Catherine Caws
University of Victoria Faculty Member, French Department and Director, DL2LLab, UVic
Victoria, British Columbia
Catherine Caws has been teaching French language and linguistics courses at UVic since 2002. Her research focuses on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and, more particularly, on learning design, learner-computer interactions and data-driven learning. Her work is strongly influenced by constructivist and socio-cultural theories of learning, in particular activity theory (AT) as it relates to CALL. She has authored many articles related to students’ success in higher education and runs a blog on “Teaching French in the 21st century.”