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WHILE ADVANCES IN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY offer new ways to think about and teach in the humanities and the social sciences, inadequate attention has been paid to the teaching of linguistics and the employing of various pedagogical models within the classroom. By contributing entries to the California Central Coast Online Dictionary (CCCOD), a database-supported Web site, university students learn a great deal about linguistics and lexicography. Such a project allows for consideration of several models for teaching in the information age: teaching as modeling, teaching as negotiation, and teaching as defamiliarization or disequilibrium. Using instructional technological tools such as the CCCOD provides opportunities for students to consider real-world language challenges. By describing speech communities through the creation of an online dictionary, faculty and students share in multifaceted interactivity and collaborative learning.
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John D. Battenberg is Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University. Along with devoting considerable time and energy to creating online resources for teaching linguistics and American literature, he serves as the Coordinator of both the English M.A. Program and the TESL Program. He has worked as an U.S. AID consultant, Fulbright professor, and U.S. State Department Academic specialist. His publications are in lexicography, language policy and planning, and English language teaching. He has also delivered lectures and workshops in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East on instructional technology in higher education.
Kathleen Margaret Lant is Professor of English at California State Hayward where she is Co-Director of Online Programs for the Division of Extended and Continuing Education. She served as Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University for 15 years and was College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Coordinator there as well. At California State Hayward, she plans and develops online programs, instructs faculty in the use of educational technology, and teaches the English and the Instructional Technology Departments. Her publications include works on Louisa May Alcott, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Stephen King, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, and instructional technology. Her edited collection on StephenKing—Imagining the Worst: The Representation of Women in the Work of Stephen King—was published in 1998. She is currently working on a book on traditional values and new technologies in teaching at the college level.
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Battenburg, J.D., Lant, K.M. Teaching linguistics and lexicography with online resources. J. Comput. High. Educ. 14, 3–20 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02940936
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