Worldcall 3

Interview with Dr. Trude Heift, Keynote speaker

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Trude Heift Interview Transcripts Dr. Heift’s website can be found at http://www.sfu.ca/~heift/ WorldCALL 3 website: http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/modules/tinyd0/ Marcel: The first thing I asked her to do was to introduce herself and talk a little about her work and research areas. Prof. Heift: I was born and raised in Germany and after obtaining a bachelor’s degree and a teaching certification I taught for three years in California before moving to Canada where I completed a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree in linguistics. In 1998, I started a professor position in the linguistics department as SFU [Simon Fraser University], where I currently teach both German language courses as well as theoretical courses in linguistics, including courses on SLA and CALL. My main research interest lies in computer assisted language learning bridging applied and computational linguistics. I am interested in the design as well as the evaluation of intelligent language tutoring systems. These are computer environments for second la