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

The 90s And Call

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