The 90s And Call

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)

ICT4LT starts: Information and Communications Technology for Language teachers
Hot Potatoes development is revealed at the EUROCALL Conference in Leuven

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)

First two-day InSTIL symposium, supported by CALICO, EUROCALL and ISCA
InSTIL journal comes out

First DVD for language learning
WebCT.com is launched

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The 90s And Call

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