Douglas Canfield

Knoxville, Tennessee Area United States

Coordinator III, Language Resource Center at University of Tennessee

Education

My background is in French instruction via hybrid courses with significant online modules . My research explores music and videoclips as catalysts for the Chomskyan "Language Acquisition Device", the creation of discourse and gaming communities for language instruction and research, and the leveraging of open-source and low-affect technologies in language resource centers. I am a member of the International Assocation for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Supervising a fine team of student assistants, I aim to foster the use of technology for instruct...