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School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

Catherine Caws

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Professor

French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Contact:
Office: Clearihue C239
ORCID:
0000-0001-7661-1922
Credentials:
PhD (UBC)
Area of expertise:
Technology-mediated language learning and teaching; data-driven learning and corpus linguistics (Second language); teaching and learning in higher education; lexicology and lexicography

Bio

Catherine Caws has been teaching French language and linguistics at UVic since 2002.  Her research focuses on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and, more particularly, on learning design, learner-computer interactions and data-driven learning.  Her work is strongly influenced by constructivist and socio-cultural theories of learning, in particular activity theory (AT) as it relates to CALL.

Courses

Selected Publications

2021
Catherine Caws Book 1

Formation en langues et littératie numérique en contextes ouverts. Une approche socio-interactionnelle

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2016
Catherine Caws Book 2

Learner Computer Interactions: new insights on CALL theories and applications.

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Caws, C. Lousada, E. & Marra, A. (2019) Étayage en ligne et développement de la conscience métacognitive. Alsic: Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d’Information et de Communication 22 (2). 

Lightbourn, R. & Caws, C. (2021) Une analyse sociocritique de l’usage de Twitter pour le développement de compétences socio-interactionnelles et numériques. Éducation et francophonie, 49, 2. 

Ollivier, C., Jeanneau, C., & e-lang citizen team. (2023). Developing digital citizenship  and language competences (translated by Catherine Caws) Council of Europe. 

Hamel, M.-J. & Caws, C. (2024) Ergonomics in CALL design and teaching . The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, edited by Lee McCallum and Dara Tafazoli.

Selected Presentations/Talks

Perspectives on Second Language Learning and Teaching in Digital Contexts: Back to the Future. Keynote address presented at the Second Language Pedagogy Conference, U of Guelph, May 15th, 2023.

With Ollivier C. et al. Creating pathways between digital citizenship and language education: Defining a pedagogical framework and its accompanying tasks. Webinar. European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe, Nov 10, 2022, Graz, Austria. www.ecml.at/elangcitizen

Réflexions sur l’ingénierie pédagogique et la conception de scénarios pour l’apprentissage et l’enseignement des langues en contexte numérique. Projet Lingu@num, UC Louvain-La-Neuve, Nov 15, 2021.

Language learning in open and participatory digital contexts. Keynote address presented at the Teaching Additional Languages Online Conference, U of Calgary, March 6th, 2021. Online.

Current Research Projects/Information

Les outils de traduction automatique dans l’enseignement-apprentissage du français langue seconde: analyse des usages et formation des enseignant·e·s. ACFAS Bourse de mobilité. Programme de recherche en cooperation dans la francophonie Canadienne.

Adaptive instruction in technology-mediated language-learning activities.

Digital citizenship through language education. 2020-2022. Associate partner. 

Digital literacy for the teaching and learning of languages. 2016-2019. Associate Partner.