Marie-Josée Hamel

Awards and achievements

  • 2012 – University Research Chair: “New technologies and Computer Assisted Language Learning”

Marie-Josée Hamel

Associate Professor, Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa

Member of the FGPS (Faculty of Graduate and Post-Graduate Studies) and thereby authorized to supervise theses.

Director of the Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL) of OLBI

Office: 70 Laurier Avenue East, Room 105
Telephone: 613-562-5800 ext. 3994
Télécopieur : 613-562-5743
Email: marie-josee.hamel@uOttawa.ca

Biography

Dr. Marie-Josée Hamel has been involved in CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) teaching, research and development since 1994. She has worked at Centre for Computational Linguistics of UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) for ten years, namely as co-investigator of an EU funded NLP-based CALL project called FreeText. She then took a position as Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the French Department of Dalhousie University and recently, at OLBI of the University of Ottawa. Her theoretical interests are in the contribution of linguistic and second language acquisition theories in CALL and applied ones, in the reuse of NLP (Natural language processing) and computer ergonomics technologies for CALL development purposes. Dr. Hamel is currently co-investigator of a SSHRC funded CALL dictionary project called "Dire autrement".

University Degrees

  • Ph.D., Language Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 2003;
  • M.A., Linguistique, Université de Montréal, 1994;
  • B.A., Linguistique, Université de Montréal, 1988.

Fields of Interest

  • Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL);
  • Design, development and evaluation of CALL interfaces; usability tests;
  • Learner-computer interaction analysis; learner corpus analysis;
  • Language technologies and linguistic engineering;
  • Pedagogical lexicography; vocabulary teaching and learning;
  • Advanced learners of French; post-secondary immersion students.

Ongoing Research

  • Usability tests in CALL development: Insights on the Learner-Task-Tool Interaction (SSHRC 2010-2013, avec Catherine Caws, University of Victoria, BC);
  • « Dire autrement »: vers un dictionnaire électronique de reformulation pour apprenants avancés du français langue seconde (SSHRC 2005-2009, with Jasmina Milicevic, Dalhousie University).
  • Writers in action! Modelling and scaffolding second language learning writing process at the computer (HEQCO grant 2012-2015, with Jérémie Séror, University of Ottawa and Chantal Dion, Carleton University).

Courses Taught

  • DLS3101 Educational Technology and Second Language Teaching;
  • DLS4900 Expérience pratique / Practicum;
  • FLS2513 W (hybrid mode) : Grammaire française niveau intermédiaire;
  • DLS3500 : Techniques d’observation de classe et recherche en milieu d’enseignement;
  • DLS3502 : Immersion française;
  • FLS2772 : Prononciation française.
  • DLS3501 : Technologies éducationnelles en didactique des langues secondes

Selected Publications

Books/Journals edited by author :

  • Caws, C., Hamel, M.-J., & Schulze, M. (Eds). (2011). Canadian CALL. Thematic Issue. CALICO Journal, 28(3). 180 p;

  • Hamel, M.-J., Milicevic, J. & Mopoho, R. (Éds). (2009). Actes du 32e colloque de l’Association de Linguistique des provinces atlantiques. Halifax, NS. Presses de l’APLA.

Refereed book chapters:

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2008). Natural Language Processing Tools in CALL. In D. Ayoun (Ed.), Studies in French Applied Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 63-96.

Refereed journal articles:

  • Hamel, M.-J. (to appear). Testing the usability of an online learner dictionary prototype: process and product oriented analysis. Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal;

  • Caws, C., Hamel, M.-J., & Schulze, M. (2011). CALL in Canada: Examples of Current Research. In C. Caws, M.-J. Hamel & M. Schulze. Canadian CALL. Thematic Issue. CALICO Journal, 28(3), 571-578;

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2010). Apprenants à la recherche de collocatifs dans les dictionnaires électroniques : analyse de l’interaction ‘apprenant-tâche-dictionnaire’ à l’ordinateur. Revue Linguistica Atlantica, 31, 1-25;

  • Hamel, M.-J. & Caws, C. (2010). Usability Tests in CALL Development: Pilot Studies in the Context of the Dire autrement and the FrancoToile Projects. CALICO Journal, 27(3), 491-504;

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2010). Prototype d’un dictionnaire électronique de reformulation pour apprenants avancés de français langue seconde. Cahiers de l’APLIUT, XXIX(1), 73-82;

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2009). Maquette d’interface d’un dictionnaire électronique pour apprenants du FLS. In M.-J. Hamel, J. Milicevic & R. Mopoho (Éds). Actes du 32e colloque de l’Association de Linguistique des provinces atlantiques. Halifax, NS. Presses de l’APLA, 74-84;

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2008). Bon Patron – Parcours pédagogique critique du logiciel. Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 11, 123-131;

  • Hamel, M.-J. & Milicevic, J. (2007). Analyse d’erreurs lexicales d’apprenants du FLS : démarche empirique pour l’élaboration d’un dictionnaire d’apprentissage. Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 10, 25-45;

  • Milicevic, J. & Hamel, M.-J. (2007). Un dictionnaire de reformulation pour apprenants avancés du français langue seconde. Revue de l’Université Moncton [Numéro hors série], 145-167;

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2006). Repenser l’enseignement des langues : comment identifier et exploiter les compétences. In J.-P. Bronckart, E. Bulea & M. Pouliot (éds). Éducation et didactiques. Paris : Presses Universitaire du Septentrion. Critique de livre. Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 62(4), 642-644;

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2005). Grammaire de texte en contexte d’ALAO : une année avec le didacticiel FreeText. Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 62(1), 221-233;

  • Simina, V. & Hamel, M.-J. (2005). CASLA through a Social Constructivist Perspective: Web-Quest in Project-driven Language Learning. ReCALL, 17, 217-228;

  • Handley, Z. & Hamel, M.-J. (2005). Establishing a Methodology for Benchmarking Speech Synthesis for Computer Assisted Language Learning. Language Learning and Technology, 9(3), 99-120;

  • Hamel, M.-J. (2012). Testing the usability of an online learner dictionary prototype: process and product oriented analysis. Computer Assisted Language Learning journal, 25(4), 339-365.

  • Caws, C., Hamel, M.-J., & Schulze, M. (Eds). (2011). CALL in Canada. Thematic Issue. CALICO Journal, 28(3). 180 p.

Refereed papers published in conference proceedings:

  • Hamel, M.-J. & Girard, M. (2004). Une exploitation pédagogique de la typologie des textes en ALAO. Actes de la Journée ATALA TAL et apprentissage des langues, Grenoble, 103-112;

  • Handley, Z. & Hamel, M.-J. (2004). Investigating the Requirements of Speech Synthesis in CALL with a View to Developing a Benchmark. Actes de la conférence InSTILL-ICALL, Venise, 71-74.