WorldCALL aims to enhance computer-assisted language teaching and learning in the global community by bringing educators from around the world together. As an international association, WorldCALL: • Provides a worldwide focus for the promulgation of innovative research, development and practice in the areas of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in education and training; • Enhances the opportunities for knowledge and skills transfer to those nations currently underserved in the areas of CALL; and • Serves as a forum for exchanging information and forging professional relationships among educators, researchers, and industry leaders across the world.Role of technology promoting a genuinely global perspectiveAs the world-wide organisation that is concerned with CALL in all of its manifestations technology enhanced language learning, network-based language learning, and information and communication technologies for language learning, WorldCALL is ideally placed to highlight the benefits of new technologies. It plays a leading role in providing a forum for: discussing the application of state-of-the-art technologies for language learning, developing the virtual classroom, supplying professional training and development for teachers and, significantly, giving developing countries, through sponsorship, the opportunity to project their culture worldwide and to become involved in the application of new technologies in language learning.

Associate Professor of English in the Department of Applied Linguistics.

- Co-opted member of the EUROCALL Executive Committee (1994-1996)- Elected member of the EUROCALL Executive Committee (1996-2000)- Vice-president (2000-2005)- President (2005-2011)- 1995 EUROCALL conference organiser in Valencia (Spain)- 2009 EUROCALL conference organiser in Gandia (Valencia, Spain)