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From: Deirdre Hetherington <[log in to unmask]>
With apologies for cross-postings
Dear Colleague,
The Language Centre at Queen's University Belfast has recently
been awarded funding from the Northern Ireland Regional Initiatives
Fund to establish and maintain a website which will seek to
promote and advance the use of computer assisted language
learning in higher and further education in the UK. The HECALL
(Higher Education Computer Assisted Language Learning) website
will provide a global showcase not only for all UK language centres
but also for academic disciplines involved in computer assisted
language learning.
HECALL will be an information portal on the larger HERO (Higher
Education and Research Opportunities) website. HERO, a HEFCE
funded project, aims to be the primary Internet portal for all Higher
Education in the UK. This facility on the World Wide Web will
promote the services, activities and opportunities provided by UK
Higher Education to a global audience. HERO will act as a conduit
to guide users to the most relevant Internet sites from across the
Higher Education sector and which will meet their specific needs.
The target audience for HECALL includes existing and potential
students; those involved with teaching, training and life-long
learning; industry and commerce; and the policy, funding and media
sectors.
Although managed and coordinated by the Language Centre at
Queen's University, the HECALL portal offers a unique opportunity
for all involved in language teaching and learning in the UK to
showcase and discuss with a wide audience. Its success will
depend to a large extent on the information provided by you and as
such, we welcome contributions and queries from all those involved
in the practice and development of CALL within the UK Higher
Education sector.
We are distributing, by post, leaflets which give background
information on the HECALL project and questionnaires which we
ask you to distribute to your colleagues in the Language
Centre/Language Resources Area and Languages Departments.
The purpose of the questionnaire is to garner information on CALL
facilities and research interests in universities and colleges. We
would appreciate the return of completed questionnaires within two
weeks.
Following receipt of completed questionnaires the HECALL
Information Officer, Deirdre Hetherington, will be in contact with you
to discuss how your institution will be represented on the HECALL
website.
HECALL http://www.hecall.qub.ac.uk
Yours sincerely,
Pamela McIntyre
Language Centre Manager.
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Deirdre Hetherington
Information Officer
HECALL Project
Language Centre
The Peter Froggatt Centre
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Telephone: 02890 335105
Fax: 02890 335493
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