Call-IS Computer-Assisted Language Learning Interest Section TESOL Authoring Systems

Gallery of Writings by
Roger Kenner

This page features some of the documents created by Roger Kenner over the years. These documents are cited for historical reasons. None are up-to-date. (A ruling by my former employer, Concordia University, prevents me from listing any documents produced in the course of my work there.)

• CALL-IS: Computer Assisted Language Learning Interest Section of TESOL
  (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
  Latest Update: 2003
  I was a founding member of this special interest section within TESOL, back in 1984, 85 and served as chair of the group in 1986. I served as software librarian for CALL-IS during the early Nineties, until CD-ROMs and the Web made this position redundant. I was for several years the historian of the organization (hence one of the documents below.) CALL-IS has remained a very active sub-group within TESOL and recently celebrated its 25th anniversary at the TESOL Converntion in Denver, Colorado in 2009.
  
  
  • A History of CALL-IS (up to 2003)
  • The Founding of CALL-IS

   

• Thesis: Authoring Systems
  Latest Update: 1986
  Computer-Assisted Language Learning was my first professional interest, and within that the concept of authoring system. This became the subject of my master's thesis in 1986. I continue to work with the modern heir of those early authoring systems, now in the form of learning management systems (LMS) such as Moodle.
  
  
  • Master's Thesis (Roger Kenner, 1986): The Effects of the Formal Features of Language Learning Activities on the Selection of Authoring Systems