What Makes Students Click: Computer Environments for Language and Culture Learning

Dorothy M. Chun is Professor of German and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She edits the online journal Language Learning and Technology and is currently director of the Ph.D. Emphasis in Applied Linguistics at UCSB. Her areas of research involve second language acquisition (L2 phonology and intonation, L2 reading and vocabulary acquisition). She has conducted studies on cognitive process in learning with multimedia and has developed CD-ROMs and websites for language acquisition.