计算机辅助语言学习是应用语言学的一个新兴的、正在迅速发展的分支。《计算机辅助语言教学与研究》对计算机辅助语言学习进行了全面概述，对与其相关的一些科研项目进行了步骤指导，以软件、网站等形式为读者提供了该领域内丰富的资源，并附有术语表。

本书的主要内容及结构如下：计算机辅助语言学习概述(包括发展历史、主要技术及应用)计算机辅助语言学习在科研及教学中的地位，计算机辅助语言学习的相关研究可供借鉴和参考的信息资源及术语本书旨在通过上述内容向研究者介绍这一领域的研究课题及现状，为教师进行计算机辅助语言教学提供借鉴和帮助。

General Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section I  Key concepts

The emergence of CALL

The emergence of CALL

Technology driving CALL

The changing focus of research in CALL

Summary

A brief history of CALL

CALL in the 1950s and 1960s

Simulations

CALL in the 1970s and 1980s

CALL in the 1990s

Summary

Hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia

Hypertext

Hypermedia

Multimedia

Antecedents of multimedia

Science fiction and CALL

The printed book and CALL

Applications to general learning

Applications of multimedia to language learning

Summary

Eight CALL applications

Word processing

Games

Literature

Corpus linguistics

Computer-mediated communication resources

Adapting other materials for CALL

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)

Summary

Section II The place of CALL in research and teaching

Second-language Acquisition and models of instruction

Concepts in SLA, behaviourism and constructivism

Comprehensible input and output

Criticism of comprehensible input and output theory

Behaviourist and constructivist models of instruction

Behaviourism

Constructivism

The role of collaboration and negotiation of meaning

in the two models

Summary

Collaboration and negotiation of meaning

The place of collaboration in CALL

Structuring collaboration

Differences between collaboration and other terms

The range of collaboration and CALL

Collaboration at the computer

Benefits of collaborative learning at the computer

Collaboration, CALL and SLA

Collaboration at the computer as evidenced by discourse

Challenges to collaboration

Challenges to collaboration in a CALL context

Discourse that evidences challenges to collaboration

Summary

Defining a model of CALL

Defining model

The need for a CALL model

A model of current non-CALL language learning

Dunkin and Biddle's model in a CALL context

Various views of CALL

Teacher and pupil classroom behaviour: activities used

in CALL

A virtual classroom

Aspects of a CALL model

Summary

Theoretical and pedagogical concerns

Concerns for software development

Pedagogical concerns for classroom practice

Evaluating software

Learning and working styles

Evolving technology

Commercial software

Making better use of existing materials

Copyright and plagiarism

Viruses

Safety online

Technological have-nots

Summary

Section III Researching CALL

Current research interests

A new field: reporting CALL research

Approaches to research in CALL

The computer as a tool of research

The role of commercial publishers

Reviewing current studies: a survey

Conducting research

Action research

Summary

Research

Research context 1: The literature review

Research context 2: A pilot study

Research context 3: Corpus linguistics

Research context 4: Error analysis

Research context 5: The experiment

Research context 6: A case study

Research context 7: The survey

Research context 8: The ethnographic approach

Conclusion

Section IV Resources

    Glossary of key terms

    References

    Index