic Competence (Austria)

Scientific Language Learning and ICT for the Real World
Tomasz Raczka - Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

Corpus Concordancing in Teaching Academic Discourse Writing to Medical Students
Ewa Donesch-Jezo - Medical College at Jagiellonian University (Poland)

E-teaching - a wild card for vocational curricula
Anna Maria Giagnoni - CIPAT (Italy)

Hands on - an Initiative for the Development of ESP Teaching and Learning
Paola Gherardelli - ISIS Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)

Room C - 14:30 – 16:30
Translations and Innovative Language Teaching and Learning Methodologies

Moderator: Luisa Panichi – University of Pisa (Italy)

Can Machine Translation Help the Language Learner?
Ignacio Garcia - University of Western Sydney (Australia)

ICT for Translation and Interpreting - The Relevance of New Technologies for the Training of Expert Linguists
Fanny Chouc - Heriot Watt University (United Kingdom)

Destination Reading: a Challenging Localization Project
Noelia Jiménez – educaLine (Spain)

Innovative Tools (Mobile Phones, Internet, etc) for Foreign Languages Learning and Teaching in Information Society
Mateusz Czepielewski - Warsaw Academy of Computer Science Management and Administration (Poland)

New Ways of Language Learning for Blind or Visually Impaired Children and Teenagers
Antonio Quatraro - UICI Florence (Italy)
Mario Paiano - Centro Machiavelli (Italy)



Coffee Break 16:30 - 17:00

Room A - 17:00 – 18:00
ICT Based Language Teaching Solutions

Moderator: Ignacio Garcia - University of Western Sydney (Australia)

Traditional and Computer-Based Evaluation of Preschoolers’ Oral Language in Greek – A Review of the Literature
Eugenia I. Toki – University of Ioannina, TEI of Epirus, Ioannina (Greece)

Web 2.0 Audio Tools for Online Language Learning: Teaching Method Issues
Bojan Lazarevic – University of Nebraska (United States of America)

Exploring the Potential of Dialogical and Trialogical Systems in Language Learning: Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 Applications in FL Writing Proficiency Courses
Carola Strobl - University College Ghent (Belgium)
Torsten Leuschner - University College Ghent (Belgium)