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Marie-Noelle Lamy

Professor of Distance Language Learning

The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies Department of Languages



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MN Lamy's publications are at  http://lamymn.wordpress.com/lamy-publications/


Mini-bio: teaching and research

From a background in linguistics, lexicology and discourse analysis, I went on to teach French as a foreign language when I came to The Open University to lead a team in charge of developing the University’s first ever programme of distance-taught languages. This programme used technology to assist the development of skills concerned with speaking in interaction (in this case, with others who were sometimes in distant countries or even continents). Media for achieving remote interaction increasingly include Internet-based communication systems allowing virtual tutorials to be conducted, and voice-supported collaborative work to take place, across distances. From 2000 to 2005, I oversaw the roll-out of one such system to 7000 language students at The Open University. My research, within the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology is directed at the pedagogical and epistemological implications of changes in the way that we learn, teach and communicate, now that we have such systems at our disposal.

Academic publishing activities

I am on the Editorial Boards of journals ALSIC, ReCALL, Language Learning and Technology and  Distances et Savoirs.

Research interests

Mediation of learning and teaching in Internet-based settings, learning conversations and peer learning in computer-mediated communication, the semiotics of multimodal environments and cultural practises related to their use, as well as corpus-building to facilitate research on learner interactions collected from such environments.


Mini-bio : enseignement et recherche

Après une formation en linguistique, lexicologie et analyse du discours, j’ai enseigné le FLE, puis la didactique des langues dans des contextes d’enseignement-apprentissage en réseau et à distance. Ce thème a trouvé dans ma carrière une double résonance : pédagogique et au plan de la recherche, au sein du laboratoire Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology de l’Open University. Les principaux instrument de la pratique langagière écrite-orale interactive à distance sont les dispositifs multimodaux permettant les rassemblements en ligne et les discussions en temps réel. De 2000 à 2005, j’ai dirigé le déploiement d’un tel dispositif en soutien des cursus de langues pour 7000 étudiants de l’Open University. Cette expérience est venue nourrir une réflexion qui se traduit par diverses publications et plusieurs projets en partenariat avec des universités, à l’international.

Activités d’édition

Je suis membre des Comités Scientifiques des revues ALSIC, ReCALL et Language Learning and Technology ainsi que de la revue Distances et Savoirs.

Thématiques de recherche

Médiatisation de l’enseignement-apprentissage interactif via les environnements multimodaux sur Internet, dialogues d’apprentissage notamment entre pairs, dans ces systèmes ; aspects sémiotiques et pratiques culturelles liées à l’utilisation de ces environnements ; travaux de construction de corpus destinés à faciliter la recherche sur les interactions en ligne.

 

 

Teaching Interests

From a background in linguistics I came to the Open University in 1991 to lead the team developing the University’s first ever distance-taught language degree, starting with French modules, later followed by German and Spanish. Italian is to follow soon.  Aimed at adult learners, these courses innovate in their mode of tuition, through real-time voice-over-Internet group conferencing. Teaching specialisms:  methodologies for the learning needs of distance-taught students and the use of teleconferencing tools in the development of language conversation skills.

Research Interests

Please provide details of your current research including research grants, recent publications, student supervision, measures of esteem etc.

In progress: ODIL project involving O.U. and four French universities, to study learner interactions online, in order to define interdisciplinary frameworks for research into second-language learning and to develop methods for analysing data from such environments.
End-of-project conference : 5-7 June 2007

Forthcoming 2007: visiting professorship to ENS Lyon.

Membership of Scientific Boards:
• ReCALL journal
• Revue d’Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d’Information et de Communication
• Distances et Savoirs (CNED-Hermès)
• Flinders University Languages Group Online Review (FULGOR)

 

