Description: Proceedings of international symposium "Technology and Learning: Defining Quality in Research, Teaching and Practice" held at University of Limerick, May 2009.
Brief description: Dr Triona Hourigan is the ISSP Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society at the University of Limerick, where she teaches courses in language technologies, second language acquisition, contemporary French cinema and media. Her areas of research include multimedia CALL, blog writing and e-learning; Web2.0 and CALL. Dr Liam Murray is a Lecturer at the University of Limerick. His research interests include computer-assisted language learning with particular emphasis on multimedia and text summary writing techniques; corpora and discourse analysis and electronic games for SLA purposes. Elaine Riordan is a PhD student at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests include English language teaching and teacher education, corpus linguistics and computer assisted language learning.