the 90s and call
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The 90s and CALL
Important events that influenced the present condition and development of CALL
1995 - 1997
Windows 95 is introduced (September) Users are enabled to listen in real time;
RealAudio ATELL begins in Australia CALL Chorus appears, a CALL magazine
is edited in California DVD-ROM is announced
1995 - 1997
The RAPIDO report is published Murray Goldberg gets a grant to develop
web Course Tools (Web CT)
1995 - 1997
1996: The Power of CALL is published (Pennington)
Intel’s P6 chip (sixth generation, twice as fast as the Pentium) is introduced to the market
1995 - 1997
1997: First issue of the electronic journal Language Learning & technology (University of Hawaii)
1995 - 1997
1997: first issue of the e-journal ALSIC in France (Chanier)
Publication of Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Context and contextualization (Levy)
Release of OSCAR by Language Publications Interactive
1998: vintage year for CALL
The European speech Committee of STiLL 98: attended by scientific scholars and speech communities
1998: vintage for CALL
1998: WorldCALL Conference, organized by June Gassin at the University of Melbourne
WorldCALL book was originated from this conference (Swets & Zeitlinger)
1998: vintage for CALL
ICT4LT starts: Information and Communications Technology for Language teachers
Hot Potatoes development is revealed at the EUROCALL Conference in Leuven
1998: vintage for CALL
The MALTED project starts
DISSEMINATE is first presented at WorldCALL and EUROCALL
1998-2000: Spiritual Machines
Publication year of Age of Spiritual Machines (Ray Kurzweil)
Release of Pentium III Special issue of CALICO’s Tutors that
listen (speech recognition)
1998-2000: Spiritual Machines
First two-day InSTIL symposium, supported by CALICO, EUROCALL and ISCA
InSTIL journal comes out
1998-2000: Spiritual Machines
First DVD for language learning WebCT.com is launched