Publications

Authored Book
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle and Hampel, Regine (2007). Online communication for language learning and teaching. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapter
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2013). “We don’t have to always post stuff to help us learn”: informal learning through social networking in a beginners’ Chinese group. In: Meskill, Carla ed. Online Teaching and Learning. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (In press).
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2013). Distance CALL online. In: Thomas, Michael; Reinders, Hayo and Warschauer, Mark eds. Contemporary Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Contemporary Studies in Linguistics. London: Continuum Books, pp. 141–158.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2012). Diversity in Modalities. In: Stockwell, Glenn ed. Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Diversity in Research and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 109–126.
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle and Flewitt, Rosie (2011). Describing online conversations : insights from a multimodal approach. In: Develotte, Christine; Kern, Richard and Lamy, Marie-Noëlle eds. Décrire la Conversation en Ligne : Le Face à Face Distanciel. Lyon, France: ENS Éditions, pp. 71–94.
Develotte, Christine; Kern, Richard and Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2011). Présentation. In: Develotte, Christine; Kern, Richard and Lamy, Marie-Noëlle eds. Décrire la conversation en ligne, le face-à-face distanciel. Lyon, France: ENS Editions, pp. 7–25.
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2011). "We Argentines are not as other people": collaborative learning online in an underserved country. In: Levy, Mike; Blin, Françoise; Bradin Siskin, Claire and Takeushi, Osamu eds. WorldCALL: International Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning (5). Abingdon: Routledge , pp. 257–274.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle and Goodfellow, Robin (2010). Telecollaboration and Learning 2.0. In: Guth, Sarah and Helm, Francesca eds. Telecollaboration 2.0: Language, Literacies and Intercultural Learning in the 21st Century. Telecollaboration in Education. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 107–138.
Goodfellow, Robin and Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2009). Introduction: a Frame for the Discussion of Learning Cultures. In: Goodfellow, Robin and Lamy, Marie-Noelle eds. Learning Cultures in Online Education. Continuum Studies in Education. London: Continuum Books, pp. 1–14.
Goodfellow, Robin and Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2009). Conclusion: Directions for Research in Online Learning Cultures. In: Goodfellow, Robin and Lamy, Marie-Noelle eds. Learning Cultures in Online Education. Continuum Studies in Education. London: Continuum Books, pp. 170–183.
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2008). Ce que cyber-parler veut dire: quels cadres théoriques pour l'analyse des conversations multimodales en réseau? In: Gerbault, Jeannine ed. La Langue du Cyberespace: de la diversité aux normes. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, pp. 91–104.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2006). Interactive task design: Metachat and the whole learner. In: Garcia Mayo, Maria del Pilar ed. Investigating tasks in formal language learning. Second Language Acquisition. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, pp. 242–264.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2003). Innovative practices in French monolingual learners’ dictionaries as compared with their English counterparts. In: Hartmann, R.K.K. ed. Lexicography: critical concepts. London, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, pp. 174–185.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2001). L’étude d’une langue vivante assistée par ordinateur: réflexion collaborative sur l’object d’apprentissage. In: Bouchard, Robert and Mangenot, Francois eds. Interactivité, interactions et multimédia. Notions en question (5). Ecole Nationale Supérieure Editions.
Journal Article
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle and Pegrum, Mark (2012). Special Issue Commentary: Hegemonies in CALL. Language Learning & Technology , 16(2), pp. 1–3.
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2012). Où va la distance par des temps agités? Réponses d’une organisation distancielle : l’Open University. Distances et Savoirs, 9(4), pp. 611–618.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2012). Click if You Want to Speak: Reframing CA for Research into Multimodal Conversations in Online Learning. International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE), 3(1), pp. 1–18.
Lamy, M. N. (2010). Apprentissage des langues médié par ordinateur: discours critiques sur l'outil. Le Français dans le monde, 48, pp. 135–149.
Mirza, Chahrazed and Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2010). Quel est le rôle des environnements audio-graphiques synchrones dans les interactions d’un cours de langue en ligne? Revue Internationale des Technologies en Pédagogie Universitaire, 7(1), pp. 47–67.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2007). La recherche-développement en didactique des langues: trois questions, trois ouvertures. In: Méthodologies de recherche. Notions en question. Cahiers de l'ACEDLE, 4 pp. 55–64.
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2006). Usages, contre-usages: nouvelles cultures des formations virtuelles. Education permanente, 169(4), pp. 79–88.
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2006). Conversations multimodales: l'enseignement-apprentissage des langues à l'heure des écrans partagés. Le français dans le monde, Recher(40), pp. 129–138.
Lamy, Marie-Noëlle (2004). Oral conversations online: redefining oral competence in synchronous environments. ReCALL, 16(2), pp. 520–538.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2003). Is there language teaching after global English? FULGOR (Flinders university languages group online review), 1(2), pp. 1–13.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle and Hassan, Xaviere (2003). What influences reflective interaction in distance peer learning? Evidence from four long-term online learners of French. Open Learning, 18(1), pp. 39–59.
Goodfellow, Robin; Lamy, Marie-Noelle and Jones, Glyn (2002). Assessing learners' writing using lexical frequency. ReCALL, 14(1), pp. 133–145.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (2001). Langues en ligne: Des outils pour les langues. Les Dossiers de l'ingénierie éducative(35), pp. 41–42.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle and Goodfellow, Robin (1999). Supporting language students' interactions in Web-based conferencing. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 12(5), pp. 457–477.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle and Goodfellow, Robin (1999). 'Reflective conversation' in the virtual language classroom. Language Learning and Technology, 2(2), pp. 43–61.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle and Goodfellow, Robin (1998). “Conversations réflexives” dans la classe de langues virtuelle par conférence asynchrone. Revue d'apprentissage des langues et des systèmes d'information et de communication ALSIC, 1(2), pp. 81–89.
Goodfellow, Robin and Lamy, Marie-Noelle (1998). Learning to learn a language – at home and on the Web. ReCALL, 10(1), pp. 68–78.
Lamy, Marie-Noelle (1997). The Web for French grammar: a tool, a resource or a waste of time? ReCALL, 9(2), pp. 26–32.
Crooks, Beryl and Lamy, Marie-Noelle (1995). Using combinations of video,aAudio, and print to teach french at a distance: A case study of the formative evaluative cycle. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 10(2), pp. 131–144.