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Where do research and practice meet? Developing a discipline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Nina Garrett
Nina Garrett
Affiliation:
CTW Mellon Project for Language Learning and Technology, CT, USA
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The topic of EUROCALL '97, ‘Where research and practice meet’, is perhaps the most provocative and complex one in all of higher education. It would be interesting to recast the assertion that EUROCALL '97 is where research and practice meet as a more probing question: Where do research and practice meet? Unarguably, yes, at this conference: our program – the variety of presentations on practice, and on the research done on practice, and on theoretical research and the nature of research – makes that clear. But it is not only at this yearly gathering; research and practice also meet in the organization of EUROCALL, and for many of us in our daily professional lives. But we could push the question further and ask: do research and practice meet regularly and inherently in the profession of CALL? In the multimedia classroom or language center? In our materials? In cyberspace? in the mind of the learner? To most of those questions we would probably have to give, reluctantly, a negative answer.

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Information
ReCALL , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1998 , pp. 7 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1998

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